Don't know yet.
I know you have an HP Pavilion, but that's not enough. There's like a 10,000 Pavilions.
Go here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/siteHome?cc=us&lc=en
and/or give me the model number: Pavilion ______ (fill in the blank)You have posted restarting, freezing, flickering. Since you are on the part of reinstalling your system.
Have you :
1. First tested your Hard drive as suggested?
2. Use one stick of RAM module, alternately on available slot - reboot, REINSTALL again.
3. Borrowed another Power Supply with same or greater wattage.
4. Does PC have a built-in video graphics for you to work on other than the troubled video card?
5. Tested the Video card on another PC or on a repair shop to confirmed that its faulty?
They could install that card on their PC for probably a minimum fee or free.
MANY, many thank you to CC, Allen, Jason and everybody else. It was a graphics card problem after all!! I REPLACED the card on the weekend and everything is fine with my graphics now. A side note though, now I have no sound and my computer is telling me that there are no mixers available and to go to the control panel and add new hardware. Once again, everything that I have TRIED does not work. I researched on the net and have tried everything suggested and nothing! I'm telling you, it's going out the window!!!Many graphics cards now have integrated audio. If it has an HDMI port, then it does. I know when I installed my new graphics card, I had to turn the graphics card audio off because I wanted to continue to use the onboard audio.