Shoutbox

Hey! I'm having quite a few problems with my pc atm, its pretty old tbh, but still, I can't work out whats wrong with it! I think its a hardware fault but i duno how to repair it.

I have recently formatted it and restored it to factory shipped settings etc. and then gone onto update it etc. Its all up to date and has an up to date internet security program on it of which ive checked for viruses and everything has bn fine.

Basicly, it keeps spontaneously turning istelf of. I have worked out that this seems to only happen when im on the nternet and using internet explorer, so i then went on to instal mozilla firefox, and now instead of instantly restarting, the computer just totally crashes.

And to add to that, this mornin and it seems to have aquired some nice big permanent racing stripes!

They are big white vertical stripes that go across the screen and they appear as soon as the pc is turned on and go from top to bottom of the screen... and its pretty annoyting lol.



Anyone help??


I have an Advent 3418
Windows XP SP3
3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor HT
nVidia GeForce FX5200 Graphixs card
512 ram


thanks... x