Red, blue white black stripey screen when playing games:\ - Computer Support & PC Help Forums

WhyCantThingsJustWork · 11-05-2008, 04:06 PM

Hi. when I try to play games on this PC for example a downloaded chess game or online game after about 5 - 10 minutes it will freeze and the scrren will turn into coloured stripes. note that this PC is very old/crap but still works fine when not playing games. please dont laugh at specifications

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pentimum 111 processor, 224mb RAM lol adn windows exp

i want to be able to play games on this PC so plwase make suggestions of waht this could be and how i could fix it, thanks. oh and that PC fits the game requirements by a little too.

**Dalo Harkin** · 11-05-2008, 04:12 PM

It will be a very old onboard GPU (graphics) it probably only just has 32 colours - you would need to find a GPU (very unlikely)
or upgrade to newer technology.

**Seth** · 11-05-2008, 04:16 PM

It might be overheating:

Cleaning the insides of your PC

**Wolfeymole** · 11-05-2008, 04:25 PM

Which chip do you have out of these three?

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WhyCantThingsJustWork · 11-05-2008, 04:33 PM

:| i dont know its either the first or second one, thanks. btw i just changed the resolution from 1280 x 1024 to 1024 x 768. im downoading a game atm lol then gna see if it works. thanks for the fast reply.

WhyCantThingsJustWork · 11-06-2008, 03:20 PM

Changing the screen resolution didn't work.I will just have to buy a
new one.