sexecuti0ner
What kinda guy are you are?
+148|6499
Something weird happened today while playing counterstrike: source.  I was in a server and getting about ~160 fps when all of a sudden my monitor goes black and powers off.  At first I thought my entire pc had turned off unexpectedly, but then my monitor restarted.  When it refreshed, it was still in the counterstrike window, but the game was frozen.  I eventually lost my connection to the server and when I exited the game I found my internet was also down.  But after a minute or so, it came back too. 

Does anyone have any idea why something like this would happen or if it's an omen that my PC is about to die or something?  Was there something I did that made both my monitor and internet reset themselves? 

I'm pretty confused about the whole situation, so thanks for any help.
mikkel
Member
+383|6868
Could've been a brief outage long enough to knock out your monitor and your networking devices, but not your PC.
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5984|Vancouver, BC, Canada

mikkel wrote:

Could've been a brief outage long enough to knock out your monitor and your networking devices, but not your PC.
qtf happens to me every once in a while, get a UPS(not that i have one )
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6464|Winland

Could just have been the graphics drivers crashing and resetting. Happens quite often if you run an overclocked nVidia card.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5984|Vancouver, BC, Canada

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Could just have been the graphics drivers crashing and resetting. Happens quite often if you run an overclocked nVidia card.
Doesn't explain the Network going byebye.

Gawd, it'd suck if the power on my modem blew out, I;d get a different Ip and would have to climb the Game-Monitor server rank ladder again.

And all 1 of you would have to update yer favs.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6464|Winland

TheDonkey wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Could just have been the graphics drivers crashing and resetting. Happens quite often if you run an overclocked nVidia card.
Doesn't explain the Network going byebye.

Gawd, it'd suck if the power on my modem blew out, I;d get a different Ip and would have to climb the Game-Monitor server rank ladder again.

And all 1 of you would have to update yer favs.
One driver crash rarely comes alone. Just a couple of days ago, my NIC-, sound-, keyboard- and disk controller drivers crashed due to my graphics card drivers having to reset. It's a bit extreme, but that stuff does happen.

It could also be so that the system completely froze during the crash, dropping the connection.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

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