Screen goes black or freezes during gameplay

cinnstix

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May 9, 2012
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Here is my build, I built it in 2012 and haven't changed out any parts.

Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

PSU: CORSAIR CX series CX600 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Graphic Card: MSI R7870 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K

RAM: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR

Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - OEM


The issue I've been having started when I began to play League of Legends late November 2012. The other games I had played before had never had this issue. While playing the screen will either freeze and not allow me to do anything (Tab out, Ctrl+Alt+Delete, etc) and I have to force shut down my computer. Or the screen will go black, the fans on my computer will run very high and sometimes there is a buzzing sound in my headset, and I also have to force shut down the computer. I was thinking that it was overheating but that is not the case. My comp stays around a general 36-43 Celsius when I game. I recently cleaned it out and added new thermal paste, but the issue is still occurring. I also recently updated all of my drivers.
 
Open Event Viewer .... it lists all the 'events" that happened on your system
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/226084-event-viewer-open-use-windows-7-a.html

You can do it by downloading a stress testing Program like RoG Real Bench. OCCT (run GPU and CPU tests). Furmark for gaming. See if you can duplicate the failure and at what temps / voltages it happened. HWiNFO64 is a good temp / voltage monitoring program