Computer Crashes

[spd]

Issue i've had for several month's now, generally while playing wow, my system will freeze, the screen turning black and the power symbol on the monitor going from green to orange, forcing me to turn the computer off and on.

Anyone have any idea's?

[Olo401]

What's your computers specs?

[spd]

Window's XP, 2 gig's of ram, Nvidia 8800 GTX, quad core 2.4GHZ, i mean i run with either good/high settings on wow, and while i've been having this issue for awhile, i got my video card replaced by dell, the issue stopped for a month or so, and it was a month of solid 25 man raiding, but a few days ago it happened again, then again today.

[Kaisha]

No BSOD or anything? Could be a PSU problem if it only occurs when your PC is under load.

[spd]

no BSOD, it just freezes completely or the screen freezes then goes black and the monitor switches to standby, as soon as it happens no-one can hear me on vent or anything, i've never seen it happen during anytime other than wow, and it's not just while raiding, it can happen almost anywhere

[GentaiShinigami]

Sounds like a Monitor or Video card maybe even a port or cable problem on them. You could try to unplug and replug the monitor when it does it next time.

Doubt it's PSU since the computer itself doesn't turn off ("forcing me to turn the computer on and off"). Sounds like it's gonna have to take another trip back to Dell if you can. ><

[spd]

dell wanna replace the video card again, and i do lose access to ventrilo etc when it happens so i doubt it's the monitor, also my mouse stay's lit up and the computer fans still sound like there spinning, so i don't think the computer fully shuts down