My computer is richarding up, can anyone tell me what is wrong?

[yuki]

My PC will seize up frequently, but it really takes a stuff when my monitor flickers and artifacts appear all over the screen. Occasionally, I'll get a bluescreen error about watchdog.sys or my video drivers (which I've reinstalled numerous times). Other times, it'll lock up, artifacts will appear, and the screen will flicker repeatedly without going to a bluescreen. What the richards is going on?

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[Zephyrs]

My computer likes to turn off while playing games. It's most likely my power supply.

[IkeTheGeneric]

It's:

A virus
A stuffty computer
A very bad problem that is probably your fault
A space and time traveling octopus that is zapping your computer with cancer

[dkamm65]

My laptop was doing something similar with the display, flickering and having red pixels appearing on black colors. What fixed it was opening up the bezel and un-kinking the wire connecting the monitor. It still flickers occasionally, but I think that's due to the wear and tear of opening and closing the screen over 2 years.

[yuki]

It's:

A virus
A stuffty computer
A very bad problem that is probably your fault
A space and time traveling octopus that is zapping your computer with cancer

-Scanned using multiple programs, nothing.
-My computer is quite fine.
-Somehow I have no idea what I could have done to cause this. It just started happening a few weeks ago.
-MUST BE IT

My laptop was doing something similar with the display, flickering and having red pixels appearing on black colors. What fixed it was opening up the bezel and un-kinking the wire connecting the monitor. It still flickers occasionally, but I think that's due to the wear and tear of opening and closing the screen over 2 years.

That doesn't explain why the entire system crashes and not just the monitor being weird.

[HaloHalo]

Motherboard dying?

[Miga]

Your GPU's dying, 99% of the PC's I've seen do this had to have their GPU's replaced, including mine.

[Dodger]

Your GPU's dying, 99% of the PC's I've seen do this had to have their GPU's replaced, including mine.

How old is your GPU, yuki?

[yuki]

Your GPU's dying, 99% of the PC's I've seen do this had to have their GPU's replaced, including mine.

Now if you could tell me what a GPU is and/or looks like, that'd be wonderful.

[Miga]

Now if you could tell me what a GPU is and/or looks like, that'd be wonderful.

Video card..?

[Azerath]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

[Kobewarrior]

Stop downloading research. Just check GPU bro.

[yuki]

I don't know why I didn't know a GPU is a graphics card, but that's probably it. Oh well, thanks for the help.

[Miga]

Before you go out and buy a new one though, take the one out of your PC, blow off the connectors and put it back in.
That's all that was wrong with one of my older cards (8800 GT) that I thought broke, did something similar, turns out it was a bad connection.

[skelolego229]

my computers richarding up

Obviously you should download less gay research