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comp turn's off when playing games
Name: dvdtidwell Date: September 8, 2008 at 04:53:47 Pacific OS: xp media CPU/Ram: 3Ghz 1gb ram Product: Fry's FM8130
Comment:
please help when I play JewelQuest 3 after about 3-5 min.s my computer turns its self off. only when playing games PLEASE HELP ME
Name: droolguy Date: September 8, 2008 at 05:03:57 Pacific
Reply:
Is your PC getting hot?
A lot of computers will shut themselves off if internal temperature rises too high.
52" Sony Bravia LCD, EVGA 790i board, 3.0 Quad-Core, 4GB DDR3, SLI GX2s, SB X-Fi, a 2000+ watt 7.1 sound system... Best gaming computer ever, when its not crashing. Vista killed my inner child.
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Response Number 2
Name: dvdtidwell Date: September 8, 2008 at 05:10:33 Pacific
Reply:
no it dont seem to be gettin hot
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: September 8, 2008 at 05:24:17 Pacific
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How do you know "it dont seem to be gettin hot"? Did you enter the BIOS & check the temp readings immediately after a crash? If you did, why didn't you post the temp?
And unless you installed a PCI-e x16 video card, I would suspect that gaming performance is horrible.
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Response Number 4
Name: dvdtidwell Date: September 8, 2008 at 15:12:25 Pacific
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I have a pci-e geforce 7300 gt its kind of hard to ck temp when the computer turns off at that time isnt it?
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Response Number 5
Name: jam Date: September 8, 2008 at 16:45:10 Pacific
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The 7300GT is a very weak gaming card. Definitely better than the onboard video, but still not very good.
"its kind of hard to ck temp when the computer turns off"
Then you turn it back on & immediately check the temp reading in the BIOS. If it is overheating, the temp isn't gonna drop from 90C to 30C in 10-20 seconds.
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction
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Response Number 6
Name: dvdtidwell Date: September 9, 2008 at 00:21:44 Pacific
Reply:
I thank you guys very much.Yes it was over heating I had to clean the dust out of the pross. cooling fins it was bad. AND AGAIN THANK YOU GUYS VERY MUCH: DVDTIDWELL
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