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Video trouble on game computer

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Having trouble on my gaming computer. Started when I was playing games but progressed into presenting shortly after I booted to windows desktop. Basically after a while the screen just goes out and monitor says detecting signal, at the same time I can hear the video card fan ramp up and down a couple times. What I don't get is the BIOS settings warning that the computer locked up and changed back to defaults after I reset the computer.

I'm thinking video card, thoughts?

Gigabyte HD6950
Gigabyte X58A-UD5
Xeon W3530
G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI XMS spec 1600
Corsair CMPSU-950TX

No overclock.
 
The video card may be a culprit, but the computer shouldn't have locked up like that. Do you have a spare video card or another computer you could use to swap parts from?

Have you tried replacing the CMOS battery (and resetting the CMOS/BIOS itself)? It's only a CR2032 watch battery you could find at most stores.
 
No spare parts of course. Battery tests good and it isn't having trouble maintaining settings or time, though I could reset to defaults and try again.
 
Gigabyte sent an email a while back saying they received it but I got nothing saying they sent out a replacement. They don't appear to have a way to check RMA status on line either. Do they usually take a long time?
 
Have you tried measuring the output of the PSU? And all the appropriate cables plugged in? Could be a power issue to the card causing it to "restart" itself.
 
I didn't measure it but I tried a different set of cables for the video card power.
 
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