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Crashing, icons moved upon reboot

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November 1, 2013 2:25:13 PM

Twice today my pc has crashed. The screens go black and read "no signal", a few seconds later the pc starts rebooting, I choose "start windows normally" and when the desktop shows, all the icons are moved around. First time they were moved to the right side of the screen, second time half were on the left screen and half on the right screen. First crash I was playing BF4, second crash I was just on the web browser (Chrome). Any idea what could be causing this?

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November 1, 2013 2:40:35 PM

the lose of signal on the monitor and the icons moved around makes me think there's a problem with your video card, maybe drivers crashing causing a change to a lower resolution (thus icons appear in different position when normal resolution is restored).

Check the windows event viewer to see if there's anything related to your video card or its drivers, also more info about your pc specs would be useful.
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November 1, 2013 2:59:04 PM

RaDiKaL_ said:
the lose of signal on the monitor and the icons moved around makes me think there's a problem with your video card, maybe drivers crashing causing a change to a lower resolution (thus icons appear in different position when normal resolution is restored).

Check the windows event viewer to see if there's anything related to your video card or its drivers, also more info about your pc specs would be useful.


I'm not sure how to check the windows event viewer. My pc specs are;

Windows 7
870A Fuzion motherboard
Phenom II X6 1050T
GTX460

It just crashed again while playing BF4, maybe it's time for a new card.

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