let me begin by saying this is a continuation of this, but as i no longer see it as a video issue i have continued it here, onto the topic!
About 2 months ago I was playing Half-Life 2(Awsome!) when all of a sudden my machine emits a single beep and the video stops dead frozen, i restart the machine and the leds light up the fans spin but it doesint post, we re seeded everything with no effect we then replaced everything we could (ram, video card, hdd) with no luck, so my friends got me a new mobo for christmas, we put the new mobo in and reinstalled everything but it did the same thing, so we removed the CPU which we suspected was also toast and replaced it with a 1ghz duron, and to my pleasure it booted up normal.
But now a new problem arises, right away after reinstalling drivers and what not just in case (mostly cuz the mobo change) i tried to jump right into Counter-Strike: Source, but the game restarted as soon as the map finished loading(no problems in the menu) after the machine rebooted i tried hl2 and even the menu (which has a map with misc stuff going on) restarted the computer again,i tested some other 3d games all with the same problems and not just Valve games either, i tested some 2d games and what not and at first it would seem they would play but if i had to many programs running in the background they to would crash along with a bunch of other things running in the background(such as steam) which brings me to the conclusion that it must be the powersupply (350w Sparkle) do you think im correct in my assumption?
About 2 months ago I was playing Half-Life 2(Awsome!) when all of a sudden my machine emits a single beep and the video stops dead frozen, i restart the machine and the leds light up the fans spin but it doesint post, we re seeded everything with no effect we then replaced everything we could (ram, video card, hdd) with no luck, so my friends got me a new mobo for christmas, we put the new mobo in and reinstalled everything but it did the same thing, so we removed the CPU which we suspected was also toast and replaced it with a 1ghz duron, and to my pleasure it booted up normal.
But now a new problem arises, right away after reinstalling drivers and what not just in case (mostly cuz the mobo change) i tried to jump right into Counter-Strike: Source, but the game restarted as soon as the map finished loading(no problems in the menu) after the machine rebooted i tried hl2 and even the menu (which has a map with misc stuff going on) restarted the computer again,i tested some other 3d games all with the same problems and not just Valve games either, i tested some 2d games and what not and at first it would seem they would play but if i had to many programs running in the background they to would crash along with a bunch of other things running in the background(such as steam) which brings me to the conclusion that it must be the powersupply (350w Sparkle) do you think im correct in my assumption?