Is this a heating problem?

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Lifer
May 26, 2003
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Well, my PC began resetting by itself, when I either play a game, or do something on Macromedia Flash MX... I am guessing, it's about the heating but I can't give any meaning to it. I have 3 fans in my case, in addition to heatsink, power supply fan, 2 harddisk coolers, and one expansion slot fan cooling the whole motherboard... what's wrong here?

Btw, it gives an error like this during boot up:

"Secondary IDE Channel 88 No conducter cable installed"?

Goofy?
 

s0ssos

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i don't think it's the heating. i don't know about your error, but i do know a lot of restarting problems are cause your power supply can't pump out enough power. so during intensive stuff it'll restart or do something weird
 

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Lifer
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well my power supply is 500 watts ? isn't that enough for a p4 2.44b, with 1 gig ddr ram and ati radeon 9500 pro?
 

QSnexus

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Depends if it is a quality PSU.. That wattage on the box tells nothing. Check what amps are supplied to each voltage in the specs.