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Question

Screen goes black while playing video games

Apr 13, 2019 5:41AM PDT

Recently I've been getting this problem where my screen goes black after playing a video game for a while. Before the screen goes black, the computer starts making a clicking/scraping sound and the humming noise starts cutting off. After this, the screen goes black and says "No Signal". I can still hear the audio but the screen is black.

The noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBtTGQIiMSA

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Typical for heat and hardware issues.
Apr 13, 2019 5:54AM PDT
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Speccy report
Apr 13, 2019 6:40AM PDT
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Speccy
Apr 13, 2019 4:05PM PDT

Your ssd has trouble.
Reseat the sata cable...both ends.
If no help replace the sata cable.
If no help replace the ssd.

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Not too bad.
Apr 13, 2019 6:57AM PDT

But I do see areas to clean up.

1. JAVA. Remove old versions as you have more than one version installed.

2. The machine may be from 2013 so it may be aging and common areas that seem to fail are the PSU and GPUs.

3. The GPU is on the warm side so I'd get in there with a good canned air cleaning job. What is canned air and its uses are on YouTubes so I don't write about that.

4. As always there are games that have bugs and here we have games and an older PC. Try items 1 and 3 first.

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Thanks
Apr 13, 2019 7:18AM PDT

Thanks, I'll try these

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(NT) if something like a scary photo pops up immeadiately power o
Apr 14, 2019 3:15PM PDT
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(NT) try reseting it or try closing tabs
Apr 14, 2019 3:18PM PDT