Periodic Black Screens Persists For 3-5 Seconds At A Time
Feb 15, 2013
I just built a new computer and it's been running decently up until I tried playing some video games on it. When running games (e.g., World of Warcraft), my screen freezes up for one second, followed by a black screen for a few more seconds. After that, the gameplay resumes, but I'm sitting there wondering what just happened. The sound is still intact the entire time.Sometimes it occurs frequently, and sometimes I can play for an hour or more at a time without any black screens. I've been trying to figure out what has been triggering it (i.e., exploring new territory in-game, etc.), but haven't found anything conclusive.I have a feeling it has to do with my video card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2), but I'm not sure. I checked for overheating problems with CoreTemp, but found that the temperature was stable during gameplay. Specifically, right after the crashes I would check the temperature and see that it was average and unwavering.
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Feb 13, 2011
my computer keeps crashing cause of win32k.sys
Computer Specs:
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
I5 760 2.8ghz quad core
.Zalman 9900aled CPU cooler
G. Skill ribjaws DDR3 1333mhz 8gb ram
Evga gtx 470 1280mb video card
1tb WD black caviar 6gb/s 7200rpm 64mb cache
Thermaltake 775 modular psu
24x DVD/CD burner
Added a 200mm blue led top exhaust
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Antivirus: Bitdefender ts malwarebyte
i have done a memtest and it was successful without fail also this is the 3rd time I have done a clean install before was cause of ntoskrnl.exe so did a clean install now its cause of win32k.sys?
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