Hi,
For the past couple of months I've been having a reoccurring hardware problem.
My computer is on, I am adoing regular tasks like browsing or listening to music and then suddenly, the video card turns off.
Usually, it is accompanied by a stronger than usual sound of one of the fans inside the computer and then the computer will reboot, but there won't be any image on the monitor (the monitor is idling and does not receive any signal from the PC, windows restarts normally because I can hear the logon sound). After that, I need to press on the PC power button multiple times for my monitor (video card) to work again. I noticed that when the monitor shows no visibility upon rebooting, the fans are quite lound. On the other hand, on a successful boot when the screen will work fine, the fans are quiter.
My video card is Radeon X1950 PRO. I did not hace such problems before. I monitored the temperatures of the CPU and Video Card and opened the case to check if all cooling fans are working and they do. But one of the fans (video card, CPU or case fan) will be loud when the problem occrs, louder than on regular computer boot.
I am not sure if it is a video card problem or a CPU problem. Sometimes it takes for me to open the case, remove the video card and plug it back to achieve a proper boot when the monitor will receive a signal and work fine; other times like today, when this did not help, opening the case and removing the CPU and then putting it back helped.
For now, it works fine. I also did an update for all the drivers. Still, the video card can suddenly shut down so I came here for some suggestions or input as to what the problem might be.
Thanks.
For the past couple of months I've been having a reoccurring hardware problem.
My computer is on, I am adoing regular tasks like browsing or listening to music and then suddenly, the video card turns off.
Usually, it is accompanied by a stronger than usual sound of one of the fans inside the computer and then the computer will reboot, but there won't be any image on the monitor (the monitor is idling and does not receive any signal from the PC, windows restarts normally because I can hear the logon sound). After that, I need to press on the PC power button multiple times for my monitor (video card) to work again. I noticed that when the monitor shows no visibility upon rebooting, the fans are quite lound. On the other hand, on a successful boot when the screen will work fine, the fans are quiter.
My video card is Radeon X1950 PRO. I did not hace such problems before. I monitored the temperatures of the CPU and Video Card and opened the case to check if all cooling fans are working and they do. But one of the fans (video card, CPU or case fan) will be loud when the problem occrs, louder than on regular computer boot.
I am not sure if it is a video card problem or a CPU problem. Sometimes it takes for me to open the case, remove the video card and plug it back to achieve a proper boot when the monitor will receive a signal and work fine; other times like today, when this did not help, opening the case and removing the CPU and then putting it back helped.
For now, it works fine. I also did an update for all the drivers. Still, the video card can suddenly shut down so I came here for some suggestions or input as to what the problem might be.
Thanks.