Specs:
Athlon 2600xp-mobile
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Corsair 2-512mb pc3200 Value Ram
GeForce6800 GT
I bought the mobile because it has no lock on the multiplier so I was free to oc it like crazy. At first I had it running at 2.4ghz, then a month or so later my games began to crash. At first I thought it was the actual game for I would only get windows errors and I was only playing EQ2 and it happened after this 1 big patch so I thought the developers probably messed something up. But once I started playing another game and had that crash too I knew I had a problem.
So first thing I did was lower my overclock to 2ghz and I thought the problem was fixed. However, a month or 2 went by and again my computer began to crash and restart on its own. So.. I lowered it to 1.6ghz with that seeming to fix my problem. Well now after a month it has begun to crash again and at 1.2ghz it is not fixing itself and I'm down and out.
I thought it was my processor, but I switched it out with my brothers mobile that works fine for him and I still have the same problem. I switched out my memory with some pc2700 and it still crashed when I played a game. I'm using my geforce4 ti4200 and the ram currently with it crashing and the processor clocked at 1.2ghz till this is fixed.
So my question is, is it my motherboard? what else could it be? what would make for this decline? From my story here you can see how every 1-2 months I would have to lower it 400 mhz on the oc. Soon I was underclocking it and it was crashing. I don't want to buy a new motherboard and have that not be the problem. Perhaps the powersupply isn't giving it enough power?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated and a big thanks in advance.
Athlon 2600xp-mobile
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Corsair 2-512mb pc3200 Value Ram
GeForce6800 GT
I bought the mobile because it has no lock on the multiplier so I was free to oc it like crazy. At first I had it running at 2.4ghz, then a month or so later my games began to crash. At first I thought it was the actual game for I would only get windows errors and I was only playing EQ2 and it happened after this 1 big patch so I thought the developers probably messed something up. But once I started playing another game and had that crash too I knew I had a problem.
So first thing I did was lower my overclock to 2ghz and I thought the problem was fixed. However, a month or 2 went by and again my computer began to crash and restart on its own. So.. I lowered it to 1.6ghz with that seeming to fix my problem. Well now after a month it has begun to crash again and at 1.2ghz it is not fixing itself and I'm down and out.
I thought it was my processor, but I switched it out with my brothers mobile that works fine for him and I still have the same problem. I switched out my memory with some pc2700 and it still crashed when I played a game. I'm using my geforce4 ti4200 and the ram currently with it crashing and the processor clocked at 1.2ghz till this is fixed.
So my question is, is it my motherboard? what else could it be? what would make for this decline? From my story here you can see how every 1-2 months I would have to lower it 400 mhz on the oc. Soon I was underclocking it and it was crashing. I don't want to buy a new motherboard and have that not be the problem. Perhaps the powersupply isn't giving it enough power?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated and a big thanks in advance.
