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Graphics Card Crashing Computer?

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  • AMD RADEON 6770
  • Graphics Card causing computer to crash
  • Computers
  • 6770
  • AMD
  • PAYDAY 2
  • DOTA 2
  • Computer Crash
  • Graphics
  • DARK SOULS 2
  • Graphics Cards
  • Radeon
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June 24, 2014 9:42:16 PM

I've had my PC for about 3 years now and I use a AMD Radeon 6770 graphics card been able to run anything from medium to high for a long time. I bought Dark Soul 2 day one on PC and have been able to play it on it's highest settings flawlessly seeing as how it's not too hard to run anyways but recently everytime I play the game my cpu sort of crashes.

First the monitor goes black, then the keyboard and mouse shut off, but my PC is still on. At first I thought this was just a problem with Dark Souls 2 but this happens on PAYDAY 2 and Super Street Fighter 4 for PC also.

I'm usually still able to play Dota 2 on max but today for the first time ever it crashed on me the same way only this time I was on skype while it was happening and was still able to talk to friends even though my computer was completely unresponsive.
tl;dr computer starting crash while playing games (first the monitor goes black then keyboard and mouse shut off while cpu still on)

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a b U Graphics card
June 24, 2014 9:50:09 PM

Do you get any type of error messages in the log? What are your temps on you GPU under load?
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June 24, 2014 10:45:01 PM

What are your card temps under load? Have you cleaned your card recently? New thermal paste? Have you done any graphic driver updates? Any BIOS update?
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June 24, 2014 10:47:55 PM

I think your RAM is not working !! try to remove one RAM Stick and Start your PC or grab a RAM form your friend to test it on your PC.
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June 24, 2014 11:26:17 PM

I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff as I've never had a problem before with my computer on playing anything so I'm not quite sure on how to check my card temperature under load. I was looking for programs to check card temperature and found GPU-Z it says my GPU temp is 80 C I'm not sure if that's bad or anything. I also haven't cleaned my card recently so that could be a possible solution I'll look into. As for thermal paste nah I haven't bought any and I did try to update my graphics card drivers a couple weeks ago hoping that would let me play Dark Souls 2 but no luck.
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June 24, 2014 11:34:05 PM

chad morton said:
I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff as I've never had a problem before with my computer on playing anything so I'm not quite sure on how to check my card temperature under load. I was looking for programs to check card temperature and found GPU-Z it says my GPU temp is 80 C I'm not sure if that's bad or anything. I also haven't cleaned my card recently so that could be a possible solution I'll look into. As for thermal paste nah I haven't bought any and I did try to update my graphics card drivers a couple weeks ago hoping that would let me play Dark Souls 2 but no luck.


If it's 80C in the middle of a game that's not good, but ok. If it's 80C just idling or using your web browser that's definitely a problem.
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June 25, 2014 1:26:02 AM

GPU usually can handle higher temps than CPU, but it sure is looking like temp a issue to me. If you open up your case and blow out the dust bunnies, check your temps again. CAUTION: do it someplace you don't mind getting dust all over the place if you have not cleaned your PC before. IF it still is at 80C, you may need to remove the GPU fan and reapply thermal compound (You don't usually have to do this, cleaning for the most part does the job 90% of the time)
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