Hi everyone. New here and have a real problem.
Every few minutes, my display freezed up. I can still move the mouse, but can't click on anything. It will sit like this for about 5 seconds, then the screen will go black for about 2 seconds then come back and everything will be fine. Evey once in awhile it causes the computer to restart (made me think it was a service that was continualy failing, but I've checked most of the vital services). Ran my Antivirus software (with up to date defs) and even an online AV scan. Ran Spybot and nothing there either. I haven't installed or uninstalled anything lately. I downloaded updated video drivers, that hasn't helped either.
Oh, also, on some occasions there appear to be little bright pink boxes of various sizes/positions. I think they are hidden system windows that are half showing up.
There, it just happened again and this time it resized this window (firefox). First time its done that!
Doesn't seem to be program specific, and can happen right away when I turn on my computer or it will start after a few hours. but once it starts it freezed every two or three minutes. Very annoying. Any help would be grately appreciated.
Windows XP SP 2 with all critical updates
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
512 MB Ram (don't know vendor)
ATI Radeon 8500
2 HD, one Western Digita, One Segate.
any other hardware specs or software you need just ask.
I used to have a little free prog that would reveal hidden system windows, does anyone here know what it was called? If I can get it I could see what process that bright pink box belongs to.