06-19-2006, 03:12 AM
Quote:It is acting the way machines do when the CPU overheats. If you haven't accidently bumped the heat sink off, then you could check to insure that it is still firmly seated, heat sink is not clogged with dust, and the fan is cooling it.
Yes, I agree. I built my computer myself it is a very powerful machine and will freeze due to overheating if I'm not careful. I usually crack open the chasis and let the system cool off while I'm playing a video game - I only fear some charged partical will fly into the machine and hit the ram, but other than this, seems to work just fine. My motherboard has a program that tells me the systems CPU and MB temperature at all times and will shut down the computer for me before overheating (sometimes).
It might be worth mentioning that I once recieved a nasty virus which wrote to the RAM on the BIOS (I didn't even know this was possible until it happened to me) and no matter how many times I reinstalled Windows XP, the damn virus kept comming back! I finally looked at the BIOS and the preboot paths and saw some remote address the computer was hooking out too before Windows boot up. I guess my computer was getting the virus from this remote site! I then took out the battery on my MB, reset the BIOS (by moving that resistor chip), and reinstalled Windows then the BIOS and BIOS updates. Never had any more problems!
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