Well not good news any longer, Browsing in the Skins and Themes library with SDC still partialy fries my monitor and makes my PC reboot. It happens when I start browsing the Library and I am in the thumbnail mode. As I scroll down and each thumb pops up, everything is fine at first, then the thumbs start showing distorted. Before I get a chance to shutdown SDC...Blink, The monitor goes black, Zap...My PC shuts down and then reboots. Sometimes my monitor kicks back on when my PC reboots, sometimes it lies dormant for a few minutes before coming back to life.

I am considering doing a Sys Restore, but I am not sure when it started happening. My other option is a Format and clean boot, which I dread!!

elvee seeks the wisdom of others for advice

elvee, what version of SDC are you using? I have to tell you though, I don't think a restore will do anything...it does not sound like a software problem. What graphic card and drivers are you using and how old is that monitor?

My monitor is a HP pavilion MX70, 17 inch.

Intel 82810E Graphics Controller with 32 Megs of shared memory.

My PC is two years old and I want to buy a new one but I don't have the funds right now

Intel 82810E Graphics Controller with 32 Megs of shared memory

I believe your monitor is fine, however I think the problem is the above. That's an 'onboard' controller and when you bring up that many graphics, it eats up your memory. While it should go to your swap file, if it causes a severe bottleneck all at once, your machine will re-boot. My guess is this doesn't happen at any other time.

You can try one thing...open Control Panel/Folder Option/View and check 'Do not cache thumbnails'. If it's already checked, then un-check it and try it.




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No it doesn't happen any other time. I will try what you said an see what happens.





It was unchecked by the way.

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Yeah, I figured it was, but sometimes Windows gets lost in it's own settings

Let me know if it works.....I guess if it doesn't, we'll just have to blow the damn thing up

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elvee searches for some explosive devices to attach to his clunky Box.

Nah...didn't work

Hummmmm....in Settings, what do you have checked under 'Preview Images'?

Checked, Checked, and Large

Un-check, Un-check and small

Nope...that just made it last a little longer before it flopped.

OK...one more thing before we get the dynamite out...look in Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Advanced and see what your page file is set to at bottom.

Page file set to 384 megs

Under change, my min is at 384 with my max set to 768
availabe space 11875 megs

System managed size unchecked...
No paging file unckecked...