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I've been having problems with my computer crashing for about 5 days now. Before that nothing. Its happened the most when i've been playing CoD MW3 when my screen suddenly loses the connection to the computer an a laggy sound is coming from my speakers. I' can play for 10 minutes to an 1 hour but then it shuts down. Recently i had a crash while playing Minecraft and spotify. When this happens i've had to shut the computer off by holding in the power button.

This i my CPU

AMD Phenom X3 2.10 GHz

3 GB RAM

Nvidia Gforce 9600 GS

Any ideas what to do?

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I am going to guess that your computers are below the specs to play CoD MW3. I also would guess that your computer is overheating. – Ramhound Jan 18 at 19:25
I know it isn't tha good but it hasn been happening before even when i played on medium picture quality and highest res. I think it is a little bit higher then then minimum specs. – Jkguitar Jan 18 at 19:32
In addition to the possibility of overheating, there's the chance that a rogue process is eating up the CPU. Do Ctrl-Alt-Del and Start Task Manager next time and see if there are any processes that seem to be tying things up. When you do this, also look for a disparity between the total %CPU as seen by Task Manager and the % shown when you hover over the Task Manager icon on the tool bar. This would indicate a wild interrupt. – DanH Jan 19 at 12:58
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Make sure your Computer and Graphic card temperatures are low, use Speedfan to monitor temperatures while you play.

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Is the machine over heating?

Issue with the graphics card? Do you have the latest drivers for said videocard?

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There weren't any new updates available. It might be overheating but the strange thing is that it hasn't been doing so until a few days ago. – Jkguitar Jan 18 at 19:31
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So what happened a few days ago? Patch tuesday was last week, did that cause it? Did a fuzzball finally close up that one vent and now it is overheating? Did that capacitor that has been on it's last leg finally blow? There are literally hundreds of possible changes that could happen. You need to do some basic troubleshooting on your system. Test the memory and hard drive at a minimum. Open the case and look for hot components. Reseat all your cards. There are really too many possibilities for anyone else to diagnose the specific problem with the information that you have provided. – EBGreen Jan 18 at 19:41
I think it's the graphics card - the specs for that game are high and the videocard probably was churning as hard as it could go and over heated. PC knows overheat is coming and to avoid damage just shuts off – PSU_Kardi Jan 18 at 20:25
I agree that the video card is a likely culprit, but presumably he had the same video card more than 5 days ago when he did not have the problem. – EBGreen Jan 18 at 20:36
What if he ran a benchmark test on the graphics card and see if it blows up? – PSU_Kardi Jan 18 at 20:47
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