Screen freezes, then turns black

[ineedhelp]

I am so *irritated*, whenever I do something my screen freezes, then the screen turns black, then back to normal then again. It happens alot

ATI VPU recover Vpu recover has reset your graphics accelerater as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands. Please tell ati technologies about this problem The generate error report contains only system information such as driver version, agp settings, graphics frame buffer size, etc. That will be used to analzyze the problem thie perport will be reated as anonmyouse.

By the way I am using a Radeon 9550
Please help!

[Capper]

Welcome Inedhelp!!! Give us the rest of your system specs so we know what you are working with and can troubleshoot your problem.....somneone has the answer, and we'll get you up and running

[drew and not u]

Without knowing your system specs, have you tried reinstalling your drivers in safe mode?

[One4yu2c]

Some generic advice:

1) Install the latest Catalyst drivers for your videocard, available from ATI.

2) Make sure DirectX 9.0c is installed.

3) Check for an overheating problem. This means not only the overall airflow inside your chassis, but verify that your videocard's fan is spinning and free of any dust or debris.

4) If this problem happens in a specific game, check to see if there are any patches available.

[RangerXLT8]

Originally Posted by One4yu2c

Some generic advice:

1) Install the latest Catalyst drivers for your videocard, available from ATI.

2) Make sure DirectX 9.0c is installed.

3) Check for an overheating problem. This means not only the overall airflow inside your chassis, but verify that your videocard's fan is spinning and free of any dust or debris.

4) If this problem happens in a specific game, check to see if there are any patches available.

That is about the best advice one can give. I want to stress the tip to check the cards fan, to ensure it's spinning and the heatsink is free of dust.

This is a good method of making sure you have a clean\fresh driver install:

1. Download Driver Cleaner here, install
2. Uninstall current ATI CC\Drivers|uninstall utility
3. restart
4. run DC, clean for all ATI
5. restart
6. Install latest ATI drivers found here

[ineedhelp]

okay I am using a Radeon 9550 256mb. Computer? It really sucks (cleron (r) cpu 1.70ghz 1.69 ghz, 256 mb of ram).
Okay I think the problem is that I didnt download the right driver for my video card I dont know how to get the right drivet... can u guys help?
New problem okay I just donwload a driver yesterday, I thought it worked but it didnt the screen turns blank, system restarts by itself its like its not responding! please help me i rarley can do anything it keeps turning blank yesterday i installd a catlayst 6.4 driver download for windows xp

[fps justin]

look at Ranger's post. ^

[Tyreal]

Originally Posted by ineedhelp

okay I am using a Radeon 9550 256mb. Computer? It really sucks (cleron (r) cpu 1.70ghz 1.69 ghz, 256 mb of ram).
Okay I think the problem is that I didnt download the right driver for my video card I dont know how to get the right drivet... can u guys help?
New problem okay I just donwload a driver yesterday, I thought it worked but it didnt the screen turns blank, system restarts by itself its like its not responding! please help me i rarley can do anything it keeps turning blank yesterday i installd a catlayst 6.4 driver download for windows xp

Can you please clean up your grammer a little bit. We are happy to help you but sometimes I find it hard to understand what you are saying if you don't put any periods, captilize letters, or use commas.

thank you.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

You never know what can be in your case if you don't periodically check it out once in a while. I try to check my out monthly, though the case gets rarely dusty. However, my video card fan is always loaded with dust. It's easy for it to get caught up.

You aren't overclocking it are you?

[ineedhelp]

but then my video card has no fan.