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system crashes AFTER playing a game. Help diagnosing.
I have a friend who recently built a new PC, and he's experiencing
this odd issue where the system will lock up and reboot itself any time he exits from playing any decently hardware intensive game, like "Battlefield 2" or later. He has an AMD Athalon 64 X2, POWERCOLOR 26XT512M/D3HDMI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16, GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard 2GB or DDR2 RAM. Every calculator I've used says he needs 350-420 watt PSU, he has a 520 watt. I've watched his temps via the mobo software, Speedfan, and other programs and they never climb very high. Even in the middle of a game, after an hour, his CPU never gets above 50, his Northbridge sometimes gets to 60 or 65 but usually 55-60, and his video card never gets above 55 or 58C. So I don't think it's an over heating thing. I've run memtest, drive tests (PartitionMagic, badblocks, checkdsk, etc), video card hardware checkers, SiS Sandra, and everything seems to say the hardware is fine. We tried completely formatting and reinstalling Win XP Pro. tried the default drivers, tried Windows update drivers, and tried Catalyst drivers, and there's no change. He never crashes IN the games and programs, just immediately upon exiting them. No bluescreen, just reboots and auto-chkdsk's upon bootup. Any ideas what I should do or look into at this point? Thanks for any advice! -Liam |
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