• Audio looping and monitor signal loss.
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Every once and a while (maybe once a week) when I'm playing a game my computer locks up, the audio loops, and my monitor says no input found. The looping audio continues until I restart my computer. What could cause this? besides overheating, my GPU only hits 80C max under load (8800 GTS is unnaturally hot all the time anyway)
Normally its the GPU basically turning off. So overheating or defective hardware could be blamed. But I would look into updating drivers.
I have the 196.21 drivers. Which according to Nvidia, are the latest ones.
Your GPU might be on the fritz. Its either losing power, or shutting off. Check your event viewer when it happens again, make sure you log the approximate time. If there is a critical error, it should show up in the eventvwr system log.
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