2100+ Locking up or restarting

[atomstryker]

Ive got an Athlon XP 2100+ based system running XP Pro. Often, when I play a game like Battlefield 1942 or even Unreal Tournament, the computer will lock up and not respond or simply restart. Sometimes it is worse than others, where I have to flip the switch on the power supply off and on to turn back on the computer. The case temp is around 35 degree celcius, however when I just checked after two concecutive crashes the CPU is at 63 degrees. I know this is very high, all I have in terms of cooling is the retail heatsink fan from amd. The processor is not overclocked.

First, am I correct in assuming that this is a processor issue? Second, is this related to heat? Third, what do you advise I do?

As many opinions as possible would be appreciated

TIA

 

[bedrocked]

whether or not it's directly related to heat (which im sure it is), at those temps you really need to get yourself another cooling option anyway. try that and see what happens.

 

[wampa]

Yea, 63 degrees is really high. I would get a new HS/F like the one at SVC for about $5 plus shipping. Or at least get better cooling for the case or removing the side panel while you play

 

[Mangler]

You should be happy your computer posted anything with an overclocked AMD XP processor on the oem heatsink

 

[atomstryker]

Processor is not overclocked I said. Will just about any cheap HSF be a good replacement?

Thanks for the responses so far

 

[MrEgo]

I wouldn't definitely say that it is a heat issue. If your processor is a Palomino, that temperature is nothing out of the ordinary. My Athlon XP 1900+ Palomino ran at 60C every time I started up. My dual Athlon MP 1900's ran at 62C rock solid stable. I used the retail heat sink fans.

Have you done a disk defrag in awhile? My cousin had this exact problem with his 2100+ on xp pro. I just reformatted his hard drive and the problem seemed to go away. Couldn't tell you exactly what the problem was though.