Predator Orion 3000 Video suddenly gets "no Signal", needs hard reboot

Hi there,

So the issue I am getting is only during gaming (so far). I have played two games that start out fine then after about 2 minutes of play, the screen gets choppy and the mouse control gets wacked. If I don't immediately back out of the game, the screen goes blank and the monitor says there is "No Signal", even though the PC appears to still be running. I try to Ctrl-Tab out but nothing happens. In fact no keyboard response is evident when I try Ctrl-Alt-Del. I need a hard boot to get back, which I know is not good for the system.

Thinking it might be a heat issue, I ramped up the fans in the Predator utility, because they don't automatically run faster. No change. I am beginning to think it is a video card problem.

The two games in question are Assassin's Creed Unity and Call of Duty 2.

The only mods I have done are adding the HDD and SSD from my old PC and added a USB keyboard/mouse combo.

Here is what I bought from Walmart:

Acer Predator Orion 3000 PO3-630G-UW91 Desktop, 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400F, GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, 8GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD, Intel Wireless Wi-Fi 6 AX201 802.11ax, USB Keyboard and Mouse, Windows 10 Home

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Commodore_1995#

I think this is because the video card may be vibrating due to the high rotation of the fans. I advise unplugging the video card and plugging it back into the slot again.

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egydiocoelho said:

I think this is because the video card may be vibrating due to the high rotation of the fans. I advise unplugging the video card and plugging it back into the slot again.