Recent content by G-Snake

Thanks for the advice. It seems as if the PSU was never the issue in the first place. I just swapped in a 500W PSU and the same issue is happening. I've cleaned out my video card pretty well, there was a large build-up of dust buried deep within the heatsinks, perhaps that was the culprit. The...

Unfortunately Future Shop (a retailer in Canada) only had one brand, Dynex, so I was limited by choice. I have used Dynex in the past (before my current Acer tower), and I had no issues with that Dynex PSU.

Yeah, after reading a few other resources, I think overheating is the issue, at least I've pinpointed (or close to) the core issue. I'm also going to check my Bios to see if there's an option to auto-shutdown after it exceeds a certain temperature. Thanks for the responses. I'm at work so I'll...

The PSU is the stock one that came with the PC (which is an Acer Aspire). I'll play a game for between 10-15 minutes, and the game will go black, and then the machine shuts itself off completely (no restart, it's a hard shut off). I have to manually restart the computer after this crash...

Ok I'll try to make this as short and to the point as possible. AMD X2 4200+ Windows XP Pro 2GB Ram ATI Radeon 2600HD 512mb 400W Power Supply (likely the issue) I started playing Fallout 3 on PC, it was running fine, but eventually it would crash, and shut down my entire computer 10-15...

I looked around and couldn't find any blatant topics on this issue. Google returns some confusing results too. Anyway, I'm planning on upgrading my computer shortly in preperation for DX 10, in general, I need a new machine. All I currently use my machine for is gaming (WoW, CS, etc...), Instant...

Hello All... I have a quick question regarding MoBo compatibility with video cards. There is a very good deal right now on an AMD chip with a decent motherboard for boxing day: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=21662&vpn=ADA3700/NF44&manufacture=AMD&promoid=1022 I have a Radeon...