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PC freezing while gaming

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January 28, 2014 4:55:14 PM

While gaming on my computer (any 3D game, from Minecraft (no mods) to World of Warcraft, sometimes my graphics driver crashes and recovers, and I can still continue playing whatever I was playing, although with a severely reduced framerate. Other times, I'm finding my computer emitting a loud, shrill continuous beep (followed by a complete lockup, where there is no sound, no input, nothing), which doesn't match any beep codes. No sound, no artifacts, it just goes kaput, and I need to reboot it. What could be causing this? I have updated all of my drivers to their latest versions (minus the BIOS), made sure my power options were set to High Performance in Windows, dusted the system out, and reseated my graphics card and RAM, with no luck so far.

EDIT: Here's a snippet from the Event Viewer of what happens before the freezes:
  1. - System
  2.  
  3. - Provider
  4.  
  5. [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP
  6. [ Guid] {9C205A39-1250-487D-ABD7-E831C6290539}
  7.  
  8. EventID 219
  9.  
  10. Version 0
  11.  
  12. Level 3
  13.  
  14. Task 212
  15.  
  16. Opcode 0
  17.  
  18. Keywords 0x8000000000000000
  19.  
  20. - TimeCreated
  21.  
  22. [ SystemTime] 2014-01-29T00:43:06.004828800Z
  23.  
  24. EventRecordID 28818
  25.  
  26. Correlation
  27.  
  28. - Execution
  29.  
  30. [ ProcessID] 4
  31. [ ThreadID] 44
  32.  
  33. Channel System
  34.  
  35. Computer FedEx-PC
  36.  
  37. - Security
  38.  
  39. [ UserID] S-1-5-18
  40.  
  41.  
  42. - EventData
  43.  
  44. DriverNameLength 62
  45. DriverName USB\VID_05AC&PID_1297\c841bfd3e046d112986e3a5f2657da1d8c11be2b
  46. Status 3221226341
  47. FailureNameLength 14
  48. FailureName \Driver\WUDFRd
  49. Version 0



Specs (everything stock; nothing overclocked)

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3

Memory: Corsair CMX16GX3M4A1333C9 XMS3 Desktop Memory Kit - 16GB

CPU: AMD FX-8350 with stock cooling

GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 660

Power Supply: Ultra LSP750

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January 28, 2014 5:07:45 PM

Do update the bios, check ur gpu if its overheating.
otherwise:
check in the following order
1. ram broke
2.gpu broke
3. pcie slot connectivity.
5.psu power cable
5.5 psu
Its likely that SOMETHING is unstable. But ur average everyday usage isnt enough to push it to the point where it would cause a problem.
Hard to say
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January 29, 2014 3:31:10 AM

I updated the BIOS, still crashing. The GPU isn't going beyond the normal temperatures I've seen it at, and it's freezing at even simple games like Super Hexagon. Later today I'll be putting the GPU into another computer, and giving it a test drive.
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January 30, 2014 7:56:13 AM

Final update: Turned out that the card was bad. It gave a beep code when I plugged it in to another PC, looked it up to find it a faulty graphics error. Thanks for the help, Yingda!
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January 30, 2014 5:10:14 PM

Np, glad to have helped
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