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shadowbreaker513

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I think something in my computer is overheating. At first I thought it was the video card since that is normally the hottest running piece. Occasionally while playing World of Warcraft over the past 2 weeks or so, and usually while moving the computer to switch out headphones for speakers or plug in a different mouse, i would lose all picture, the moniter would blink off, but the rest of the computer would keep running and the sound would keep going. Earlier today, this happened during the middle of an instance run in World of Warcraft wtihout me touching the computer. The difference this time was, it didn't come back on. I had to let the computer sit for 20 minutes before the picture would come back. I tried taking the video card out and using the integrated video, but upon starting World of Warcraft, I got a "Memory could not be 'read'" error. I finally got it back up and running with the video card in there and working. When I booted it back up, I checked the temperature of the card and it was actually lower than normal. Just to be safe, I left the sides off of my case (Aspire X-Qpack). I booted up World of Warcraft and everything seemed to be fine. However while standing in the middle of a city, the entire computer just spontaneously shut down. No warning, no nothing. I couldn't turn it back on when I pressed the power button and I had to unplug it and let the psu drain completely first. I have it up and running now but I am wary of running my game anymore. Also, it BIOS seems to have been reset since I can't use my USB keyboard anymore before Windows starts up. Right now the only idea I have is to move it back into my older, bigger case with the Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard, put it on the floor, leave the side open, and see how it runs. Anybody else have a suggestion?
 
1) Run memtest

2) Try a different power supply to see if that's the problem

3) As for WoW, try uninstalling and reinstalling. Sometimes, files get corrupted when Windows is forcibly shut down.
 
I would try another psu but niether of the extra ones I have laying around could probably even boot this rig up. Also, do you know of a program that lets me burn a bootable CD? Used the Nero trial already and I don't have a floppy.
 
You say you have integrated graphics, so I assume it is an intel cpu. The cpu might be overheating, expecially if it is a preshott.
 
k sry. I forgot to look until I clicked reply. too lazy to go back and it doesn't show the sigs in the reply window.
 
Wow, found the problem. It shut down again and I had a sneaky suspicion that the processor was overheating. I touched the heatsink and almost burned myself. I went into the BIOS and checked the temp. 85C! OUCH! I immediatly shut it down. I took the entire computer apart, put it back into the older, normal size case. Switched back to stock heatsink with a pumped up fan, and turned the AC down. Worked like a charm. Last reading was about 45C. Not a great temperature but still nowhere near where it was before. I figure even if it goes up to 55C it's nothing to worry about considering there is only 1 working fan in there right now (working on getting the other ones spinning)
 
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