When ever i play any game, the computer will freeze up and do one of 4 things, either freeze and there will be a 1x1 sq. inch block in the top left hand corner of the screen and whenever you move the mouse it goes crazy with color lines going verticly and horizontaly as you move it... no order at all completly random. or it will just go straight to the black screen, or it will freeze for a split second and then the screen shows a bunch of colord lines going verticly, or it will freeze and go to this window OUT OF FREQUENCY HF:11.7kHz VF:255.0Hz OPERATING FREQUENCY HF:30-96kHz VF:50-160Hz POWER MANAGEMENT X seconds counting down. In all cases the sound is jammed creating an annoying ticking noise, and in some cases I am unable to press the reset button on the computer... I can only do an emergancy shut down holding the power button or let it be blank... almost in a standby state. Ive downloaded and installed all the drivers for my videocard and got the .NET frameworks, tried a different monitor and am only left to think my videocard is fried... is there anything that I can try to attempt to fix this problem... i desprately need your help thank you

what kind of video card do you have? and what kind of mother board also i am having similar problems and i am stuck with the mother board cause myvideo card is new and the mother board is crap and my problem is ill be playing a game and the screen will just be back and the little light on the monitor will blink just like in standby mode. help help HELP!!!!!!!!!

Im not sure what kind of motherboard it is, its a used computer a good frind had and my brother bought it off him when he upgraded. I know that it is a Radeon 9800 pro 256mb, not the all in wonder deal from ATI. I dont really have any idea what is going on or how to fix this problem... im really starting to believe that the video card is fried... because im running out of things to try, although I dont understand computers much

Have u tried lowering the graphic settings and resolution of the game to the lowest?

Yes, ive turned the "eye candy" way down and to a few lower than the highest on the resoulution... like 1280x1100 or somthing like that, not 1600x1400 i think... i dont know... anyway yeah ive tried that and ive tried 2 different monitors, my friend at school said that it could be the refresh rate on the monitor isnt the same as on the computer, causeing the out of frequency...for the sake of conflict, Ive used different monitors and got the same results... i think its something to do with the video card... has there been cases of a video card just all of a sudden corrupting or somthing of that matter? But my components should be able to handle all of this and more... i dont understand and its driving me CRAZY!!!!!!!! im fcuking lvl 16 and its taken me like 2 weeks..... i cant do anything its pretty unfortunate

well how about this i am ordering my new mother board today so when i get it and install it and see if it works ill give you the heads up, ill keep you informed. help help HELP!!!!!!!!!

alright thanks, i just tried to clean the video card a little bit... i thought some dust might have gotten into it... not the case... it still fed up. I think i will try to find a new video card.