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Strange crash while running certain games.

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Mikaiei

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Dec 9, 2004
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Its happened a few times before, moreso now than previously though. At any random point in a game, 5 minutes, 2 hours, or whatever, a multicolored checkerboard pattern will cover the entire screen and my computer will freeze up making me have to restart. Now this can get quite annoying especially during mmorpgs, anyways, here are my specs.

Athlon MMX 1.1Ghz
Geforce 4, 4200 Ti 128
512mb DDR
running on windows xp

im pretty sure i have all my drivers updated, so im not quite sure what the problem could be. i searched through google and i see a few more have had this problem as well. would appreciate any help

the most recent game it is happening on is World of Warcraft
 
This could be a dust problem. You might want to check the inside of your PC case to see if there is an accumulation on the graphics card, or on the CPU heatsink/fan. If so, buy a can of compressed air and do some cleaning - outside.

It could also be the graphics or CPU fan siezing up. After all, given the specs, it looks like you've had this PC for a while.

Pascal.
 
I will try cleaning it out now, thanks for the tips.
 
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