Wierd Monitor

[Adam67]

 Hi , I've got a home built PC with a gigabyte M68M-S2P mb with onboard graphics NVIDEA GeForce 7025 / NVIDEA nForce 630a , a AMD Sempron 140 cpu and 4gb ram , the monitor is a samtron 94v flat screen.

 The other day was working online , I'd got 3 browsers going ( aol , Firefox , and ie ) which is normal for me then for no aparent reason the screen froze , the pointer wouldn't move , couldn't change browsers - then it was like the background faded slightly and the brightness was turned up after a couple of minutes it sort of clicked back to normal ( no noise ) and has been fine since.

 Can anyone explain what this was ? if anything is starting to crap out on me ?

Thanks , Adam

[Accessless]

The system started to respond after a while without needing a force restart? Odd if true. A Virus scan and a seatools diagnostic wouldn't hurt.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ [Excellent free program for determining if your hard drive is on the way out]

One thing though. Why three different browsers? Surely that would just use unnecessary extra RAM memory when you could open multiple instances of firefox.

[Adam67]

 HI

Yes , started again before I'd even got past the clicking on the mouse and shouting at it !. I do run a couple of virus scans ( Avast , Malwarebytes , and spybot ) regularly but I'll give them another go just in case and I'll try the seagate tool as well.

 Why 3 browsers , aol is the isp I've been with for years and use there browser when I start up and for email , firefox gets used for general webpages , and I use IE for particular programs and searches ( as I get nectar points per search but it only works on ie  ) then spend all night flicking between the 3 ( sends the missus up the wall ).

Thanks , Adam

[Adam67]

 Hi

 Right tried the seagate scan , but it wouldn't work - found out my hd is western , used the western digital's  data lifeguard diagnostic. It came back with - smart scan : pass , test result after scan : pass. I'll try an extended test tomorrow.

 It happened again today , froze then brightened the flick back to normal did it 3/4 times one after the other then it was back to normal.

Could it be the monitor and is there a way to test it ?

 Thanks , Adam

[jason2074]

No assurance but you could try a different monitor for confirmation. If you have both the dedicated and onboard video, check it on both ends to see the difference.