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| Thread ID: 83274 | 2007-09-26 03:03:00 | My comp dies during games | Damz (10942) | Press F1 |
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| 595135 | 2007-09-26 03:03:00 | Hey guys, Just dusted off my old PC a few days ago, hasnt been used in probably, 2 years? Its half decent, Athlon 1800+, 512MB, 40GBHDD, 32MB Nvidia card . . . Anyways, I was online playing UT G . O . T . Y Edition for maybe, half an hour? And the whole system just died . I pushed the power button to try and turn it back on, but nothing . . About an hour later, I hit the power, and it started up, and ran fine!? But again, during UT it crashed and wouldnt turn back on . . I havent really done it enough times to know for sure that its the heavy-ish usage thats doing it, its just a guess . Maybe somethings overheating? Any ideas? Thanks |
Damz (10942) | ||
| 595136 | 2007-09-26 03:11:00 | Open the case and give it a clean / get rid of the dust. If there's any. If you havent done inside the case. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 595137 | 2007-09-26 03:14:00 | It is most likely overheating because this happen to me with my old PC and i cleaned almost every part inside and it made no difference.. | w000t (11562) | ||
| 595138 | 2007-09-26 03:15:00 | Nah there isnt any dust, I opened it up to have a look at the internals, seeing as im building my first PC tomorrow (yei!).. Thanks anyway | Damz (10942) | ||
| 595139 | 2007-09-26 03:40:00 | Are all the fans spinning? | george12 (7) | ||
| 595140 | 2007-09-26 03:44:00 | Yep, when I had it open they were. I just went to check again, and now it doesnt want to turn on at all..?? Maybe a dodgy PSU? | Damz (10942) | ||
| 595141 | 2007-09-26 03:49:00 | Check all physical connections first - it's the first rule of troubleshooting. Pull out and re-insert all of your cards. If you can, replace cables with known good cables. Remove and re-insert your RAM. Check the secureness of your heatsink/fan - they're quite weighty and can do bad things when cases are moved around. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 595142 | 2007-09-26 03:51:00 | Ok then Ill get onto that tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for the quick replies! |
Damz (10942) | ||
| 595143 | 2007-09-26 03:57:00 | Oh, and you could just have a bad connection in the on/off switch on the case. If you are confident enough, pull out the case connection to the on/off pins on the motherboard and short the pins with a key. | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 595144 | 2007-09-26 04:06:00 | It actually sounds like the PSU could be overheating. It's not at all uncommon for power supply fans to die in old computers. Did you check that the fan in the power supply is spinning? | george12 (7) | ||
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