Fade to...white??

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I have a new machine with Vista Biz. 1GB RAM, P4, 3 GHz, nVidia 256 MB EPCI
video card, SATA HDD. All of a sudden, about once a day the screen slowly
goes white..like the contrast is just gone. Can barely see icons in
background. At the same time, the little circle thingie keeps spinning
where the mouse pointer is and it is locked hard. Have to hold power
button down for 5 sec and hard reboot.

Any ideas?

JOhnS
 
HomeR said:
I have a new machine with Vista Biz. 1GB RAM, P4, 3 GHz, nVidia 256 MB EPCI
video card, SATA HDD. All of a sudden, about once a day the screen slowly
goes white..like the contrast is just gone. Can barely see icons in
background. At the same time, the little circle thingie keeps spinning
where the mouse pointer is and it is locked hard. Have to hold power
button down for 5 sec and hard reboot.
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If it's a brand new machine I strongly suggest returning it to the
manufacturer and asking them to fix it. You know, just like you would if a
brand new car started doing the automotive equivilent of this kind of thing.
 
What program are you running when it happens? Is the program running full
screen? That sounds like what happens when a program quits responding.
 
What program are you running when it happens? Is the program running
full screen? That sounds like what happens when a program quits
responding.
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Well, as usual I forgot to add something. It seems that it only does
this when I am running my Hauppage 950 TV, USB tuner. I think. I will
have to do some experiments when I get back to work Monday and see. Like
most intermittant issues, this may take a while. I will add more info to
this thred as time goes on. As far as returning the machine, I may have
to do that but since it is extremely important to my daily job, that will
be my last resort.

JohnS
 
Let us know. It sounds like an incompatible program taking up most of the
CPU time. Look for errors in the event logs.
 
Let us know. It sounds like an incompatible program taking up most of
the CPU time. Look for errors in the event logs.
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Well, better late than never. Had to run several programs in XP emulation
mode. Cured 90% of the issues.

JohnS
 
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