That’s nasty. Problems that occur randomly suggest you have a hardware related problem. Could be electrical (not enough power for the AGP port) or power fluctuation where you are or even the GPU or CPU is overheating sometimes.
My old card was a Radeon DDR 32 MB. Seemed fine. Didn’t have the black screen problems.
Microsoft’s website said the black screen will happen if the color depth is set too deep…I had it on 32 bit color and changed it to 16 bit.
I can now play the games that had a problem. That’s great and all…but I bought an expensive card to show as many colors as possible. I don’t want to setttle for 16 bit.
Do you think it has anything to do with my monitor? It does have the ability to display 32 bit at a max resolution of 1600X1200.