hey all please help me out here. Two games do this to my computer that i know of right now and its Black and White 2, and Star wars Empire at war. Now i dont know why they do this but it is pissing me off badly. please help my specs for my home made computer are as follows.

NForce4 ultra Pci Express Motherboard-939 scoket AMD Athlon 64/64 FX

CPU- AMD A64 4000+ 2.4g 939

Video- BIOSTAR NVIDIA 7800GT

PSU- ROSEWILL RP550S - 2MK 550W

MEM- 1Gx2 OCZ OCZ4002048ELGEGXT

HD- 250G ST 7K 16M SATA ST3250623NS

Please someone help me your my only hope.... <bad pun>

PS. Tried putting a fan there and they still cut off. i checked the temp, it is well below the high for cutoff and i went as far as to turn the restart cause of temp option off. so now what

Goodluck with your el-cheapo PSU.

Have you updated your motherboard's chipset drivers?

www.nvidia.com

Have you updated your video card drivers?

(same site)

What is the make and model of your mobo?

Rosewill isn't the pinnacle of quality. If drivers have been updated, I'd start at the psu.

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Rosewill isn't a manufacturer, they're a repackager much like Mad Dog & a host of others. That PSU may or may not be a good one...it depends on who "really" makes it. The specs look pretty decent, but I get suspicious when I see high amperage on the +5v rail. I've read that some manufacturers purposely do that to drive up the wattage rating. 50A on the +5v = 250W. Half that much would be more realistic...so they're padding the wattage rating by at least 100W.

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its the sound card. check that s---.

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yeah the drivers are updated. i just double checked them today. It cant be the sound card since i have onbord sound with my mother bored and dont have a sound card. If you guys think its the PSU please recomend me one so i can buy it and get it on its way. i dont know if newegg will take this one back or not but hey its worth a shot. I will keep posting if the new PSU doesnt work but i would like to get a good one that isnt to damn pricey. i wouldnt want to spend more then maybe 200 on one.

thanks for your help so far guys.

We're not saying the PSU is the problem, we're saying it's one possibility. Ultimately, you have to troubleshoot to try to pinpoint what IS the problem

Ok so how do i trouble shoot what is next to trouble shoot. you guys named the drivers updates with the motherbored and the video card. still have the same problem so what is the next step.

Hook a multimeter up to the PSU, and check the voltages as you play games, etc.

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had a similar problem too some time back
Games like Fifa 2006, Age of Mythology all hanged in a matter of minutes.

After a lot of searching here and there I finally found that the issue was the power supply.

Check the voltages that you get on the 3.3V , 12V and 5V rail. You can use any benchmarking software like Si Siandra.

In my case, the 3.3V rail was giving around 3.04V and the 12 V was giving 11.11V

Changed my PSU and have had no crashes since.

Give it a try and do let me know if it worked

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Rahul

Hey all. i know i havent posted in a long while but it turns out the psu isnt puting out enough power. so now i have to get a new one. I need a 20+4 pin that is compatiable with the stuff listed above. please can anyone recomend one to fix the problem. i dont want to buy another POS PSU.