Help plz

[mayney]

i recently purchased a good comp for a cheap price,

q6600 @ stock
3gb ddr2
nvidia 9600 gso 768mb vram

i have had this prob several times now, i play a game for x amount of time and with warning or slowdown the monitor will go inot standby mode and the sound will loop till it dies the only was y to get back to normality is to hard boot the game si have been playing that i have sisues with are zeno clash, empire earth 3, unreal tournament 3 and a few others yet i have never has this problem with my favourite left 4 dead. what is the matter is it hardware or have i gotta bug or virus? if its hardware will it be expensicve to put right?

 

[mayney]

haway please dont ignore n00b in need of help here

 

[mayney]

please help i dont know what to do

 

[aford10]

What kind of PSU do you have??

 

[aford10]

You can disable the standby mode in the power settings.

 

[timo99]

The most likely problems are: defective memory, overheating cpu or overheating graphics card. Run a stress test of cpu/memory (like orthos or prime, make sure you use all 4 cores) and see if you get any errors. You can try to open up your case and see if it takes longer to get error. If you haven't done so yet - clean your cpu cooler and graphics card. Google orthos to find how to use it.