playedspades
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ok, so i've got a really wierd problem. if anyone has any suggestions, lemme hear them, cause i'm stumped.
problem summary: whenever i initiate a program which consumes a significant portion of my system resources, my computer will just suddenly power down after a few minutes of running the program. best examples of this is games, especially MMO's. i can't play eve online for more than 5 minutes before the machine powers down. other games include civ 4, guild wars, indigo prophecy. mostly it's with games released after '03, but it did do this once when i had max payne (released '01) running. also, it occasionally happens outside of games, ie heavy downloads, etc. the specific sequience goes like this: i initiate the program, it runs fine for anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, then one or both of my hard drives start spinning up and the HDD LED stays lit for about 4 seconds, then the machine powers down hard, as if someone had pulled the power cord.
machine specs: AMD Phenom (2.2GHz quadcore), ASUS M3A motherboard, ATI HD2600XT graphics card (512MB memory), 2x 2.049GB RAM, 70GB 10k RPM primary master HDD, 1TB primary slave HDD, an unknown Creative Sound Blaster audio card salvaged from my previous computer, Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9.0c.
Troubleshooting history:
1. virus scan
2. disk check and defrag, both drives
3. Reformat OS
4. update CPU drivers
5. update video drivers
6. update audio drivers
7. update xp
8. update direct x
8. reformat NTFS configuration on both drives, repeating driver and os updates afterwords
9. monitored system temerature during opperation (mean 86 degrees F)
a friend suggested that it may be an I/O address conflict, but i don't know anything about that. my experties is mainly in hardware.
problem summary: whenever i initiate a program which consumes a significant portion of my system resources, my computer will just suddenly power down after a few minutes of running the program. best examples of this is games, especially MMO's. i can't play eve online for more than 5 minutes before the machine powers down. other games include civ 4, guild wars, indigo prophecy. mostly it's with games released after '03, but it did do this once when i had max payne (released '01) running. also, it occasionally happens outside of games, ie heavy downloads, etc. the specific sequience goes like this: i initiate the program, it runs fine for anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, then one or both of my hard drives start spinning up and the HDD LED stays lit for about 4 seconds, then the machine powers down hard, as if someone had pulled the power cord.
machine specs: AMD Phenom (2.2GHz quadcore), ASUS M3A motherboard, ATI HD2600XT graphics card (512MB memory), 2x 2.049GB RAM, 70GB 10k RPM primary master HDD, 1TB primary slave HDD, an unknown Creative Sound Blaster audio card salvaged from my previous computer, Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9.0c.
Troubleshooting history:
1. virus scan
2. disk check and defrag, both drives
3. Reformat OS
4. update CPU drivers
5. update video drivers
6. update audio drivers
7. update xp
8. update direct x
8. reformat NTFS configuration on both drives, repeating driver and os updates afterwords
9. monitored system temerature during opperation (mean 86 degrees F)
a friend suggested that it may be an I/O address conflict, but i don't know anything about that. my experties is mainly in hardware.