- May 7, 2014
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Ok, first of all I recently signed up to the forums after a couple of years of coming to toms hardware for my information. I do not know if this is the correct category for my problem so sorry if it is not.
So I recently built a computer (about 8-12 months ago) and for the last 3 months my PC has crashed while playing a game. It does not occur that often but it does happen randomly, sometimes once per week, other times 2 times a day, or sometimes about 2 weeks go by before it crashes. I'll be playing a game and then all of a sudden the screen goes black, a weird sound goes through the speakers fort a couple of seconds and the stops. I then have to turn off the computer and restart. I would say its happened about 15 to 20 times already and its really annoying. It might be the drivers for the graphics card because I had beta radeon drivers but I recently updated and it still happens. I dont know if it has to do with the game im playing, I usually play Day of defeat source and i bet half of the times its crashed was when I played it. I do think also that it might be my motherboard because Its not a very good one and I did overclock my cpu from 3.3 to 3.6 but now I put it back down to 3.4. I also applied a slight overclock to my graphics card fro 925 to 950 MHz. Could it be the graphics card itself? I had a radeon 7850 before and i think it was fine. I would greatly appreciate all the help I could get.
I forgot to add that I downloaded a special program that scans for crashes and it came up with an ati sys error.
specs: MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
AMD FX 6100 cpu
Sapphire Radeon 7950 3gb graphics card
Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus - 550W Power Supply
So I recently built a computer (about 8-12 months ago) and for the last 3 months my PC has crashed while playing a game. It does not occur that often but it does happen randomly, sometimes once per week, other times 2 times a day, or sometimes about 2 weeks go by before it crashes. I'll be playing a game and then all of a sudden the screen goes black, a weird sound goes through the speakers fort a couple of seconds and the stops. I then have to turn off the computer and restart. I would say its happened about 15 to 20 times already and its really annoying. It might be the drivers for the graphics card because I had beta radeon drivers but I recently updated and it still happens. I dont know if it has to do with the game im playing, I usually play Day of defeat source and i bet half of the times its crashed was when I played it. I do think also that it might be my motherboard because Its not a very good one and I did overclock my cpu from 3.3 to 3.6 but now I put it back down to 3.4. I also applied a slight overclock to my graphics card fro 925 to 950 MHz. Could it be the graphics card itself? I had a radeon 7850 before and i think it was fine. I would greatly appreciate all the help I could get.
I forgot to add that I downloaded a special program that scans for crashes and it came up with an ati sys error.
specs: MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
AMD FX 6100 cpu
Sapphire Radeon 7950 3gb graphics card
Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus - 550W Power Supply
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