My computer keeps crashing on games

[GreatDanePuppy]

For a few months now, my computer has been screwing up, giving me bluescreens, the color screws up, goes to powersave randomly for some unknown reason, and keeps crashing when i play my games.
TF2, L4D2, MW2, and BFBC2
Somedays it would crash a few minutes into it, or it wouldn't crash for a few days/weeks.
It happened again and this time the computer wouldn't start for a few days, its fine now, but i can't play anything now.
Does anyone know why and how

Keep answers reasonably simple please.

 

[tkrl26]

My .02 cents...

I would agree with all of that, but I would like to add one more food for thought...
Try physically looking at your motherboard, it almost sounds like you have blown compactors. Caps are cylinder, they range in height, they have an X on the top, and they should be flat across the top.

Look for caps. that are leaking acid, or are bubbled at the top where the X is (should be flat)...

Caps store power, and if certain components request more power than the cap can give, you will get a BSOD, or your system will hang. Replacing the motherboard is the only option if you have blown caps

This doesn't happen very often any more, but on older systems it is pretty common. Especially when you constantly beat the system up or it is exposed to alot of heat...

Best of luck!

 

[fnwiseguy]

TKLR,
Although you bring up a valid point, Motherboards today are either on or off, and if an error such as you are talking about will not even allow it to boot up. This person said their problem is when they start up games. Although I would agree you should look at your motherboard from time to time for maintenance purposes, I doubt this particular problem has anything to do with motherboard component failure, especially due to the fact there would also be a message with the blue screen with the error number, which in this case is not happening.