512 RAM (Kingston)
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP mobo
Currently a Radeon 7000 (the 9700 needs repaired)
AMD 2000+
Windows XP Home
Think power is 350W Enermax will have to check... not sure how to check bios for temp manually though?
Maybe, certainly seems to be something involving heating. I can make the computer stay on longer by removing the side panel and putting a regular room fan facing the computer. From what I gather the temperature reading is from the hard drive, but not sure how hot anything else is.
Ok, posted here last week about some blocking and banding problems I was having. Sure enough got a cheapie card and that fixed.
Well, shortly after my video card started to fritz, I also started having problems with the computer completely freezing up. Sometimes I can't even reset, have to...
Weirder and weirder.. suddenly started getting random freeze ups, have to turn the computer off on the back switch (regular and restart don't work). Opened up and ran the rebooted, 2 things become obvious a) the longer the computer is shut down the longer it stays up before freeze b) the fan...
No, not overclocked, pci slot is empty, and I mean as soon as the computer is booted, as in BIOS and RAM check, and everything that follows.
Umm haven't tried reseating RAM, worth a shot I guess.
EDIT
Reseated RAM, no change.
About a week ago, I started getting some bad video problems. On boot, there are blocks on the screen as it runs set up, then after it makes it to login screen there is color banding all across the monitor. It was less bad by switching to 16bit color, but still noticable. Video did not work or...
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