Beosboxboy, if you have time could you help? :) UPDATE: RESOLVED see last post!
trl:
Hmmm...so when the monitor was turning off that is the video card crashing? I thought it was just my game crashing. As far as the CC, I have tons of it, lol, but I haven't been downloading much as I have been trying to get rid of stuff I don't use. Also my game, neighborhood and lots load rather quickly. I was playing on a big lot but the house isn't real big, it has also been in my game for a long time and I have never had trouble with it.
After removing the 4 things I had D/L that week and posting here I remembered that I downloaded a lot from *cough* the exchange *cough*. Now I never download from there but I saw it in someones contest pics here and grabbed it, it was a cool lot. I removed the lot and checked my files using clean installer and didn't find anything unusual. I keep thinking that the lot corrupted my neighborhood somehow. It didn't say it required Seasons, which I don't have but I wonder if it indeed did need Seasons. I don't think I am ever going to know what actually happened. I am going in game tonight so I will see if all is ok still but I fear my short bit of playing the other night was just lucky.
trl:
Ok, now I have issues once again. Since I last posted, I have been using my ATI Radeon 9250 256mb card and have had no issues. Five days ago I thought I would try my new GE Force 7300 GT 512mb (?)card once again (system info is in the first post) since I was finished with all my contests. I created a new neighborhood as well as a related downtown neighborhood. I have 2 lots in the entire hood. I was furnishing a med. sized community lot using maxis items for easier game play and my computer once again went to the black screen, I was moving a maxis toilet stall when this happened. As usual when this happens I was unable to get my windows screen to come up to end task. I shut the computer down holding in the button, turned it back on and went back to the lot. A while later I was moving a maxis chair and it happened again; black screen. This time I did nothing as the light on my computer was indicating it was doing something. All of the sudden I got blue dots all over the screen and then for a moment my game came back and the screen quickly turned black again. I waited again and for a minute my monitor message came up saying "mode not suppoted" then went black again and nothing happened after that.
My question is this: What the heck is going on, lol! I am assuming that it isn't my game crashing since I got the screen back for a moment and my game was intact. What is crashing; my graphic card, my monitor or my game? I am unable to get any error message from whatever crashed because of my black screen. I sort of looks like my monitor turned off but the light on it was on. I really want to figure out what the issue is with this card because my game is much quicker. I believe we have the latest drivers installed. Again any ideas would be so greatly appreciated! :sad4:
caffeinated.joy:
If it doesn't happen with your old ATI card, but does with your new GE Force card, then it's possible the new card is faulty.
trl:
I thank you Caffinated Joy for your help! It is appreciated. :)
I found a thread started by Dese that seems a bit similar but she didn't respond if the problem had been resolved. Her thread can be found here .
Quote Beosboxboy from Dese's thread:
Dese - you will need to disable hyperthreading in BIOS it seems
Beosboxboy, could this be my problem as well?
Also, is this my card crashing or my monitor? I am very frustrated with this issue. I feel that it is my monitor crashing because of the things I mentioned in my post above Caffinated Joy's response but I really don't understand all this stuff. There isn't much technical support from this manufacturer that doesn't invole phone help for a fee, that I can find. My monitor is by MAG Technology. I attached more pics with info that may or may not be related about my monitor. I have tried changing/updating monitor drivers but there wasn't one for my model available. I know I may have to stick with my ATI video card but I really would like to use this GEForce if I can figure this out. NVidea hasn't been a lot of help either. I am sorry to keep posting on this issue but I am getting desperate! :smt106
kathy:
TRL have you checked your connector wire from the monitor to the pc.. try wiggling it a little and see if it goes to black. I have had that problem with a monitor and jiggling the wire would cause it to flick back and forth as well.
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