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my pc started to behave strangely afew months ago
all of a sudden the screen would go black(as if the screen was on but the pc off) and refused to return and the pc would not respond to any keyboard commands such as ctrl + alt + del.
i know that when the screen went off the pc also died as i have a datalogger which records data along with the time of entry and upon inspection the data stopped being entered when the screen went off.
to begin with this happened every couple of days but it gradually got worse to the point where it was happening every hour.
then out of the blue the pc refused to boot into windows at all.
i consulted a technician who thought a virus had corrupted the HDD and he reformatted it and the problem went away for a couple of weeks but again returned.
i sent the HDD to ibm and they sent me a new one but again it became unbootable.
i became suspicios of the video card(voodoo3 3000 agp) as on boot up the video card bios details kept flashing twice on the screen.
i removed the card and replaced it with an old ati and reformatted the HDD (the only way to get it back functioning)
the PC has worked without problem now for several months.
how could the graphics card do this to my HDDis there a bios update available on the net for a v3 3000?
do you think that flashing the video bios may solve the problem or is it more likely to be a component failure?the thing is i dont want to flash the bios only to let my HDD get corrupted again.
the card had worked for 2 years before the problem and i am quite fond of it even though 2D is suspect
thanks for reading such a long and boring problem!
all of a sudden the screen would go black(as if the screen was on but the pc off) and refused to return and the pc would not respond to any keyboard commands such as ctrl + alt + del.
i know that when the screen went off the pc also died as i have a datalogger which records data along with the time of entry and upon inspection the data stopped being entered when the screen went off.
to begin with this happened every couple of days but it gradually got worse to the point where it was happening every hour.
then out of the blue the pc refused to boot into windows at all.
i consulted a technician who thought a virus had corrupted the HDD and he reformatted it and the problem went away for a couple of weeks but again returned.
i sent the HDD to ibm and they sent me a new one but again it became unbootable.
i became suspicios of the video card(voodoo3 3000 agp) as on boot up the video card bios details kept flashing twice on the screen.
i removed the card and replaced it with an old ati and reformatted the HDD (the only way to get it back functioning)
the PC has worked without problem now for several months.
how could the graphics card do this to my HDDis there a bios update available on the net for a v3 3000?
do you think that flashing the video bios may solve the problem or is it more likely to be a component failure?the thing is i dont want to flash the bios only to let my HDD get corrupted again.
the card had worked for 2 years before the problem and i am quite fond of it even though 2D is suspect
thanks for reading such a long and boring problem!
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