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#1 Oct 09 2006 at 12:19 PM Rating: Decent
okay first of all ive never had a hardware problem with the computer..and game is WOW

okay when im playing like 5 minutes in the game locks up,,then a few seconds later the screen dims (everything gets darker , like less gamma),, then the screen goes black and i have to restart computer

i have 2nd to latest nvidia drivers (stable)/ (latest drivers have video-playback issues)

im playing game on half quality @ 1024/768
athlon 3000+ @ 2.2
6800 gs 256mb pcie
1gb ram

this is my third day playing WoW, didnt have this problem other 2 days

any ideas? thanks



Edited, Oct 9th 2006 at 1:20pm PDT by rodrigorules

Edited, Oct 9th 2006 at 1:22pm PDT by rodrigorules
#2 Oct 11 2006 at 6:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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Check the fan on your video card. it may have failed. the symptoms you describe are consistant with overheating.
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