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New computer, new problems...

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Shotgun Jimmy

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Alrighty, I just got myself a new computer, had my friend build it for me. The specs are: Geforce FX 5900, 1 gig DDR RAM, 3.0ghz Intel Prescott, Asus P4C800 deluxe mobo, and a Koolance liquid cooled case. The problem I'm having is random reboots/crash to desktops while playing games (Battlefield: Vietnam, Painkiller, FarCry, etc.). So, my question for people smarter than me, what could the problem be? The highest temp I've seen my CPU at is 93, never higher than that, and it doesn't crash when it reaches a certain temp, it happens at all sorts of temperatures....any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Games crashing to desktop / random reboots / etc sounds like you have a memory problem.
Run Memtest86 to check for errors.
The only good result is no errors with that test.

Luck........ :D
 
It may be your ram. Go to www.memtest.org and download the "Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)". Make the boot disk, then reboot. Let Memtest86+ run through 2 complete passes and see if any memory problems show up.
 
Dammit! The guy who built my computer "You don't need a floppy, no, screw you, I'm not gonna put a floppy drive in your computer even though you already have one, its just a waste of space!" :rolleyes: Thats what I get for not having this done professionally...any other way to use memtest?
 
Make yourself a bootable cd and copy the memtest iso onto it.

Luck........ :D
 
Heh, you can work around the floppy drive if you have to, but so many things are so much easier with them... Memtest, Emergency bios updates, Raid Drivers for Win2000 install, Transfering small files...
 
Well, I checked my RAM, no problems there. So, being perplexed, I decided to play some Battlefield. Again, it crashes, so I decide to check the temperature that the BIOS said the CPU was at....123 degrees farenheit :eek: So...the only thing I can think of, because I do have a liquid cooled case, is that I incorrectly installed it/didn't use enough thermal paste stuff (I didn't have very much left...). So, my last question, do you think more thermal paste would fix the problem? Or is it that I installed it wrong? Or do Koolance cases suck? :p Thanks again for the help guys :)
 
123F is not that bad for a prescott. I ran a 2.8E at 155F(Prime95x2) for an hour and it was completely stable. Is your video card over heating? Are you overclocking your cpu? If you are oc'ing using the FSB does your mobo have an AGP/PCI divider? That could be causing the reboots. My PC rebooted when playing games until I discovered that the fan on my vid card died. Ghetto-rigged an intel fan onto it and now I can play games again, yay! :D
 
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