R40 Video Card

[gtruk9]

Just recently I have had problems with my video just locking up the whole computer and I am not sure if my R40 which I have had for over two years is going whacky on me or maybe the video card is going on it... I am hoping not. I did find some trojans floating on the puter which I took off with avast in a boot scan ... I ran it several times too so I got all strings I think.. I did also notice that if I run it for a long time and it gets warmer... the video starts to flicker and lock the computer up again. Any thoughts or recognition to these symtoms would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance
GT

[jronald]

I have at least 3 R40s with the same issue. I suspect its going to take a motherboard to fix them. You can try booting into a Live Linux CD and see if it still happens, that will eliminate the HDD that you think is an issue.

Ron

[gtruk9]

so your take on this is the motherboard goes after a few years of good use?

this is what happens when it flickers and then locks up totally. Also I can reboot ok after it cools down a bit.

[RealBlackStuff]

Open it up, clean out all the dust, especially from the CPU fan.
If you use canned air, stop the fan itself from spinning while you do that, otherwise you wreck the fan bearing.

[gtruk9]

Thanks Bill I will try that... although I am worried it might be close to the end of it's life. I am not sure. It seems to be getting worse... for a while it would run for a few hours now it seems to only run okay for about 10-15 minutes. It started doing this last Thursday and now on Sunday it has gotten worse.

Obviously I need to take it apart removing the keyboard so I can see the whole insides of it too right?