problem black screen crash

pigeon boy

pigeon boy

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hi im new to the forum and was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on my problem.
right this is my specs

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit + VISTA 32 BIT
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2300 CPU @ 2.80GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM DDR3
Card name: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (5750) 1GB DDR5
Monitor Name: Acer LCD Monitor AL1916w
Ralink RT61 Turbo Wireless LAN Card
mother board: ASUS P8H61-MLE
PSU 400W
HARD DRIVES: 2 X 640GB SEAGATE

the pc was built 1 year ago by what i thought was a good pc place, Right im new to all this so, when i play battlefield / black ops / mw3 after 1-3 minutes in game the screen goes black and theres a loud buzzing from the speakers and i cant enter task manager and have to turn it off with the main power button as nothing else will work, ive had this problem now for a few months but the pc is about a year old it did it now and again when battlefield first came out but it is now unplayable so has got worse, i ran furmark and the gpu was running at 75oC so bought a new case a powercool dominator and re-cased it, the gpu now runs at 64oC when running furmark, but while running furmark it has never cut out,
now im no pc expert but am learning and the only thing i can think is that the psu is slightly underpowered so will possibly be ordering a 750w, but would this cause the black screen and buzzing ?

help please im pulling my hair out
thanks
dave
 
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ok thanks for the replies
chkdsk is showing no bad sectors if thats what im supposed to be looking for ?
the windows mem test was all ok so was the memtest86
so what is the next step? i
 
right im running bf3 in low settings which seem really clear considering its in low settings, the resolution is set at 1440x900
managed to play 1 full game in a server with 6 players, so tried it in a full server and result was a minute of gameplay then crash, just going to reboot now and run it on my other hard drive with vista installed and try it on black ops to see how that goes
oh and the card is a 5750
on a few occasions ive had it crash while playing texas holdem poker on facebook
 
right when running on the hard drive with windows 7 bf3 crashes in under a minute now with all settings on low
when running on the hard drive with windows vista i can nearly manage a full game on bf3 and even crashes on black ops ( not tried black ops recently on w7 hdd but it did the same lat time i tried)
both psu's are doing the same thing
after reading the comments its seams that my 5750 is drawing too much from my psu's, which my old fujitstsu used to run black ops but that means nothing as it could be the graphics card is pulling too much is the 5750 really that demanding, the fujitsu used to run the nvidia 9600gt
this pc was a replacement for my old fujitsu through the insurance as my fujitsu was dropped causing too much damage to consider it a viable repair
just to sum it up when this rig was new i played bf3 for 40+ hours with no issues then it started crashing so blamed bf3 for it but went back to it to sort the problem only to find out that its happening on all my pc games, i also have an xbox so went to that for gaming but fps arent the same on an xbox
so thinking now that if i get a cheap psu (but not an alpine) maybe a evo labs just to try and see if it sorts the problem then if it does upgrade to a corsair if it doesnt then a graphics upgrade and back to nvidia
its just doing my head in
but on a + side ive learnt more about pc building in the last month than i thought i ever would lol
 
right, installed the new 750w psu updated the gpu drivers and the direct x 11 drivers, went into a light server on bf3 with only 9 players and managed 20 mins before the black screen crash again, so went into a 64 player server and lasted about 2 mins, this even happend tonight while browsing some pictures on face book then grrrr black screen and buzzing,
after browsing the net about this i have read many questions about this all on the hd5750 and not many have had their problems resolved either that or they havent bothered to reply when it is fixed,
so now i have tried 2 operating systems on 2 seperate hdd's changed the case where i can control the front and rear fan speeds and have run them on full and the front fan blows directly at the graphics card,
the way i figure it there are only 2 components left the mobo and the gpu
im thinking that it could be the gpu, well maybe hoping, now im not prepared to throw much more money at this as im thinking that if another £50 doesnt sort it then im going to give up pc gaming
the other option i have for the £50 budget is try another graphics card an nvidia 260gtx ive seen a few on ebay second hand for under £50 and know a friend of mine for bf3 was using an 8800gt till he fried it then got a second hand 260gtx of a mate and now hes playing successfully at medium settings which is better than im managing
so what do you think could it be a **** gpu or mobo, this has been ongoing now since december 2011 and im losing faith in pc gaiming, ive even bought an xbox so i can still get my fix lol
 
well dram speed was at 1099??? changed it to 1066 and put in the gainward gtx260 "golden edition " and managed to play 10 mins in a 64 player metro server till i got bored and not 1 hicup must have benn the hd5750 that was the problem this will now be put in my kids pc so the can watch bluray dvds in thier bedroom

and just to add the heatsink pipes and all on the gainward gtx 260 is a work of art, showed my mate at work a pic of it today and he branded it as "pc porn" lol
 
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