PC keeps shutting down

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Hi Guys,
For the last few weeks my pc keeps shutting down or totally freezing but mainly shutting down. My temps are fine. CPU (athlon64 3200+) ranges from 37-43C even after playing 3 hours of BF2. My system temp hardly goes over 22C

My Gfx card is a Chaintech Apogee 6800 with unlocked pipelines. I also have an old Gf3 Ti200 which is in the comp at present. The fault still happens with this card albeit not as often so that rules out my 6800 :confused: Could be PSU :confused:

As for power supply I have a generic 550W which provides 11.712-11.840v on the +12v, 4.99 on the +5v, 3.392 on the +3v and 1.438 for the VCore. This psu is only a year old. I don't know if those results are any good!

I've taken a 512M stick of ram out leaving just 512M in. Since doing this I haven't crashed/froze/turned off for 3 hours so far. Both sticks of ram are crucial pc3200 and less than 5 months old. Tomorrow I'm getting 1G (2x512) Giel pc3200 ram. Would removing 1 stick of ram use less power?

I'm at my witts end :mad: I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.

Thanks in advance ;)

System spec:-
Athlon64 3200+
Chaintech Apogee 6800 (unlocked pipelines)
Asus A8V Deluxe
2 x 80G Western Digital HD's
1G crucial pc3200, 1G Giel pc3200
SB Live 5.1 + LiveDrive2
Pioneer DVD+-R/RW
Samsung 40X CDRW
Winfast PVR tv card
550W PSU
2 x 80mm led fans.

BTW Tomorrow my bro is going to lend me a spare PSU to help rule it out hopefully It's only a 300W psu but never used. I think it will be ok for a couple of days for testing purposes won't it?
 
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perhaps the ram is faulty or has developed errors?
try running Memtest on it and see how that goes.

is this a new build? or an old build thats just started developing problems?
 
I forgot to mention I'm running win xp. Also I've put my 6800 back in and it hasn't switched off yet. Although I still have only 1 stick of 512M ram in.

So it could be :-
a) the other stick of 512M
b) the PSU
c) the mobo ?

Thanks Guys ;)
 
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