When running certain games (League of Legends, Worms, etc.) or skyping, my computer has started shutting off and the screen becomes solid with vertical green lines. This happens primarily when I have my external monitor plugged in. After this happens and I restart my computer, my external monitor says "input not recognized". After waiting 5-10 minutes the problem seems to fix itself and I can start my computer normally.
The reason i'm running an external monitor in the first place is because the screen on my laptop hasn't been working since September XD.
Any help or information on this problem would be greatly appreciated!
Thank,
-Joe

Hey Tom,
Thanks for helping me out here!
Ok, I've done that. So hopefully that will solve the problem.
I also wanted to mention I've been seeing error messages saying " Display Driver atikmday stopped working and has recovered. I guess this supports your theory on the display driver being in bad shape
Also, I thought it may have had something to do with how hot my computer was getting. I ran a heat management program and found my motherboard running at almost 105*C, so that can't be good...Since reducing my computer down to 'power save' mode, and had the heat keeping steady around 67*C, I haven't had the problem again.
I do already have a cooling tray but I guess that's just not working enough.
Any other ways to reduce the heat of my computer further?
Thanks again,
-Joe

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 6:31:36 PM, on 24/04/2011
Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.19048)
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I've tried posting a response, but i get a message saying a mediator has to check it or something?
I'll just attach the file...

Ok. done and done. now what?