Red, blue white black stripey screen when playing games:\

[WhyCantThingsJustWork]

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:):

 

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]

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]

It might be overheating:

 

http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/tech-tips-and-tricks/4235-cleaning-insides-your-pc.html

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Which chip do you have out of these three?

 

Pentium III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[WhyCantThingsJustWork]

:| 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. Edited November 5, 2008 by WhyCantThingsJustWork

[WhyCantThingsJustWork]

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

new one. :mad: