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Screen flashing and freezing.
Hi!
I recently had to reinstall 7, because the computer kept crashing in the middle of the simplest things. Say, I'd be reading a Wikipedia article, or watching a YouTube video, or playing a game, and the screen would all of the sudden start flashing for a few seconds, then it would just go black (70% of the time.) On occasion, it wouldn't go black, but instead becomes the color of the most prevalent color on the screen. Ex: I was playing a game, and took a look at the map, which was mostly yellow. At that moment the screen would become yellow and freeze, not letting me move my mouse or CTRL+ALT+DEL. Sometimes a blue crash screen would appear, sometimes it would just restart on its own.
So, anyway, I realize reinstalling Windows has little to do with the above problem, but I was hoping it would fix it, and also I needed a new start, since my organizational skills were pretty bad before. Once reinstalled, I had updated almost everything possible, via Windows Update, or manually.
At first, I thought my wishes were fulfilled, because my PC was running faster and more smoothly than ever before. (I did have a little hiccup with sound card, but that's behind me now.) But, no. The black screen happened again today. That was such a low blow I wanted to jump off the balcony... I decided that the only thing I haven't updated was the BIOS, and, true, it was last updated in August 2010, 3 months before I got this PC. That hasn't helped one bit - screen's still flashing and freezing.
Also, I've just noticed that after a few flashes the computer doesn't freeze at first, but the mouse pointer either disappears altogether or becomes thin vertical dotted line. But it still freezes after a few minutes. That's something new, but not an improvement. Hopefully that helps you...
You can probably find out my system specs in the BSOD report I provided, but here they are anyway:
CyberPower PC Gamer Ultra GUA 260
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64
Motheboard: ASUS M4N68T-M V2 (ASUS - Motherboards- ASUS M4N68T-M V2)
Processor: AMD Athlon II x4 640 3.00GHz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670 (ATI Radeon)
I'm angry, I'm tired, and I just want to put this whole thing behind me now. Please help me do just that.
PS: It just happened again. A quick flash or two, mouse pointer becomes a dotted line, and screen goes white (doesn't happen a lot, but has before) after 1-2 minutes. I was running 16-bit True Color this time, but apparently that makes no difference.