computer crashes randomly in games

[coreyb]

So my computer has been running just fine for over a year now but just recently I've been getting problems. While playing games my monitor will stop displaying and say "no signal detected" then it will go back to windows and blue screen and crash.

It's not happening often enough for me to send it somewhere, but it's worrying me. What could be causing this?

 

[ch33zw1z]

What voltage are those Crucial dimms rated for/running at? First place to start is Memtest, need to rule out that RAM.

 

[Intexity]

What are your temps? Could be overheating. Also update your video driver. I keep repeating this because my card was having the same issue without the BSOD and updating the driver fixed it.

 

[coreyb]

the dimms are rated for 2.1 and are running at that voltage as well. so i should download memtest and do a few runs?

 

[coreyb]

ok, so im running memtest as we speak. will report back with results.

 

[coreyb]

done running memtest and there were no errors.

 

[coreyb]

my 8800 is idling at 60c, could that be the issue?

 

[Intexity]

sounds like you hit it on the head had an 8800gt that was a hot card. finally blew.

 

[coreyb]

i wish it would blow so i had an excuse to by a new card.