My screen goes black, but is still on. My computer shuts down everything he does and I have to restart so that it become operational.

I said the video card is corrupted or is overheating.
The screen goes black randomly. Sometimes 2 minutes playing or until hours later. Sometimes it will not.

Connect the computer to another monitor. If the problems are gone, replace the original monitor. If the problems persist, then you have hardware problems on your computer. You can troubleshoot the hardware yourself:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

This includes exchanging the video card for a well-known work.

On tests of hardware failures often alleged swapping parts by parts checked. If you can not do the test yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data backed up before taking the machine into a shop.
MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

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