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What is happening to my PC, is it trying to crash?

Asked by Steven D. Shown

Ever so often, for no apparent reason that I can see, my screen goes fully to black and white and my PC becomes unresponsive for a few seconds, then the color comes back to normal and the PC starts responding again. This happens every day to every other day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Does this mean that my computer is trying to crash? What is happening to it? Could it be something wrong with some part of my hardware?

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

sounds more like your graphics card is on its last legs.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

you can install clamav and test for virii as well.

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Steven D. Shown (stevenshown90) said : 		#3

Thank you. I installed clamav and tested for virus's, but it said that I had 10 viruses detected, but they were all on my windows system, and my virus protection on windows says I have no viruses. The only thing I can figure is that clamav is seeing my windows files as possible virus. Other than that, I will try a new graphics card, as I know my onboard graphics that I am using now are not of that great quality. Hopefully that will solve this issue. It's not a serious problem, but it does get annoying after a while. I have noticed that it only does that when the processor is excessively busy, such as when I am loading some web pages, etc.