Help! My computer freezes, then graphics glitch, and computer restarts!

captainpizzaboi

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A few days ago, my computer started crashing as described in the title. This never happened before, and now it is happening very often while i am playing games. I have a picture to show you what happens: http://imgur.com/4C1bLXl,VSmxLnw

In some cases, the computer doesn't restarts; It just returns back to normal and gives me this error message: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3007
In another case, my computer freezes when the graphics glitch, or it blue screens and restarts. However, i think this happens because my video card can't keep up with my processor.

I am very confused to why this happens. It started a few days ago and is happening A LOT more often when i play games (it hasn't happened when i was playing games). Please, help me. Thank you.

Some properties of my computer (I can't find the other parts, and neither do I know them):

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 645 Processor 3.10 GHz
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
RAM: 8 gigs installed

 
That seems to be a graphics card issue.
Check that the graphics card is securely placed in the PCI-E slot.
Also check the temperatures of the GPU during games.
Also what CPU and RAM utilization are you at?
 

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