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Blue Screen, Crash, Reboot during games

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MurdarMachene

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For technical details, my system specs:

400 watt psu
WD Raptor 70 gig 10k rpm SATA
WD Raptor 34 gig 10k rpm SATA (neither HD is on RAID)
Athlon XP 3400+ clawhammer
Asus K8n-e deulxe mobo
1 gig of ocz industries platinum rev. 2 pc3200 ddr ram
Powercolor radeon x800 pro 256 mb gfx card
ASUS 16x dvd rom

windows XP pro, or perhaps corporate edition, not sure.

I don't have anything overclocked. To my knowledge, at least. I just went through my entire motherboard manual and made sure everything was clocked to standard settings.

I was playing Dawn of War yesterday when all of a sudden my computer just went to a completely blank blue screen for about a second (not the regular Blue Screen of Death, I don't think?), then it rebooted. Again today the same thing happened, but while playing Doom3. I don't know what the problem is, I'm worried that perhaps my PSU isn't giving enough power for all the stuff I have...any suggestions?

CPU temp seems okay, it's at around 30-40 C during heavy use, 20-30 when I'm not doing much.

How should I solve this blue screen problem?

 
Check the event viewer viewing the properties of the error when you right click on it. Might give an idea of what's causing the crash. 400W should be enough if it isn't some generic one.
Go to system properties advanced performance settings. Then advanced again and make sure memory usage is set to programs.
Run memtest86 see if your memory timings are ok.
 
doom3 killed my generic 400watt psu with a 9800 pro so I would look there first. I have antec true blue 480watt now.
 
Originally posted by: Viper96720
Check the event viewer viewing the properties of the error when you right click on it. Might give an idea of what's causing the crash. 400W should be enough if it isn't some generic one.
Go to system properties advanced performance settings. Then advanced again and make sure memory usage is set to programs.
Run memtest86 see if your memory timings are ok.
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I would follow this suggestion to the T.
 
Hey dudes what'ZUP, do you think my ram has the incorrect timings? I set the cas latency to 2 manually in the bios and it still does the Stupidos crash.
 
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