monitor probs
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Could be any range of things - the "num lock" test is a good way of seeing if it's hard crashed, which in this case it has.
Firstly (and something you should do anyway) the easiest and cleanest - update all drivers, mostly directx, mainboard/chipset, graphics.
Then, as a first step of diagnosis, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer. Look for any events in the right hand pane with a red cross on and report them back to us. Those are application or system failures and will often have some more detail if you double click the description.
The system still has power, meaning you should check the normal internal connections - clean and reseat all the cards, memory etc and de-shit all the fans.
You might find that alone may solve the issue, of course check all the fans are spinning freely so theres no heat related problems.
If not, grab memtest86 and run that over to either diagnose or eliminate the memory as a culprit.
Failing that, take everything unnecessary out of the machine and run without them - i.e. sound cards, modems, tv cards, optical and floppy drives and just run windows without them all - if you have no crashes, you can start plugging things back in one at a time and keep going until it does.
Give all of those steps a try first then get back. There's so many possibilities of what could be causing this (yes, including power supply fault or discrepancy) so with some trial and error/process of elimination we should be able to get it sorted.
Firstly (and something you should do anyway) the easiest and cleanest - update all drivers, mostly directx, mainboard/chipset, graphics.
Then, as a first step of diagnosis, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer. Look for any events in the right hand pane with a red cross on and report them back to us. Those are application or system failures and will often have some more detail if you double click the description.
The system still has power, meaning you should check the normal internal connections - clean and reseat all the cards, memory etc and de-shit all the fans.
You might find that alone may solve the issue, of course check all the fans are spinning freely so theres no heat related problems.
If not, grab memtest86 and run that over to either diagnose or eliminate the memory as a culprit.
Failing that, take everything unnecessary out of the machine and run without them - i.e. sound cards, modems, tv cards, optical and floppy drives and just run windows without them all - if you have no crashes, you can start plugging things back in one at a time and keep going until it does.
Give all of those steps a try first then get back. There's so many possibilities of what could be causing this (yes, including power supply fault or discrepancy) so with some trial and error/process of elimination we should be able to get it sorted.
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Don't go deleting anything if you think you need it or not. There's obviously a problem either with your graphics drivers or your graphics card, so of course first thing you can do is get the latest drivers from Welcome to NVIDIA - Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Notebooks, Desktop PCs and that may indeed solve it 