WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!

[FreedomFighter7]

SERIOUSLY!?! A few months ago my computer started freezing up when I play games, or even watch youtube videos or use a 3d modeling program!!! Sometimes it will freeze, and I'll have to press Ctrl Alt Delete to unfreeze it, and then wait for it to bring the game back up. Other times the frames will stop rolling, and I'll see some weird shit and it will go back to normal. On some days it will do this, every few seconds, other times every few minutes. When I play COD4 it freezes all the fucking time!!!! It makes the game unplayable!!

Most of the time it shows these weird thing on the geometry on the screen, like an array of colored squares every few feet, or some weird spot will appear on the screen somewhere for half a second then appear somewhere else!! Sometimes it will show a long piece of geometry stretching from some object on the screen to some random place far off in the game world!!

Speedfan says my graphics card is heating up to like 114 degrees, or 120 degrees, but when I touch my hand to it, it feels fine!!! I have a Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT. I've scoured the internet and found no fixes for it!!

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG AND HOW DO I FIX IT!?

[Gwunty]

Your Graphics card is fucked
you need a new one

[Con]

Most of the time it shows these weird thing on the geometry on the screen, like an array of colored squares every few feet, or some weird spot will appear on the screen somewhere for half a second then appear somewhere else!! Sometimes it will show a long piece of geometry stretching from some object on the screen to some random place far off in the game world!!

typical effects of an overheating graphics card

[InnerGoat]

Sounds like the heatsink is loose if it's not even warm.. heh. I don't know why you never looked into the issue until now, but that gpu needs to be RMAed...

[Needles]

SERIOUSLY!?! A few months ago my computer started freezing up when I play games, or even watch youtube videos or use a 3d modeling program!!! Sometimes it will freeze, and I'll have to press Ctrl Alt Delete to unfreeze it, and then wait for it to bring the game back up. Other times the frames will stop rolling, and I'll see some weird shit and it will go back to normal. On some days it will do this, every few seconds, other times every few minutes. When I play COD4 it freezes all the fucking time!!!! It makes the game unplayable!!

Most of the time it shows these weird thing on the geometry on the screen, like an array of colored squares every few feet, or some weird spot will appear on the screen somewhere for half a second then appear somewhere else!! Sometimes it will show a long piece of geometry stretching from some object on the screen to some random place far off in the game world!!

Speedfan says my graphics card is heating up to like 114 degrees, or 120 degrees, but when I touch my hand to it, it feels fine!!! I have a Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT. I've scoured the internet and found no fixes for it!!

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG AND HOW DO I FIX IT!?

Happened to me too..
I would try playing less on your pc (and try shutting it off for the night), try keeping it in a colder room (my old room it was in was my dad's office with shitty AC, like 90 degress in there), and maybe using rivatuner to change fan speeds to force the fan high.

You should be able to google rivaturner,
http://www.guru3d.com/article/rivatuner-20-fan-speed--overclock-guide/

And there is a tutorial on how to force up fan speed, since my windows vista runs everything at 20% fan speed. Also, try making sure in power settings your CPU is set to highest performance, not energy saving. It changed itself after my pc decided to automatic update, caused me a lot of game lag (especially in cod4 and my crysis games).

Doing all that my framerates are pretty stable now and I don't overheat a lot anymore.

[Jelly]

SERIOUSLY!?! A few months ago my computer started freezing up when I play games, or even watch youtube videos or use a 3d modeling program!!! Sometimes it will freeze, and I'll have to press Ctrl Alt Delete to unfreeze it, and then wait for it to bring the game back up. Other times the frames will stop rolling, and I'll see some weird shit and it will go back to normal. On some days it will do this, every few seconds, other times every few minutes. When I play COD4 it freezes all the fucking time!!!! It makes the game unplayable!!

Most of the time it shows these weird thing on the geometry on the screen, like an array of colored squares every few feet, or some weird spot will appear on the screen somewhere for half a second then appear somewhere else!! Sometimes it will show a long piece of geometry stretching from some object on the screen to some random place far off in the game world!!

Speedfan says my graphics card is heating up to like 114 degrees, or 120 degrees, but when I touch my hand to it, it feels fine!!! I have a Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT. I've scoured the internet and found no fixes for it!!

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG AND HOW DO I FIX IT!?
Clean dust from your computer (I recommend using an air duster) and yeah what goat said; check that your fan and heatsink are actually attached properly to your graphics card.

[legionaire45]

If you card is still in warranty, RMA it.

If it isn't, take the heatsink off, reapply thermal paste/clean out dust and remount it. Hopefully, it isn't permanently damaged at this point...

If it still does it after that, your card is probably damaged. You'll want to buy a new one at that point.

[Rob Oplawar]

SERIOUSLY!?! A few months ago my computer started freezing up when I play games, or even watch youtube videos or use a 3d modeling program!!! Sometimes it will freeze, and I'll have to press Ctrl Alt Delete to unfreeze it
You have Windows. :mysterysolved:

[Limited]

A side from the hardware issues (make sure GPU fan is actually working), you running the most up to date drivers?