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Name: farang
Date: July 3, 2003 at 18:27:03 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1.7Ghz
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AMD Athlon 1.7 Ghz
512 DDR RAM
ASUS motherboard
60 GB harddrive

I've had this pc for 9 months and now in the last 2 weeks I've had nothing but trouble. Mostly during gaming (Delta Force BHD) my computer crashed every 5 minutes. It has always worked fine, but this has become a major problem as it is impossible to game. Sometimes it also crashes in the middle of something else like defragmentimg, writing a doc, etc... . But when I'm gaming it happens every 5 minutes. I have updated videodrivers, defragmented, deleted stuff from harddrive, nothing helps.
Can somebody please help me on this. I have heard that people with xp and athlon processors have problems with gaming, but I never had any problems untill now. If not necessary I'd rather not format my harddrive, but if that is the only solution then so be it. What could have triggered this problem?? Thank you



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Response Number 1
Name: farang
Date: July 3, 2003 at 18:30:22 Pacific
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I also would like to mention the problems got worse bit by bit. It started 2 weeks ago every 45 minutes while gaming, right now I can hardly play a few minutes.


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Response Number 2
Name: capt
Date: July 3, 2003 at 18:46:27 Pacific
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I would check the power supply.


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Response Number 3
Name: farang
Date: July 3, 2003 at 18:52:27 Pacific
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I have the pc on a surge protecter. I have lights on and tv in the house and everything works fine. And how come 9 out of 10 times it happens during gaming then?? If it was the power supply then it would happen as much while I do other stuff right??


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Response Number 4
Name: capt
Date: July 3, 2003 at 18:55:24 Pacific
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Then check the video card.


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Response Number 5
Name: farang
Date: July 3, 2003 at 19:08:55 Pacific
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How do I check it?? Take it to the store?? Or is it something I can check myself.

Gee, I feel like a dummy, lol.

Thanks for the help Capt.


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Response Number 6
Name: wawadave
Date: July 3, 2003 at 19:29:51 Pacific
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defrag recently?


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Response Number 7
Name: farang
Date: July 3, 2003 at 19:57:06 Pacific
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Yes, I defragmented 2 days ago cause I thought that might help it. But it didn't.


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Response Number 8
Name: capt
Date: July 3, 2003 at 20:21:30 Pacific
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Try the PC Pitstop performance test to see if it might detect a video card problem. Another perormance test is at is at http://www.browsertune.com/bt2kfast/.


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Response Number 9
Name: campy6
Date: July 3, 2003 at 20:50:09 Pacific
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it could still be the ps because during gaming the comp is drawing more power than while doing say word processing
the cpu is working harder as is the video card causing more heat so maybe the fans start working harder. Could it be a heat issue?
Lights working fine in your house have no bearing on a bad ps, nor does a surge suppressor, if it goes bad it goes bad no matter what


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Response Number 10
Name: farang
Date: July 4, 2003 at 16:32:26 Pacific
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Campy6,
For all I know it could be anything. So yes it could be a heat issue. Do you know how I can test that??


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Response Number 11
Name: campy6
Date: July 6, 2003 at 20:03:18 Pacific
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try loading this program its called speed fan it will tell you the temp of cpu and temp inside of case. It monitors constantly

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php


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Response Number 12
Name: farang
Date: July 11, 2003 at 19:08:37 Pacific
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Thank you all for responding! Thanks for the link campy, I found iout in the meanwhile that temp is ok. I moved my problem to 'general hardware' with teh things I found out so far.


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