XP shutting down randomly.

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AMD 64 X2 4600, Foxcon mobo, 2 x 1gb DDR2, Antec 400watt PSU, Nvidia 7600GT 256mb, Silverstone case.

This computer is having problems. After running perfectly for two months when I was playing a game of Tetris it suddenly shut down, I restarted it and when the bar on the splash page was going across it shut down again.
I restarted it and went into the BIOS and the temperature was 68c, so I changed the HSF(Foxcon standard one) for a Coolermaster one which I used on the previous board.
After running Ok for about an hour I tried Tetris again and after about half an hour of playing it shut down again.
I then reset the BIOS to defaults and no difference, the temperature in the BIOS seems to be about 10c above what Everest & PCWizard say.
I then changed the graphics card from a 7600GT PCI-e to a PCI 32mb card (as it was the only spare I had and it seems to have cured the problem, but the graphics are crap.
I checked for a BIOS update, but seem to have the latest, can anyone shed any light on what might be causing this, as I have no hair left to pull out.
 
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Is it blue screening?

trackrat said:
AMD 64 X2 4600, Foxcon mobo, 2 x 1gb DDR2, Antec 400watt PSU, Nvidia 7600GT 256mb, Silverstone case.

This computer is having problems. After running perfectly for two months when I was playing a game of Tetris it suddenly shut down, I restarted it and when the bar on the splash page was going across it shut down again.
I restarted it and went into the BIOS and the temperature was 68c, so I changed the HSF(Foxcon standard one) for a Coolermaster one which I used on the previous board.
After running Ok for about an hour I tried Tetris again and after about half an hour of playing it shut down again.
I then reset the BIOS to defaults and no difference, the temperature in the BIOS seems to be about 10c above what Everest & PCWizard say.
I then changed the graphics card from a 7600GT PCI-e to a PCI 32mb card (as it was the only spare I had and it seems to have cured the problem, but the graphics are crap.
I checked for a BIOS update, but seem to have the latest, can anyone shed any light on what might be causing this, as I have no hair left to pull out.
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Is it blue screening?
Did you check the event viewer in Administrator Tools in the Control Panel?

I had a problem like this last summer. Turned out that my mouse needed replaced. Might be a loose of faulty usb connection.
 
You need to go to system properties / advanced/ start up and recovery/ and untick automatically restart.

Can you get a fan next to the card see if it still happens then ? check for dust build up on the card fan etc check for virus's change graphics drivers if all else fails reformat and reinstall OS if still happens reseat everything especially the cpu and double check bios settings are all right.

Seeing as the lesser card = didn't happen could be power supply or the card itself overheating or it's simply on it's way out or driver corruption.
 
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C64 & fuzecx, thanks for your replies, I foung another 7600Gt card in my spares box, and have put that in.
So far everthing is running Ok.
 
As it was running so smoothly, I thought I would give it a go with Prime95, big mistake, eight minutes into running Prime and it shut down again.
So it looks like buying a new PSU.
As I use a Seasonic on my other computer I will get one of those.
If it still shuts down with the new PSU then the ******** bundle I brought will be going back as it is only two months old.
 
New PSU arrived today, after putting it in, I ran Prime95 to stress test it for three hours, and no problems.
Thanks to all for your advice.
 
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