Older computer shutting off while playing games.

[Azureth]

Now this all started after I rearranged my room and moved the computer. When I started it up it brought up a warning saying "Chip fail" so I pressed F1 to skip and when on the desktop or just browsing the internet it works fine but as soon as a game starts it shuts down. What's weird is it doesn't specify what chip failed, just said chip fail. Any ideas?

Specs:

Mobo: ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD

Proccessor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2.0GHz Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX

Graphics Card: EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Channels PCI

Memory: CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)

 

[lowteckh]

Googling "ASUS A8N chip fail" (http://www.google.com/ it's a search engine that is pretty good, maybe you've heard the term google - that's what it means) produced about 8-9 results out of 10 that hint that it's a failed fan chip. Check to see if it's spinning.

 

[Drakan290]

Googling "ASUS A8N chip fail" (http://www.google.com/ it's a search engine that is pretty good, maybe you've heard the term google - that's what it means)

I rofl'd

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