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Computer randomly restarts under low stress

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Limp Gawd
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Jan 22, 2005
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Hey Guys,

Recently I have been experiencing random restarts when I am doing anything media-intensive on my PC, whether it be streaming a video or playing a game. If I am just surfing the internet its fine. What happens is the sound starts to skip and by the time I notice it happening my screen freezes and I get restarted.No bluescreen, nothing (I know this because I set my windows to not reset with a bluescreen fail).

I OC my processor but I know for a fact the temp. is ok because it was playing fine for months before this. My gfx card was OC'd also but I set it back to factory settings and it still crashes the same way. I tried reformatting, checking RAM, etc. Nothing.

My power supply is 550W Antec Truepower but its around 5 years old and maybe its beginning to die? That is really the only conclusion I can come up with if anyone has or solved this problem please help!

Specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
Nvidia Geforce 98000GT
ECS black series chipset GF8200A
4GB RAM (not sure which type but doesn't matter)
Samsung HD 120GB (this might be the issue also since this is same age as PS)
Antec Truepower 550W Power Supply
AMD X2 4200+ dual core
 
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