Thread: The Vista Related Monitor Fuzzing Up

Okay I don't know where to begin. I came onto this site because I feel like I need to turn to professional help. I will list my computer's specs if you need me to do that.

The problem is that my monitor keeps fuzzing up and crashing. I game with this PC, and at first thought this issue was more game related. However just recently and more disturbingly my monitor and audio will freeze up on the desktop.

In my search to fix this elusive problem I learned a little about this thing called "Kernel Memory". Apparently if there is too little of it, your monitor will overwhelm and freeze. This is my current theory... I put on a very graphically instense game I own, in windowed mode and used a program called "process explorer" to watch my kernel memory as I played. I watched as it slowly descended from about 380 MB to 160 MB where my monitor froze up and my pc crashed (in just 2 mins). I don't understand, my graphics card.. my 3 GB of RAM.. it could play three games at once (and has served me well for the past two years without a problem), (oh and yes, I did dust my pc thoroughly just so you know). But for some reason something is eating up my "kernel memory," and I don't know what it is...

All I know is that this problem started about a week ago. It could have been a new game I installed, a bad driver bug.. I don't know, and I feel like im gonna freak out..

First, yes, we need specs. If you go to your profile, you can enter them so all can see, or just list ehere. Without that, it will be hard to make a real diagnosis. Second, the games it freezes on, or if its everything.

I doubt it is Vista, ant more than any other OS. As far as reg cleaners go, I would say dont use them, they can be trouble than anything as they tend to remove more than just dead entries a lot of the time. Its sounds like it may be a heat issue, causing a lockup.

hi,

If your comp is from a particular maker you will be able to use the support website for your make and model to get driver updates if it is a custom build you may be able to to the same from mobo makers support site.