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I just got back from vacation for a week, went to join some of my friends ingame online. Every was normal until after about two minutes my sound froze and my monitor lost all signal to my monitor. The computer would not respond for over five minutes so I had to cold boot. I start back up, everything is normal until I join a game again, and then same story. The crash/freeze happened on both highest and lowest settings. I then tried CoD4 and same story. Any idea of what is happening and how to fix it? I do not think that it is a video card issue since, 1 it works fine after a reboot, and 2, the sound freezes, but at any rate I have a nVidia 9500 gt.

I had this same problem, but it wasn't ingame. I had installed RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe, after i did that i noticed my pc was acting up. I tried most everything. When i finaly uninstalled that game, it was gone.

Did you install an old game on it resently?

Similar thing happened to me, the monitor just went black while playing a game. Turns out the graphics card got fried...

See if you can update any drivers for it.. I'm not sure what else you could do.

The thing is, for me, it didnt go black. It was like you took a screen of what you where doing, made it your desktop background, removed your icons, and had your taskbar auto hide..

myers73 wrote:I just got back from vacation for a week, went to join some of my friends ingame online. Every was normal until after about two minutes my sound froze and my monitor lost all signal to my monitor. The computer would not respond for over five minutes so I had to cold boot. I start back up, everything is normal until I join a game again, and then same story. The crash/freeze happened on both highest and lowest settings. I then tried CoD4 and same story. Any idea of what is happening and how to fix it? I do not think that it is a video card issue since, 1 it works fine after a reboot, and 2, the sound freezes, but at any rate I have a nVidia 9500 gt.

This happens to me all the time. It is, in fact, a video card issue. Same exact symptoms, except no matter what I do now the card overheats within about 10 minutes even on the most undemanding games. A hard refresh fixes the problem, but it will happen again when you try to join a game. The card cannot handle the load- oftentimes it is exceeding 90 degrees Celsius.

The solution to this is to either get another card, decrease the heat in the computer's environment, or download a program to set your fans. Eventually, however, you will have to buy a new card since yours is failing and eventually will not work no matter how many fans you put on it. Drivers won't solve anything, unfortunately.

well if it is a card problem I should still be under warranty, only go it a few months ago.