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    New Computer Random Crashes-I'm Stumped!

    I never thought of that, but you are right, it is crashing much more often at idle rather than load. I will give this a try.
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    New Computer Random Crashes-I'm Stumped!

    That is what I thought, too. I ran with the Ethernet controller disabled in the BIOS and it still crashed.
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    New Computer Random Crashes-I'm Stumped!

    It ran Prime95 overnight with no problems. When I tried to get online to post this post, though it crashed. I am basically starting to think it works fine unless I am around to watch it, haha. I have removed my motherboard from my case and put it on an insulating surface (my plastic cutting...
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    New Computer Random Crashes-I'm Stumped!

    Seems like it is worth a try. Prime95 has been running for a while now with no problems. Was it shock related? That quote almost makes me want to bump my desk in a bunch of different ways to see what happens, haha.
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    New Computer Random Crashes-I'm Stumped!

    I should have mentioned in my original post, but my GF is a few states away. We actually built the rigs so we could have some bonding over SC2, haha. I am currently running Prime95 to see what that turns up. If that fails I will try to put in my 500W power supply from my old computer...
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    New Computer Random Crashes-I'm Stumped!

    Hello everyone, I recently built a new computer and it is having random crashes. And when I say random I mean random - I got through two levels of L4D2 yesterday, but sometimes I can't even open Firefox without it crashing. I have tried diagnosing everything I can think of and was hoping...