
Sometimes I have to try restarting a few times before it will work. It also sometimes has problems turning back on if it goes to sleep where it fails so I have to restart and then it resumes where I was at. I re-updated my drivers, leaving out the last update and now it starts fine, but it still crashes whenever I play a game. I did a system restore, which failed the first 10 attempts or so, and that eventually got it working again. I shut off my pc, the next morning the black screen happened again. I decided not to try any more games and called it quits for the night. I updated, then it showed me anotehr update that I was supposed to get so I updated it again.

I remembered that since the format I hadn't updated any drivers, so I did that. Rinse and repeat that with a few different games. Shortly after I tried playing a game and it crashed. Eventually what happened was I reformatted my harddrive, reinstalled windows 7 and it started working again. When he told me what happened I tried to fix it. Usually at this point the computer goes to the log in screen but this time it stayed black, and there was a cursor flashing in the upper left corner. When he turned it back on it showed the first loading screen and then it went black. According to him he was playing Sniper Elite on Steam, everything was fine, then out of nowhere the computer crashed. A while back my computer had a problem that started while my roomate was on it.

This is sort of a long story, so strap it. Ok I don't know if this is the correct forum but i figured since it coincides with gaming, i'd give it a shot.
