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slothahoy

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Dec 5, 2007
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This has only started happening recently but maybe once or twice a week when I'm running a program (which so far has only been Warcraft 3 and WoW), the screen will randomly go completely black and freeze. So far, the only way I've been able to get rid of it was to let it run out of power and then reboot it, though I'm not sure if that's as bad as force shutdown or not. Anyways...

1. Is there a certain reason(s) that causes this to happen? What could I do to prevent it in the future?

2. Is letting my computer die like that the same thing as force shutdown? Something about force shutdown bugs me so I always try to find alternatives...
 
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