Yup I really don't know what happened here I was browsing the forums defragmenting my HDD when all of a sudden my computer stopped responding then a few seconds later the screen went black the power was still on and everything so I had to shut it off and restart windows I don't think it's a virus because I just reinstalled windows but I will do a virus scan just to be sure.

Anyone ever get a black screen of death instead of a blue screen?

It's happened to me a few times. I'm guessing it had to do with the video card.

hmm

Thats nomrlay when you got conflics in drivers or something like that.. make sure you got the lastest videocard drivers..

Download http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=36 super pi and do the 8M test. see if anything happens also if it finshs, post the time

Ok I did a virus scan and I got nothing so I will try that.

[Edit] Nvm I think I may have found the problem I just have to wait and hope that im right.

Clean your vents, get speedfan, check your computer temps.

36M time = 36M 19s, way better than that horrible pentium computer =p
- Not calculated. [ 16K]
- Not calculated. [ 32K]
- Not calculated. [ 64K]
- Not calculated. [ 128K]
- Not calculated. [ 256K]
+ 000h 00m 19s [ 512K]
+ 000h 00m 41s [ 1M]
- Not calculated. [ 2M]
- Not calculated. [ 4M]
- Not calculated. [ 8M]
- Not calculated. [ 16M]
+ 000h 36m 19s [ 32M]

My favorite thing was that the program said it had more allocated memory than was existing. XD

I have a similar problem

about 50% of the time I log off, the screen just goes

That IS to do with the graphics card

Something like that used to happen to me. When I logged out, or the screensaver was activated, the screen just died with the message "so signal input" when I tried to get the comp working again. Fixed itself after a while though, it may actually have been when we replaced that buggy old graphic card that came with the comp (In fact it was from the Nvidia Nforce series - I think 6400+ - but it still bugged.)

I get a black screen of doom when playing full screen games, the game freezes for about half a second then the screen goes black and nothing happens for the remainder of the time I leave it on.