problems - screen goes black then reboots

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Made a new PC, Gigabyte k7 Triton with a AMD3200,
Maxtor 80gig IDE drive, ATI all in wonder Radeon.

I'm running WINME which I used on my old system.

I can use the pc for a while but for no reason the screen
will go black, no signal to my screen. I hit escape and
then the pc will (sometimes) reboot itself.

I was ordering some stuff online and as I filled out the
checkout form the PC went black on me.

Never had this before with previous pc's I've built!!

Can anyone help?

TIA

MATT UK
 
*TrappedUser* said:
Made a new PC, Gigabyte k7 Triton with a AMD3200,
Maxtor 80gig IDE drive, ATI all in wonder Radeon.

I'm running WINME which I used on my old system.

I can use the pc for a while but for no reason the screen
will go black, no signal to my screen. I hit escape and
then the pc will (sometimes) reboot itself.

I was ordering some stuff online and as I filled out the
checkout form the PC went black on me.

Never had this before with previous pc's I've built!!

Can anyone help?

TIA

MATT UK
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WILD GUESS . . . you recycled the case and power supply from a previous
system, right? If not, sounds like the brand new power supply is WAY
under-sized. -Dave
 
Power supply is underpowered.

Monitor is bad.

Files are corrupt in the OS.

You definitely should get rid of the WIN ME. Win98 SP2 is a better OS
than WinME!

This could easily be the WinME. ME has the option to revert to a
previous setting like WinXP. You might try that!
 
Power supply is underpowered.

Monitor is bad.

Files are corrupt in the OS.

You definitely should get rid of the WIN ME. Win98 SP2 is a better OS
than WinME!
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Win Me has a couple of faults, it's driver database is limited, and it is
lousy as an upgrade, but as a clean install, it's fine, and fast.
 
WILD GUESS . . . you recycled the case and power supply from a previous
system, right? If not, sounds like the brand new power supply is WAY
under-sized. -Dave
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Wild but very WRONG, every upgrade I buy a new case with power supply.

As for the monitor, it;s a brand new Dell monitor.

Winme is slightly better than Win98SP2 which is an
OS I happen to like, in fact I was running it when the
problems started but I have got WinME up because
Win98 isn't very good with the latest Nortons package.

I have checked the Bios, even updated it.
 
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