My computer crashes while playing games. Help?

[2JZ_]

Just recently, my PC has had a tendency to crash only during game play. It only happens sometimes and usually after about five minutes. The screen goes completely black, and the audio loops continuously until I hard restart the machine. 

 

Does anyone have any suggestions or possible solutions? 

 

Thank you for the help!

[Xsilent(X)]

Reinstall gpu drivers or roll back a driver do a clean driver install.

[theodoro]

That happened to me once and i fixed it just by re-inserting the GPU. For some reason it wasn't making good contact at the PCI-e.

[2JZ_]

Okay, ill give it a shot. Thanks!

[Taswell]

Sounds Like a Graphics Driver Problem. You can try manually updating them from the manufacturer website.

 

List your System Specs including overclocks and sli/crossfire

[2JZ_]

The specs of my system are: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard AMD FX-9590 8 Core, no overclock at 4.7GHz 16G of ADATA XPG V3 DDR3 2133 Memory AMD R9 290x MSI Gaming 4G at 1250MHz Memory Clock 240mm Asetek CPU liquid cooling w/dual Noctua NF-F12 Industrial PPC.

Windows 8.1 64bit OS

[2JZ_]

Might sound really dumb, but if it was a GPU driver or hardware problem, wouldn't it happen every time? Not just sometimes?

 

Also I re installed the drivers and the same issue is still occurring. Could it be a motherboard issue?

[Altecice]

go back to driver 14.7

[Xsilent(X)]

try previous drivers

[2JZ_]

Okay, that worked. Thanks for the help