re: blank screen flashing Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 10:40 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by quick69gto (850 messages posted) The easiest thing to try is a different monitor. Then try installing updated drivers from nVidia for both the graphics and nForce 430 chipset. After that, check your case for decent air flow. Your motherboard has no active (fans) cooling on it. It relies on case airflow for cooling it's hotspots (chipset, capacitors, etc.). This leads me to the 8500GT. It is acting like it too is heating up. Again, it may have a fan on it (check it too), but it relies on case airflow also so it can get fresh cool air. Clean all the dust out of the case with compressed air but be careful not to blow the fan blades off any fans that are mounted in the case. You also might want to look into adding more fans (quiet fans are best) if your case design will allow it. Good luck Written in response to: blank screen flashing (Tex: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:37 pm) Responses to this message: re: blank screen flashing (Tex: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 6:33 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] blank screen flashing (Tex: Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 6:37 pm) re: blank screen flashing (quick69gto: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 10:40 am) re: blank screen flashing (Tex: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 6:33 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum