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seabourne

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I just finished building a new machine with a Asus A8V deluxe Mobo and Athlon 3500. I used my old 9800 agp card and Audigy 2 card. I have 1 gig of 3200 corsair value ram. 1 seagate hard drive. I have installed all the drivers and updated windows and my mobo bios. When I run a graphic intensive game like Far Cry, It runs for about 10 minutes and then my machine crashes and the screen goes black it doesnt even crash to the desktop. It just dies. I hit cntrl-alt-del and it reboots and acts like nothing is wrong. I can play turn based games for hrs and no problem. Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be.
 
hi there & welcome seabourne

there's a good chance your rig could be overheating and shutting down based on the heat / shutdown settings in the BIOS. is your cooling solution acceptable? is your CPU / heatsink fan seated properly? did you install the heatsink / fan yourself and if so, did you use thermal paste or the pad that came with the heatsink?

there could be a bevy of other things transpiring - for example, could be a game issue although if you experience a hard crash, i highly doubt it. the graphics intense apps could be causing your CPU to reach extreme temps and thus the shutdown.

check your temps in BIOS using hardware monitor and report back. also, list your power supply specs and brand.
 
Power supply is aspire 520 w I bought the motherboard with the processor installed. I bought it from monarch computers. How do you change the temp settings and what would be a correct temp setting.
 
In BIOS - go through the menus - [Think it might be in the 'pc health' or something like that] disable auto shutdown. The AMD64 has an inbuilt temp shutoff, allegedly
 
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