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« on: March 08, 2010, 02:28:11 PM »
So last night I'm playing some STO when out of the blue my screen goes blank and switches to the digital label and the lil power light on the monitor starts blinking. That only happens when I turn my PC off. My PC was still running. So I tried to figure out why it is doing this and turns out that my video card is in the process of overheating and shutting itself down. How do I know this? I have a burn on my finger from trying to push it in to make sure it wasn't coming loose. In any event, I took a portable fan, lugged it to the side of my PC tower and have the thing on at full blast. Think this will help any? I'm hoping so as it has been doing this repeatedly from just sitting on the desktop with nothing running.
In any case, discuss temporary fixes you make to your computer to keep it working until you can get something to fix or replace the problem.