- Aug 31, 2013
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My computer crashes in-game with what appears to be a graphics card problem. I recently bought a new rig and everything performs fine, except for occasionally the screen suddenly goes blue with horizontal lines across and the sound freezes, and then after about 10 seconds the PC reboots itself.
I have checked all the drivers are up to date, I've taken out + reinstalled the card to see if it was an installation problem, but it still crashes every now and then. I don't think it's an issue of the card being over-worked, as it will run fine on intense graphical situations, yet it has crashed when the game has been in pause before.
The windows event log shows a critical error at the time of the crash, something to do with "Kernel-Power". One of the crash reports also contained "whea_uncorrectable_error", which according to some is a critical hardware failure.
I don't know what else to do - I have tried all suggestions that I've read online to do with people who's cards are crashing.
The card is a MSI AMD Radeon HD 7850 1GB.
The rest of my specs if it helps:
Intel i5 3570K, OC to 4.20 GHz
700W Power supply
MSI Z77 G43A Motherboard
8GB Corsair 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
120mm Alaska Nero cooling fan
The game I play is DCS World.
Any help/suggestions are much appreciated, thanks.
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