superman22x
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It's been awhile since I've done much trouble shooting hardware wise. Anyway, looking for some help from my fellow CF members.
Recently, my desktop has been shutting off randomly. When I'm on Netflix or something similar everytime I think. And I wasn't on for long, today it shut off after 10 minutes. Sometimes the screen goes black and sound stops. Sometimes the sound keeps going but the monitors just turn off. Which leads me to believe it's something with the graphics card. But I wasn't sure if anyone else thought it was something else going bad from old age? The processor is very lightly overclocked at 2.06ghz from 1.86. I used to run it at 2.4ghz with no issues.
This machine is old now.
1.86 ghz Core 2 Duo E6300
4GB DDR2 800
8800GTS 512mb
650watt Powersupply.
I know it's ancient now, but I had no issues running Solid modeling, Matlab, and video programs, which are the most I ever use it for anymore.
So what's usually the first part to go? And what do you guys think might be my issue here?
Recently, my desktop has been shutting off randomly. When I'm on Netflix or something similar everytime I think. And I wasn't on for long, today it shut off after 10 minutes. Sometimes the screen goes black and sound stops. Sometimes the sound keeps going but the monitors just turn off. Which leads me to believe it's something with the graphics card. But I wasn't sure if anyone else thought it was something else going bad from old age? The processor is very lightly overclocked at 2.06ghz from 1.86. I used to run it at 2.4ghz with no issues.
This machine is old now.
1.86 ghz Core 2 Duo E6300
4GB DDR2 800
8800GTS 512mb
650watt Powersupply.
I know it's ancient now, but I had no issues running Solid modeling, Matlab, and video programs, which are the most I ever use it for anymore.
So what's usually the first part to go? And what do you guys think might be my issue here?