Video card or motherboard problems?

Recently my computer has been crashing when I'm playing graphic intense games and when watching videos(and sometimes it will just be sitting there without any programs in the background running). Most of the time it will just shut down and try to reboot, but it will make these strange long beeping sounds(one long beep, two short;when I checked it said something about video card problems). My husband has tried putting the video card in a different slot but it still does the same thing.



Could it be the video card itself or the motherboard? Is there some sort of test to tell what it is?|||It sounds like it is your video card. Putting it in a different slot will more than likely not fix anything if the video card itself is bad. What you could try to do is buy a cheap video card from someone or like Best Buy and try putting that video card into your computer and see if that fixes the problem. Make sure though that you can take the video card back if it is not the problem or if your video card is the problem but you decide you want a better one than the one you tested from the store.



You said it was making beeping noises that you looked up each motherboard has its own distinct set of system tones the beeping noises that you heard that signal what might be wrong.



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then you can either call the manufacturer or Google the motherboard and the beep pattern to see what is wrong.|||Beep codes during boot indicate that a problem was detected, but a message can't be displayed on the screen. A video card problem would certainly fall into that category.



Could be that your video card is overheating and shutting down. Since it is still hot, it might not be detected during a reboot.



If it is heat related, it would be a good idea to clean the dust out of the PC with a vacuum cleaner. Also, check that all of the fans are operating - especially any fan mounted at the front of the case. (That one would have the greatest effect on the video card.)



If that doesn't help, install another video card. Perhaps your husband could borrow one from another computer for test purposes.|||i also had that problem before. but,the problem settled after i change my motherboard. to test which one is the problem,first you try to download the latest driver for your motherboard and your graphic card.if this don`t settle it,try to remove your graphic card,just use your integrated graphic on board. if the problem still occur,then the problem is at your motherboard. mth_29@yahoo.com