problems - screen goes black then reboots

[Guest]

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Made a new PC, Gigabyte k7 Triton with a AMD3200,
Maxtor 80gig IDE drive, ATI all in wonder Radeon.

I'm running WINME which I used on my old system.

I can use the pc for a while but for no reason the screen
will go black, no signal to my screen. I hit escape and
then the pc will (sometimes) reboot itself.

I was ordering some stuff online and as I filled out the
checkout form the PC went black on me.

Never had this before with previous pc's I've built!!

Can anyone help?

TIA

MATT UK

 

[Charles]

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Power supply is underpowered.

Monitor is bad.

Files are corrupt in the OS.

You definitely should get rid of the WIN ME. Win98 SP2 is a better OS
than WinME!

This could easily be the WinME. ME has the option to revert to a
previous setting like WinXP. You might try that!

>Made a new PC, Gigabyte k7 Triton with a AMD3200,
>Maxtor 80gig IDE drive, ATI all in wonder Radeon.
>
>I'm running WINME which I used on my old system.
>
>I can use the pc for a while but for no reason the screen
>will go black, no signal to my screen. I hit escape and
>then the pc will (sometimes) reboot itself.
>
>I was ordering some stuff online and as I filled out the
>checkout form the PC went black on me.
>
>Never had this before with previous pc's I've built!!
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>TIA
>
>MATT UK
>

 

[Guest]

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"*TrappedUser*" <trappeduser31@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:40e88fc9$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
> Made a new PC, Gigabyte k7 Triton with a AMD3200,
> Maxtor 80gig IDE drive, ATI all in wonder Radeon.
>
> I'm running WINME which I used on my old system.
>
> I can use the pc for a while but for no reason the screen
> will go black, no signal to my screen. I hit escape and
> then the pc will (sometimes) reboot itself.
>
> I was ordering some stuff online and as I filled out the
> checkout form the PC went black on me.
>
> Never had this before with previous pc's I've built!!
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> TIA
>
> MATT UK
>
>

WILD GUESS . . . you recycled the case and power supply from a previous
system, right? If not, sounds like the brand new power supply is WAY
under-sized. -Dave

 

[Guest]

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Charles <LastBoyScout@whitehouse.gov> astounded us with:
news:3e9he09f8b4hr1ue5mudl5hbmjrgrs7etl@4ax.com:

> Power supply is underpowered.
>
> Monitor is bad.
>
> Files are corrupt in the OS.
>
> You definitely should get rid of the WIN ME. Win98 SP2 is a better OS
> than WinME!

Win Me has a couple of faults, it's driver database is limited, and it is
lousy as an upgrade, but as a clean install, it's fine, and fast.

 

[Guest]

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"Dave C." <mdupre@sff.net> wrote in message
news:2krhmrF5jmduU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "*TrappedUser*" <trappeduser31@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:40e88fc9$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
> > Made a new PC, Gigabyte k7 Triton with a AMD3200,
> > Maxtor 80gig IDE drive, ATI all in wonder Radeon.

>
> WILD GUESS . . . you recycled the case and power supply from a previous
> system, right? If not, sounds like the brand new power supply is WAY
> under-sized. -Dave
>
>

Wild but very WRONG, every upgrade I buy a new case with power supply.

As for the monitor, it;s a brand new Dell monitor.

Winme is slightly better than Win98SP2 which is an
OS I happen to like, in fact I was running it when the
problems started but I have got WinME up because
Win98 isn't very good with the latest Nortons package.

I have checked the Bios, even updated it.