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Screen switches on and off and on and off etc, or just freezes

Hi,
I have a Dell inspiron 8200 laptop since 2001. It has 512 Ram and 40 Giga harddrive. Last november, the screen randomly started switching between on and off about every second. Sometimes it would just freeze completely.
The only solution is to switch the computer off.

I have tried various fixes and don t know what to do anymore:
in safe mode, I have never had any problems.
I have run the Dell diagnostics Cd (even the slow one) and that passed all the tests.
I thought it may be the batteries/ power related.
I have checked antiviruses with avira.
I even formatted and reinstalled everything, and updated the drivers. I thought that had fixed the problem, because after that it was only freezing some times, but was not having the screen on -off switch anymore.
But the switch on and off and on etc thing started again last night, and I now just don t know what to do anymore.

Do you have an idea what it could be?

Thanks and Regards,

John-Frederick

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Motherboard chipset problem dude.

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