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patula

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Hello all

The other day I was sitting there playing world of warcraft like any other day, when my PC just freezes and nothing works, so I do a hard boot.

I was using windows vista at this stage and every time the loading bar would come up, it would go away like windows was about to load and then it would just sit on a endless black screen. After going into safe mode and doing a system restore I was able to get in to windows once before it froze up on another game, I spent 2 days trying to get into windows before reformating to windows xp.

So, after reforamting and putting windows xp on, everything seemed fine, did my windows updates and all the updates for my mobo etc, had the pc running for about 6 hours with no problems, go to play world of warcraft and within 5 mins my pc froze again.

So back to the same problem, exept this time the bar loads and i get a blue screen that comes up sometimes, but its only up for about 1 second before windows restarts again. It just keeps going to the windows loading bar, will freeze for 2-3 seconds, contiue to load and then restart again by itself.

I left it on for about an hour of cycling through by itself but windows still wont load.

World of warcraft is on a 2nd HD that hasn't been reformated, I thought this might be the cause but my pc also froze when I was just browsing the net and had the same problem loading windows.

Any suggestions? because I'm a bit lost at the moment with what to do, the only other thing I can think of to be the cause would be my ram or gfx card dying? but I hope thats not the case.

Someone please help!
 
Artifacting (those random pixilated colors/shapes all over your screen) is a graphics issue. This could be bad drivers but you have done fresh installs of the OS and drivers so I doubt that is it. The graphics card could also be failing OR it may be overheating. When was the last time you cleaned the dust out of your system?