So what part of my PC do I need to replace??

My computer has been working fine for about a year and a half, then suddenly, this morning my computer starts freezing in a number of different scenarios. here we go...

watching movies
using the internet explorer (????)
loading savegames for pretty much any game
my animated screen saver
loading windows media player (sometimes it can manage it)
any activity that seems to require even a little bit of graphics grunt

What happens in all situations is that the picture freezes and appears to go from 32 bit colour to like 256 colours, if there is sounds that freezes a few seconds later, and then stutters. Occassionaly the screen turns off or there is a blue screen with the windows error message, however it only stays for a few seconds and has considerable image noise.


this is what i have tested/tried so far
virus/spyware >>>> fine
graphics card fan >>>>> fine
system restore >>>>> did nothing
updated graphics drivers >>>> did nothing

I think that my graphics card has died, but I don't think this explains why internet explorer causes freezes or why the sound freezes.

PLEEEEAAAASE, any suggestions???

Re: Soooo what part of my PC do I need to replace??

Freezing could be memory. Go to search, type memory diagnostic and then take the test. Hope that this works out for you.

Re: Soooo what part of my PC do I need to replace??

Is this a Notebook?

Re: Soooo what part of my PC do I need to replace??

Its a desktop. great... now i can only turn the computer on in safe mode, otherwise the computer just blacks out before the welcome screen

Try those:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/65361-memory-diagnostics-tool.html?ltr=M

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html?ltr=S

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html?ltr=S

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html?ltr=S