Overheating?

Enigma24

Enigma24

Enigma24

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Recently my system has started to freeze or reset its self during games. Initially i thought it was one particular game , black and white 2 but its also doing it with bfme now. Ive ran virus scans and checked memory and thats coming up with nothing. Ive got the latest grpahics card drivers and again its still doing it. So i was working on the theory that it was overheating so i cleaned the cpu heatfink + fans and put two new exhasut fans it yet its still doing it.

Any thoughts or soultions would be appreciated thanks

System spec is :

Asus p4p800 motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Northwood CPU
2 X 512 Crucial DDR 400mhz RAM
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
150 GB harddrive
Coolermaster aero jet 4 + heatsink over the cpu
2 x 80mm silent eagle golfball exhaust fans

temperatures are

idle: cpu-25 degrees mb-36 degrees
Underload cpu-40 degrees mb 48

taken from speedfan
 
ok ive ran that stress test you recommended and it didnt crash ran it for around half an hour to 45 mins so dont think it can be the gpu overheating now.any software i can use to monitor the gpus temperature?

any other suggestions if its not that?
 
yeah some ATi cards including mine come with a sensor. crashes at random points in the game usually after its been running for around 15- half an hour.

Could be the psu yeah only go a 300watt one in it. ill swap it over tommorow with another one i got lying around and see if that makes a difference. No major changes recently no so has got to be a failing piece of hardware as it never used to crash during games. :(
 
Ok small update on my problem ive jsut replaced the psu with a HX520watt corsair one and the crashing/restarting is still happening so that rules out a dodgy psu and overheating issues.

Next port of call hardware wise would be the graphics card yeah?.

I used Avast! anti-virus and it comes up with nothing so would this be a reliable enough program to rule out a virus or software problem?

Help would really be appriciated now as im at my witts end with this.

Thanks
 
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