PC technobrains - Help needed

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  1. Red

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    PC screen keeps blacking out after a few minutes. Screen goes black but PC still running. All I can do is either go into standby and reeboot, or switch off and start up again. Couple of minutes or even a few seconds and it all starts again. I have checked the monitor with another and it's not that.</p>

    Changed the graphics card, which seemed the obvious choice and it's not that.</p>

    Stuck now for next move or what to suspect next.</p>

    Any suggestions welcome.</p>
     
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    Play a long mp3 music track to see if your motherboard/chip/ram is faulty. Should keep playing if its the monitor/graphics.
     
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    Have you tried tunning in safe mode

    Should help locate if hardware or software problem - uses basic driver with minimal other software running - if it works fine you know its software - if it dies again its looking like a hardware problem
     
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    boot into safe mode (F8 while starting up and select safe mode). If it stays on in safe mode run a virus scan, if that fails try getting online and updating the graphics driver.
     
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    SNAP
     
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    OK maybe basic but

    Make sure your not set to shut down monitor in X minutes, or to go into sleep mode I'd turn em both off anyway. Alter your settings to something like 800 x 600 and see if it still happens, also lower the frequency of the output to maybe 60 Hz if its higher.

    mix and match the above and see if any help
     
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    Thanks so far everybody - I'm looking at everything you've suggested nt
     
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    i had that once on my laptop

    I did a total recovery...it came with a disc that sorted it, lost all data but the machine came back up on the settings it came from the shop with.bit drastic but worked
     
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