My screen will freeze every so often then go blank for a couple of seconds then go back to normal, and keep doing this every so often. Just bought a new monitor, so it's obviously not that. I just updated my graphics driver, so I don't think it's that. Do you think I need a new graphics card?
how old is your comp? usually you only need a gfx card if you're doing high intense gaming. do you get any error messages or does it just go whacky? could be the monitor actually (arrived faulty)
Well I originally got this windows error message : "This problem was caused by NVIDIA Graphics Driver", So I went to that companies site and DL'd the latest gfx driver. Everything seemed to be working fine for about a week, and now it's happening again with no error message and to a lesser extent than before.
I had a similar problem recently, but mine faded in color but didn't go totally blank, when I put a second monitor on my system so I went out and picked up another card and it seems to have resolved the problem. Don't know if our issue is one and the same, but a new card did the trick for me.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=38&name=Video-Cards-Video-Devices you can search on the side
make sure your monitor and video driver have the same refresh rate and also the monitor should have had its own driver so make sure that it installed and you remove the old driver completetly....you should actually remove the old driver first...hope that helps.
I picked one up at Frys for about 50 bucks. I'm also 99% certain that if you install it and find it's not the solution you can return it without penalty because it's hardware not software and typically does not have the same 10-15% restocking charge that things like computers, monitors may have. http://shop2.frys.com/product/5476069?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG It is a pci-e card though.
It sounds like it could be a heat issue. I would make sure all the fans are working before I would replace the card. It could be there is not enough air flowing through the case which is causing the computer to hiccup.
