hi
this post mirrored my own pc concerns although the causes might be light years apart?
had a lot of pc grief the past 48 hours with a Dell Inspiron 531 Vista [AMD 64 Athlon x2]. It seems the graphics card [Nvidia GeForce 6150] had driver problems and caused my pc to crash during a video editing session - and then crash repeatedly afterwards. a friend put me onto a 'driver fix' program which seems to have sorted the issue, but if i leave the pc to idle now i get an electronic 'click' and turn to face 'screen black', very similar to what was being discussed here?
this does not seem to be a crash because the harddrive pilot light is still active, but i have no visuals, certainly no screen saver: is the pc going into 'hibernation mode' perhaps?
wonder if it has reset itself into something like this because the resolution reset itself to a low figure - blanking out the monitor again - telling me that i was out of optimal settings - and i had to manually select the correct resolution (in Safe Mode) which restored the pc to relatively a-ok work mode.
but obviously 'screen black' concerns me since at times i do a lot of video editing and the screen folding on me during a lengthy video render would probably be a disaster
any ideas please? this is a seldom used pc so still relatively new: i would not have thought the x2 processor was overheating?
thanks
Ric
