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Software => Computer games => Topic started by: JonStrike on March 21, 2008, 11:17:03 PM

Title: Screen goes black while playing a game
Post by: JonStrike on March 21, 2008, 11:17:03 PM

As the topic implies, i noticed today while playing Command and conquer (Zero hour and tiberium wars), just plain randomly my cpu screen goes black, my monitor says that its going to sleep as if it lost signal and my sound also goes away, which forces me to restart windows.

I find this odd cause the other day i played these games for hours without a problem. Im also playing Crysis and it hasn't done that yet. I've recently upgraded my computer but these games worked fine after the upgrade, my specs are as follows.

-Asus P5N-d mobo
-Core 2 Duo 2.17gh(i forget the exact thing) processor
-Dual SLi Geforce 9600GT gpu's
- 550 w power supply
-3 GB of ram 4200(waiting on some nice corsair ones in the mail)
--all encased in Antec nine hundred full tower

Also i monitor the heat and the highest heat in there is GPU 1 at a normal of 58 to 64 degrees celcius. Any advice or help would be great, thanks in advance

Title: Re: Screen goes black while playing a game
Post by: fpsmitch on March 24, 2008, 08:16:09 AM

this sounds like and overheat, but 58-64?
shouldnt freeze just yet. what did you replace and have you made sure that everything si dust free?