If it was me, the first thing I would do would be trying to find out how hot the GPU is getting when you are playing a game or watching a video. You could use GPU-z or MSI Afterburner (just for temp monitor) and if it is close to the card's temp limit, your next step would be opening the PC and checking if the fans are all working properly, particularly the GPU fans. Make sure they aren't blocked or have a lot of dust in the heat sinks.
If your temps are fine, it is possible that the GPU may be starting to fail. If you have an internal GPU, test the videos on that and see if it is still doing it. If, so it might be software related.
First thing I would do is open the case to see how many fans are in it, if it needs to be cleaned and if the GPU has a fan on it or if it is passively cooled. You need to verify that the 0 RPM readings are due to the fact that your system doesn't monitor fan speeds and not because all your fans are off. Just looking at the temps, it looks like your GPU is running at an acceptable temp, but it is indicating on your pic that the GPU is under 0% load. The best way to see what happens when the GPU is under load is to click the "log to file" box. If the box is already checked, un-check it and click it again and it will ask you where you want to save the log.
If the temps are still within range (under ~70c under load) then you can rule out heat.
Do you have another PC with the same type of PCI or AGP port compatible with this GPU? If so, while your case is open, swap the card out to the other PC and see if it is still doing it. If it works in another PC, you can pretty much rule out the GPU itself and focus on the power supply. If you swap the PSU out of the other PC into the main one and it works fine, your problem is most likely a dying power supply.
Also, if you do decide to open the case up, you should buy a tube of thermal compound such as Arctic Silver MX-5 or Prolimatech PK-1 and replace the old compound on both the CPU and GPU. After you clean all the dust out of course. Even if heat isn't the main issue, doing the dusting and thermal paste will bring your temps down and extend the life of your CPU and GPU.
Sorry for the late reply but I had to get a new HDD since the last one broke! I opened the case to clean it up and oh dude, it was like a sand storm had ravaged that case. (probably because I didn't clean it in a long while.) Anyway I started cleaning it and noticed that the fan which were connected to the motherboard was about to break, I removed it and went to buy a new one, replaced it and after all the intense cleaning I decided it was time to try it out, and then the most disagreeable of all things to ever happen did happen, my hard drive broke taking with it all of my files. It started doing a noise like ~Tic-Tic-Tic~ and no booting, tried getting help but it seems like it can't be helped, I got a new 1TB hard drive and it's great! No more freezing or whatever, my problems are fixed and it's all thanks to you for telling me to check my fans for any damage.
Good to hear it is working properly again. The thermal compound goes in between the CPU and the heat sink. It basically transfers the heat from the chip to the heat sink. The compound is made out of silver or aluminum (sometimes copper) which are both very good conductors of heat. It also serves to create a better contact surface with the heat sink. Since the surfaces are not perfect the compound, being a paste like substance, fills in any areas that are not making contact. The more surface area the heat sink touches, the more heat it removes. It is usually a good idea to replace the compound every few years since over time it begins to become less effective. If your video card has a heat sink, it is a good idea to replace the compound on it as well. The stuff they put on it at the factory is usually cheap and inefficient compared to Arctic Silver. If you decide to do it, just be careful with certain kinds. There are non-conductive ones which don't conduct electricity and won't really matter if you spill a bit on the motherboard except for having goo all over it. The other kind can potentially ruin your PC if you put too much on or spill some in the wrong place. PK-1 is non-conductive and unlike AS does not take a few dozen hours to cure. The elements copper and silver, obviously, are great conductors of electricity, so any paste with them in it should be applied with caution even though the AS site says the conductivity of AS-5 is "negligible".
As for your old data: there are some people who have successfully retrieved data from a bad clicking hard drive by freezing it. I am not joking. The theory is that since metal shrinks or contracts when it gets cooler, the metal parts in the hard drive will make proper contact when frozen and allow it to work for a few minutes until it hits room temperature again. If you have a ton of data, it might take many freezes to get it all... if it works at all.
If you haven't already, first try disk check for errors: My Computer -> right click on hard drive -> tools tab -> click on "check now" under error checking -> check both boxes and click "start". Windows will schedule a full scan of your hard drive the next time your reboot. It takes a while and if there are any fixable errors, it will automatically fix them. This usually works when it is a soft clicking noise like it is reading or writing something over and over. The other click, the click of death is when the needle keeps slamming around in the drive. That is when you either toss it or try the freezing thing.
Hey I built a new computer roughly 3 months ago and its been going well until lately the screen goes black after a split second of scratchy colors everywhere it restarts, also there isn't a blue screen either with the error message. This has happened 3 times now in a month. I figure the problem is probably the motherboard or graphics card. My temperatures across the board are 44C -56c so it isn't a overheat problem and my PSU has more than enough power. This has happened only when I'm gaming, surfing the web, on Teamspeak, and running a background program for the game. Drivers are up to date also. My computer
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