Comp Crashing....

[LivingDead]

My comp keeps crashing about 30 mins to an hour after booting it up. does it all day long as wel which takes the piss. at first i thort it was over heating n stuff but i used speed fan n every thing is cool. so i hav no idea. it does it on WOW all the time now n i cant play n **** =/. any help?

 

[LivingDead]

bump... still no one got any ideas... =/ done it like another 10 times today

 

[Stonehelm]

Have you got a security package running in the background i.e. Norton or McAffee etc?

Do a virus scan.

Do you get any error messages before it shuts down?

 

[LivingDead]

Have you got a security package running in the background i.e. Norton or McAffee etc?

Do a virus scan.

Do you get any error messages before it shuts down?

ye im using McAffee anti virus but thats it. done a scan and no virus's. no spyware.

no error messages the hole comp just freezes and i have to restart it.

 

[urbanfox]

Are you postive it's not a heat issue? Freezing sounds like a heat issue. Check the heatsinks manually with your fingers and see if they are really hot or anything. Post a cpu-z abnd speedfan pic too. What's your gfx card's temp? this should be in advanced display properties.

 

[LivingDead]

erm and ill get the other one in a sec
http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/6387/untitled3ad.jpg


I cant find the temp of the gfx card...

 

[urbanfox]

Did the crashing just start randomly happening?

What kind of video card do you have, and how does the heatsinks feel.

Voltage is a tad bit high, should be set to 1.75 in the bios, although it shouldn't help noticeably in temp readings.

 

[LivingDead]

Did the crashing just start randomly happening?

What kind of video card do you have, and how does the heatsinks feel.

Voltage is a tad bit high, should be set to 1.75 in the bios, although it shouldn't help noticeably in temp readings.

no its all the time when im playing WOW about every 10 mins.

RADEON 9600XT 256 mb

 

[urbanfox]

Have you felt the heatsinks?

advanced display properties (where you change the res) should have temps.

 

[LivingDead]

Have you felt the heatsinks?

advanced display properties (where you change the res) should have temps.

errr heatsinks, im awfuly dumb .

no temps in the properties mate if im lookin in the rite bit. ill get screenes in a sec

 

[Elijah]

i had that problem with a laptop, just kept over heating. but if ur sure urs isnt then im useless

my fans was just clogged with dust. stupid laptops.

 

[Far]

yeah my pc also restarts when i play games. when i take the tower out my cabinet it doesnt restart.

seems like in most cases it is a heat problem, even if your system says other wise.

 

[Elijah]

yea, when i had the problem, man at store said ma graphics card couldnt handle the games, it even crashed when i was browsing forums sometimes, he was like your graphics cards bad :l

later that day i figured it was heat, as it burnt ma hand when i had ma hand of the space area near the laptop mouse thing.

 

[LivingDead]

hmm it tended to freeze mostly wen i was using WOW. so i reinstalled that and .net framework cus i use programs with it. it seems to have stopped freezing but im not sure if its fixed or not

 

[urbanfox]

VPU RECOVERY

And feel the metal stuff on the video card and the cpu.