"Nick Z" wrote in message
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Recently I've been having problems with my video card crashing at
random
times (Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 256 MB). For example, in the middle of the
day when nobody's doing anything on the computer or while I'm playing a
game
(EQ), the ATI utility SMARTSAVE comes up and tells me that the driver had
to
refresh the video card because it stopped responding. Once I cancel that
message everything goes back to normal (I just maximize my game window and
continue playing).
Another problem which is possibly related to this is when I boot up my
computer after it being off for a few hours, the motherboard beeps several
times and the D-bracket diagnostic card indicates that it failed to
initialize the video card. To fix that problem, I just leave the computer
on
for a while in that state, then CTRL+ALT+DEL it and it boots up normally.
Could this be a power supply problem?

It sounds like a weak power supply to me. -Dave