"Elderj" <justinelder21********.com> wrote in message
news:BDE977F0-9E4A-428A-B72F-FD784BB13926@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> My computer recently started crashing, mostly during video games (Crysis,
> Call of Duty 4), and occasionaly during a movie. The screen goes black,
> then
> fills with vertical pinstrips over the entire screen, and the sound
> 'freezes'
> like a skipping CD, repeating what was last said or heard over and over
> rapidly. Ok,... recent changes i've made. I've had a new video card for
> about a month, but everything worked fine until a week ago. I installed
> the
> two above mentioned video games, which use punkbuster, a product I have no
> experience with. Incidentaly, the problems began about the time I started
> using punkbuster. However, I restored the system to a point previous to
> the
> punk buster installation, and the system is still crashing. Is it my new
> video card (ATI Radeon B2 512 HD 2600 xt PCI), or something else. Any and
> all help would be much appreciated.
> --
> Elderj[/color]


Sounds to me as if your graphics chip is overheating.
Either that or your Vid Card is going belly up.



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