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Random Shut Down Greatness

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PIGDOG

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So I'm watching a movie with a young lady on my computer and blam its shuts down. The monitor turns to powersave and the computer is off (fans all stop spinning, but the little green powerlight led is still on). If I press the power button the fans start to spin and then stop, I have to cut the powersource (turn off the ups) then turn that back on before I can restart it. I'm not sure what causing this, maybe the cpu overheating or the powersupply is messed up? Any suggestions for what may be wrong or how I could figure it out? Sometimes now when I restart it from windows it just shuts off and I have to do the same process to get it going. Thanks.

My specs:
windows xp pro all upated.
amd athlon xp 2000+ stock heatsink & fan
asus a7v333
512mb crucial ddr 2100
geforce4 ti4200
creative audigy 2
linksys network card
antec 430w true power
2 80mm antec exhaust case fans
2 80mm vantec stealth intake fans
60gb maxtor ide harddrive
120 western digital hardrive
liteon dvd rom drive
legacy floppy drive
 
Im not an expert on this however since noone has replied I will give you what little advice I can. I recently had a similar issue and did the following which fixed it. My MOBO (ASUX A7N8X Deluxe) has the CPU overheating protection on it FYI.

1) Removed / cleaned processor and reapplied thermal grease
2) Removed ram and cleaned connections
3) Update your BIOS

Hope this helps a little...

...and if that dosent work you may want to try a new PSU
 
Thanks for the reply. I haven't had a chance to try your suggestions, I'll give them a go on the weekend and then let you know if they work. However, windows error reporting thinks this is a driver conflict, but doesn't know what driver or really anything more than a big fat maybe. I'm still at a loss for figuring out what is causing it, I've tried a fresh install of windows on my one harddrive and it still crashes randomly which makes me think that your last suggestion is the best one...the only question is which psu do I buy ;).
 
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