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2004-01-02, 5:57 PM #1
First off, how many people actually check the Technology Forum?

Okay, here's my problem. Whenever I play a game for over about 15 minutes, my computer gets a black screen, or restarts. This all started after I put my new hard drive in, so I was wondering if it's a hard drive problem, or is the extra heat from the hard drive making my video card overheat or something?

Specs:
Windows XP SP1
MS-6390 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 1800+ XP
256MB DDR
NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200
1-30GB Quantum 7200RPM HD
1-120GB Maxtor 72000RPM HD

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2004-01-02, 5:59 PM #2
It could definatly be a heat problem, do you have a temperature monitor?

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2004-01-02, 5:59 PM #3
Update your Windows SPs

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2004-01-02, 6:01 PM #4
Everything is up to date.

Yes, my CPU temp is running at 45°C, which I think is acceptable. I'm not able to tell the temperature of my video card, but I did take the side of my case, and I have a fan blowing on it. This hasn't helped however.

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2004-01-02, 6:02 PM #5
Could be a power problem as well. Might need to get a new power source with more juice.

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2004-01-02, 6:11 PM #6
I have a 300W power supply which I just bought not too long ago.

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2004-01-03, 12:49 AM #7
Enough people check the tech forum.

Something to do with hibernation?

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2004-01-03, 1:17 AM #8
Random restarting sounds like two things:

a) Virus
b) Overheating

It's most likely the second one. Maybe whilst installing the HD, you knocked out a fan or something? Open it up and check it out! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-01-03, 3:23 PM #9
All the fans are still working, and I even added another one today. I was thinking about buying some aftermarket cooling for my video card.

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2004-01-03, 4:07 PM #10
And not everything's up to date, you need to get up to I think it's SP4 now?? That is, unless you updated it since this thread was posted.

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2004-01-03, 5:06 PM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by siliconcowboy:
I have a 300W power supply which I just bought not too long ago.

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That's actually not that much. I have a 450watt. For that system a 350-400 would be good. Especially since you have 2 HDs.

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2004-01-03, 6:28 PM #12
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dj Yoshi:
And not everything's up to date, you need to get up to I think it's SP4 now?? That is, unless you updated it since this thread was posted.

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Um... no, the latest service pack for XP is 1a.
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