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[RikiRude]

So last night while playing a game of EIRR, my computer crashed, simply my screen went blank. I guess sound stopped too, I wish I would of paid attention.

Either way, I restarted, and I was just browsing the internet, thinking the graphics were up a bit too much and that it was a one time thing. But then bam it happened again.

afaik it's not the monitor, because it stays on with the normal green light. I do believe I hear a buzzing from my computer, but I may have not noticed it before.

What's the best way to figure out what is wrong? If I turn off my computer for a bit then turn it back on it'll work for a little bit, then screen will go black again and it won't start up, not even to the mobo XFX screen.

Anyone have any assumptions as to what it is, I haven't had ANY issues at all since I put in windows 7, in fact, my computer has been working phenomenal, so it's strange this would come out of the blue.

[Computer991]

How old is your video card?

[RikiRude]

According to newegg I got it 9/21/07, so only about 4 years old, not to mention there was a 6 month period where my computer was out of commission. I also make a good habit of turning off my computer at night.

[IJustDontCare]

According to newegg I got it 9/21/07, so only about 4 years old, not to mention there was a 6 month period where my computer was out of commission. I also make a good habit of turning off my computer at night.

I heard turning your computer on and off shortens its life. I always leave a screen saver on instead.

[Computer991]

Yeah it does help most computer parts only have about a guaranteed 50,000 hour life span, but from what I can tell your video card is no good...it's about 5 years old which is the time around most videocards start going ape shit.

[RikiRude]

Well I'll take it as a blessing and a curse, you think it could be anything else at all? And is there anything else I can check? I don't think I have an extra computer to pop it into to make sure its the video card, but I can probably bring it to the computer shop up the street.

 EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3

this is what I have, I don't think I'll have a budget of more than $200, any suggestions to what I should get?

1 x Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
1 x CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-620HX 620W ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80
1 x GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80557E6750
2 x Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
1 x Creative 70SB073A00000 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer

This is my current system.

And it really kills your computer by turning it off? What's the best thing to do, hibernate it at night?

[Computer991]

I'm almost 100% Sure its your video card and no it helps to turn it off your get more hours of your computer...

And trust me man if you don't want to spend more then 20$ for abetter video card here are some choices...

100$ +
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102948
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130660
100$ Below
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150565&cm_sp=Cat_Video_Cards_%26%2338%3b_Video_Devices-_-Clearance-_-14-150-565

If i was you i'd wait till the Christmas specials come out... For black friday Newegg was giving out free video card( 25 dollar discount + 25$ dollar rebate = freee)

But if killer would like to pop in this thread he knows much more about video cards than i do.

[RikiRude]

awesome thanks, yeah i think ill wait until christmas, in a week im going out of town for 8 days to see my family, so by the time i got the video card if i ordered it now id have like 2 days to use it.

thanks so much, i remembered i have an older computer, so im going to take the video card out of that one for now so i can still use the desktop.