That's not a sign of bad hardware. I can cause that with MANY GAMES over the years. Easy? How?
When a game starts it can change the video output to something your display can't show. Fix? Varies with each game. Over the years I have pondered if this has become too challenging. That is, this is where a Console wins out. Less to tinker with or set up.
Bob
System :
MSI P31 NEO intel 2duo core 2.66
Psu 500 watt
ram 4gb
had 250
graphics card readon hd5450
Ok, So here is the issue, Every time I start a game, the video card stops responding or the computer freezes, I read that someone thought it was a psu problem so I upgraded mine to the 500. still does it. I changed out with 4 diffferent graphics cards still does. Bought new ram still does it. reset the bios, still does it. reinstalled windows still does it. Edited the reg with the trd thing that delays the computer instead of freezing. still does it. updated driver same thing.
I really do not know what to do, other then replaceing the motherboard, I have done 6 differnt scan on the hd all come back good.
Any Ideas any help would be wanted
for information
it does not freeze in game freezes when trying to load programs once I get in the game I am fine. also has done it once or twice when I was just in windows
the other graphics card I have tried are
geforce 8500 gt
Gigabyte Radeon HD 4550
and another 5450hd when I thought it was the card
I have done stress test diagnostic test all comes up normal.
games I have tryed minecraft,dragons prophet, dead rising 2 older games my computer meets the regs of all games
please help any ideas?

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