First off I recently built my new computer. This is the following items bought and installed with the exception of the Heat Sink (it did not fit)
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=18360911
Now, here's what has been happening. So of course I installed the games onto the Non-SSD because I was just anxious to start playing and completely forgot to look into where I was installing these games. Anyways, I installed Guild Wars 2, Diablo 3, and League of Legends. When I would play any of those games, within 30-45 minutes of playing the screens would blank out and the only way to resolve it was to do a hard reset of the computer.
So I thought it was the graphics card so I checked for updated drivers, found them, uninstalled the previous drivers and re-installed the updated ones from NVidia. Thought this was going to fix it but unfortunately it did not. The problem continued. So then I moved the games to the SSD but not the Steam games. So now I could play the games for hours without any interruption all of a sudden.
Then I tried playing a steam game with friends and screen blanked out after 30 minutes. I had to uninstall steam and re-install it onto my SSD and then reinstalled the game I was previously playing. I was able to play for hours again with no problem what-so-ever.
Today I was in Photoshop and Skype, and Second Life (designing) and the screens blanked out, again. One monitor a light blue color, the other a white color.
I have Googled to see what it could be but I am stumped as to whether or not this is a hard drive issue, a graphics card issue, or something else. I figured I'd come back here to the forums to get help from those that could supply it.
This computer is only about a week or 2 old right now so I can still get parts replaced if necessary.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=18360911
Now, here's what has been happening. So of course I installed the games onto the Non-SSD because I was just anxious to start playing and completely forgot to look into where I was installing these games. Anyways, I installed Guild Wars 2, Diablo 3, and League of Legends. When I would play any of those games, within 30-45 minutes of playing the screens would blank out and the only way to resolve it was to do a hard reset of the computer.
So I thought it was the graphics card so I checked for updated drivers, found them, uninstalled the previous drivers and re-installed the updated ones from NVidia. Thought this was going to fix it but unfortunately it did not. The problem continued. So then I moved the games to the SSD but not the Steam games. So now I could play the games for hours without any interruption all of a sudden.
Then I tried playing a steam game with friends and screen blanked out after 30 minutes. I had to uninstall steam and re-install it onto my SSD and then reinstalled the game I was previously playing. I was able to play for hours again with no problem what-so-ever.
Today I was in Photoshop and Skype, and Second Life (designing) and the screens blanked out, again. One monitor a light blue color, the other a white color.
I have Googled to see what it could be but I am stumped as to whether or not this is a hard drive issue, a graphics card issue, or something else. I figured I'd come back here to the forums to get help from those that could supply it.
This computer is only about a week or 2 old right now so I can still get parts replaced if necessary.