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Graphic Card Problem

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June 12, 2014 8:33:44 AM

When I am playing Diablo III, after a while my screen goes black although my computer is still running. It makes a weird buzzing noise liken to an electrical zap when this is happening, it sounds as though it is coming from the graphics card. I try to turn it off by the power switch located on the top right front of the PC, but that doesn't work, so I'm forced to turn it off by the switch in PSU. I'm not sure if it is a GPU problem or if it is caused by something else. I have yet to have this happen when I'm not playing a video game. Needing some advice. Would anyone have an idea of what is happening or if that has happened to you? If there is additional information that you would like to know, please ask.

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June 12, 2014 8:50:56 AM

Please list you hardware specs. It sounds like your system is having heat issues. Have you cleaned it lately (graphics card cooler also)? An easy check is to open the side panel and play the game. If it runs longer or runs without shutting down it is a good sign that something is causing a heat issue. You video card may be failing also and under the games stress it heats up and fails. A third cause could be your PSU is failing under the games load on the section that supplies power to the video card. So start by trying to identify the cause. If you have on-board graphics, you can try to use it bypassing the video card to test that component.
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June 12, 2014 9:15:28 AM

Here are my specs.

AMD FX-8150 Black Edition, 3.60Ghz, 8MB Cache, 8 Core,125watt
Antec 520W High Current Gamer Power Supply, 80 PLUS Bronze, 135mm Quite Fan, 2x PCI-E, 6x SATA, 6x Molex, 1x Floppy, High Current +12V Rail(s)
Corsair 16GB (4x4GB), PC3-12800 (1600MHz) DDR3, Vengeance, 9-9-9-24, 1.5V, Dual Channel Kit
Gigabyte GeForce GTX650 Ti OC Edition (Base: 928MHz, Boost:1032MHz), 2GB GDDR5 (5000MHz), PCI-E 3.0, 2x DVI, HDMI, VGA
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 MB, AMD 990FX+AMD SB950, 4x DDR3, 2x PCI-E 2.0, 6x SATA III, 2x USB 3.0, 7.1 CH Audio, GBLAN, RAID, ATX

I did clean it last week, and have had the side off of the computer for some time now due to other problems that involved my computer crashing altogether which was resolved by cleaning it.
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June 12, 2014 9:27:26 AM

Try taking the graphics card out and try running the game.
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