Okay so the other day i was playing unreal tournament 2004, and i started it up fine but when the game loaded my PC made a weird noise like somethin shut off, but i didnt lose video, just everything froze. I could still move my mouse but thats it, i could'nt click anything. After i shut down my comp[uter and rebooted, I assumed it was a virus so i ran Norton 2004 and it got done with about 30,000 files and my computer made the same exact noise. This is where i became puzzled so i reformatted. Everything went smoothly but when i went to install my video card drivers, i had to rebooot, completely normal. I could see my BIOS load and i could see liek 3 seconds of Windows XP then my monitor lost signal and my computer made the same exact noise. I then switched video cards and now its works fine but i want to figure out what happened because my card is quite good. My system specs are:
AMD 3000+(stock cooling)
Abit NF7 motherboard
Radeon 9800 pro
40 Gigabyte 7200 RPM hard drive
768 MB of RAM(256+ 512)
AMD 3000+(stock cooling)
Abit NF7 motherboard
Radeon 9800 pro
40 Gigabyte 7200 RPM hard drive
768 MB of RAM(256+ 512)