*This is a repost, as it is now in the correct forum.
So recently while playing the fabulous Guild Wars, I have started crashing often, from 5 minutes to 60 minutes in the game. I suspect that something is heating up, as I have tried running the game on either of my two hard drives and they both have the same problem (and they are radically different - one is a WDRaptor 74GB and another is a Samsung 40GB). The computer essentially freezes in place, user input is no longer acceptable, and physical reboot must be performed. So I thought something must be overheating, possibly?
I've put some data of temperatures as recorded by SpeedFan. The decline in temperatures in Temp2 starts IMMEDIATELY with the closing of the Guild Wars program, they have to be correlated. Conversely, while playing low-maintenance games like Diablo II or running any other standard application, there is no significant rise in temperature nor is there any ever such crash.
Data:
Playing GW (before crash) -
Temp1 - 82 F / 28 C
Temp2 - 106-110 F/ 41-43 C
Temp3 - 109 F / 43 C
After quitting GW and running menial tasks for 2 mins -
Temp1 - 82 F / 28 C
Temp2 - 92-94 F / 33-34 C
Temp3 - 109 F / 43 C
My stats are as follows:
CPU: 2.4 GHz P4 w/Hyperthreading
GPU: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
RAM: 1022 MB DDR Kingston or Corsair, forget which.
Sound: Audigy 2 ZS, 24-Bit.
So first of all, I have no idea where the Temp2 indicator is located. Secondly, if it is a GPU problem, is there a cheap (~$25), efficient remedy for the solution?
Please let me know!
Thanks!
So recently while playing the fabulous Guild Wars, I have started crashing often, from 5 minutes to 60 minutes in the game. I suspect that something is heating up, as I have tried running the game on either of my two hard drives and they both have the same problem (and they are radically different - one is a WDRaptor 74GB and another is a Samsung 40GB). The computer essentially freezes in place, user input is no longer acceptable, and physical reboot must be performed. So I thought something must be overheating, possibly?
I've put some data of temperatures as recorded by SpeedFan. The decline in temperatures in Temp2 starts IMMEDIATELY with the closing of the Guild Wars program, they have to be correlated. Conversely, while playing low-maintenance games like Diablo II or running any other standard application, there is no significant rise in temperature nor is there any ever such crash.
Data:
Playing GW (before crash) -
Temp1 - 82 F / 28 C
Temp2 - 106-110 F/ 41-43 C
Temp3 - 109 F / 43 C
After quitting GW and running menial tasks for 2 mins -
Temp1 - 82 F / 28 C
Temp2 - 92-94 F / 33-34 C
Temp3 - 109 F / 43 C
My stats are as follows:
CPU: 2.4 GHz P4 w/Hyperthreading
GPU: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
RAM: 1022 MB DDR Kingston or Corsair, forget which.
Sound: Audigy 2 ZS, 24-Bit.
So first of all, I have no idea where the Temp2 indicator is located. Secondly, if it is a GPU problem, is there a cheap (~$25), efficient remedy for the solution?
Please let me know!
Thanks!
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