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BulletHole24

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I haven't done a lot of gaming on my computer because I have been very busy over the last few months, but I've finally decided to get back into online computer gaming. The only problem is, every time I try to play a game, at random times my screen will go black, the light on my monitor will turn orange (meaning it's idle) and then I'll have to manually restart my computer (via the reset button or power on/off button). I tried to play Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 a while ago and everytime I started up a file/theme park, when it tried to load the park, the screen would go black and I'd have to restart. Now I'm trying to play Gunz from www.gunzonline.com, but at random times it'll do this. Like I started the game up and it'd get all the way to the screen where I try to login and then the problem would happen. Or I'd actually try to login and it'd happen. Or I'd finally login, play a game and as soon as I exit the room I'm in, the problem would happen. Someone recommended I run the WMD microsoft, but that found nothing wrong with my RAM or other hardware it was suppoed to check (I even pressed T so it would do the 11 part test). Does anyone think they could help me find what's wrong with my system?
 
I've had the same problem a few months ago. The thing that caused this problem was the videocard. My videocard wasn't completely pushed into the AGP-slot and everytime I started up a game the monitor would shut down. It took me three days to find the right position of my videocard in the AGP-slot, but after that I haven't had any problems.
 
well it's not that the monitor shuts down as soon as i start up a game. it's at random times (usually when a game is loading or something)
 
Maybe your videocard is getting too hot. Do you have a decent cooler? It also could be the powersupply not being able to give sufficient power when needed.
 
well... i have a 480W Antec TruePower PS... i thought that would have been enough. as for the Video Card, I'm not sure. it's a GeForce 6600GT (AGP)
 
grrrr... see what i mean? I just opened up the game, joined a room, faught until the game was over, then we went back to the waiting area and the host started another game. as soon as the game starts, my monitor shuts down (the music and sound effects from the game were still going for a few seconds more, but then cut off) and i had to restart.
 
Hmm... that's a very weird problem, is it the monitor shutting down in totally random time intervals? or is it usually happens at roughly exact same time intervals? reason why i'm asking is if i'm wondering if it has to do with your power managment settings, in the screensaver tab of display properties, the screensaver and monitor power tab, under power options properties where you set your power schemes.
 
well it's usually when the game is loading something. like the last time it crashed was when we were about to start a new game and the game was loading all the players into the game. if i'm already in a game running around shooting people then chances are it's not going to crash. other times it crashes is when im logging into the game (more loading)...
 
well i just orderd a new heatsink/fan for my vid card and some arctic silver 5 for my CPU (it really needs it.. it's pretty hot idle and gets 10C+ hotter when doing something like scanning for virii)
 
If you're monitor shuts down, it's because the video card has ceased sending a signal so the monitor does it's "Green Energy Star" thing and goes into standby mode.

This is mostly caused by a hardware failure of some sort. Either something is too hot or a RAM module is bad. Best thing to do is get some benchmarking torture test tools to figure it out. Run a test for video, another for memory, etc. for a few hours and see what flakes out.
 
I have all sorts of weird problems like that. BF2 just kicked out to the desktop and it did before that, the time before that, and so on. Sometimes it just freezes but that usually happens in Farcry and COD (the freeze like your freeze). Just the pains of being a PC gamer. That is why I am leaning more and more towards consoles everyday, exclusively towards them.
 
well i ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic test and that came up negative (passed all 11 tests no problem) so I'm assuming there's nothing wrong with my RAM. im assuming it's my video card overheating (it has stock fan/heatsink on it) which is why i just ordered the zalman VF700-CU for it
 
guess who feels.... really dumb... bullet feels... really dumb.... really dumb, really dumb, really dumb, really dumb, really dumb, really dumb, really dumb... na na na

my video card wasnt plugged into my PS :mad: i didn't realize it had a PS connector for it. i thought that was the 6800 only.

David16k said:
Maybe your videocard is getting too hot. Do you have a decent cooler? It also could be the powersupply not being able to give sufficient power when needed.
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i guess you were right.
 
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