BLACKOUTS in game??

[fordracr]

OK sometime when I play quake or unreal tournament my moniter will all of a sudden go black and it is as if my videocard is no longer giving it signal. However I can still hear the music and stuff going on, so I doubt it froze. I do not have my videocard overclocked, but I do have my CPU overclocked. I though well maybe the FSB is too high, but I ran it at the normal 100 and it still does it sometimes. What could this be?? I have alot of stuff running off my Power supply do you think I am eating up all my POWER?? I have a 300 WATT antec with about 10 fans and a 40 gig 7,200 RPM hardrive, geforce 2 GTS, sonudblaster live, linksys NIC, 256, 128 sticks of ram, a floppy, 72 TRUE X cdrom, 12X TDK burner. Could I be sucking all my 300 watts?? DO I need to lose some fans ?? I am using the nvidia 12.41 reference drivers. PLEASE GIVE ME SOME HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T PLAY MY GAMES............


ONE LAST NOTE;....... It only blacks out in games, NEVER in windows or basic programs.

[Monaco]

Hey that sounds like yer monitor is crapping out to me. Mine started doing that before it died for good.

Althought you might wanna carefully check the VGA connector on card and monitor, make sure it's not messed up at all.

[Bobby Manus]

Check your refresh rates make sure there not sent to custom and turned higher then there suposed to be... If your montor came with a floppy use it it will set all your refresh rates for you!

[!-=sky=-!]

try to turn your vsync on if it's not on already

it should help

[Despotes]

Is your monitor simply going to sleep? After installing new video drivers, I often have to go into "safemode" and reduce my resolution size to 640X480 since my games momentarily start up at this setting. Then I click apply, restart, boot up normally and set my resolution back to my normal setting. If I did not do this, my monitor would immediately go to sleep when starting or exiting a game.

To test to see if this is your problem, simply change your desktop resolution to a few settings lower and higher than your regular setting. If your monitor goes to sleep in one of those settings(probably640X480) then you know what to do
Good luck :D

[Nagorak]

I had this happen with my ATi Radeon and an Asus A7v133 motherboard I had. I tried changing everything, FSB, cards, etc. Nothing worked. Eventually my card died, so I was forced to get a new one and the problems still persisted. I finally determined that the problem was my motherboard's AGP slot. Apparently it was somehow screwed up. The whole thing really ****ed me off because the motherboard obviously was responsible for killing my previous graphics card. :mad:

I'd suspect the board. Try disabling fast writes and setting it to AGP2x mode (that seemed to stop the problems, but I could no longer trust the board after it fried some of my other hardware). Actually you should probably just RMA the board ASAP, because I strongly suspect that it is responsible for the problems you are having. Otherwise it will only cause you more grief later down the line.

By the way, it was just that particular A7v133 with the problem, I had a second A7v133 that worked fine. So it was the individual board with the problem not all A7v133s.