ram, cpu, or hard drive?

[Mark]

Alot of the times when I play CS or CS:S, my computer would reboot automatically. The thing is, during the restart process, I could actually hear the the hard drive initiate. Like a spinning, winding noise so I assumed it was probably the hard drive that was messed up. After it would finsish restarting, a box would pop up saying the system has recovered from a serious error. So I send the button to send the report to MS and it tells me it restarted because of a problem with the CPU. So I manually go into the BIOS and change the FSB speed from 166 to 133 and problem solved, no more crashing in CS. Fast forward to a few days ago, I'm downloading some files off newsgroups and my computer freezes. When it froze, I could hear the hard drive restarting again during the crash(winding up noise). I am confused as to what could be the problem here, the CPU, the ram, or the hard drive? Before in the past, it would run at 166 with no problems at all. Then it started crashing randomly so I reset the FSB to 133 every time I planned on playing CS and would reset it back to 166 when I'm done(seemed it only crashed during extensive cpu use) and it would run without any problems. Now I can't even run it at 166 anymore(crashed on startup) and it's unstable at 133. What do you guys think? I just want to make sure I buy the correct thing(which I think is a cpu fan since the one I have on is stock). My specs are:


Antec 400W power supply
ASUS A7N8X deluxe
AMD XP XP 2600 Throughbred @ 133
WD 120GB hard drive
ATI Radeon 9500 OEM
Using onboard sound
1 gig of ram(2 sticks of 256 ocz running in dual channel, and another 512 stick I don't know anything about, excpet it can also run at 166)


I think it's the CPU because it had no problems running at 166 before and now it does. Also I just checked the cpu temps in the BIOS and at 133 it runs between 115-120F and at 166 it's 125-130F, is that too hot? And if the cpu temp is the problem, can you guys recommend me a good cpu fan that I can buy online somewhere?(I don't overclock)?



Thanks

 

[a64fxman]

either Power supply or HD

 

[Mark]

what about the cpu temps? are they fine? also ive alrealdy updated the bios.

 

[tweeve2002]

Check your PS...My brothers computer was having hard drive problems simmilar to yours because the 5v line on his PS was running half a volt low :Q swaped in a new PS that we had laying around, problem fixed.

 

[Mark]

im gonna go out and get another ps supply. should i also get a cpu fan as well?

 

[Mark]

bump

 

[gwai lo]

is auto restart disabled? assuming you're using xp

 

[KBtn]

check your temps!!!!

 

[Mark]

Originally posted by: gwai lo
is auto restart disabled? assuming you're using xp

how do if its enabled? and about the temps, i already posted them and am awaiting a response to see if i need a fan or not.

 

[stevty2889]

To disable automatic resart, right click on MY COMPUTER, click on the advanced tab, go to startup and recovery, click on settings, and un-check the automatic restart box. As for temps, it's easier if you give them to us in Celcius, since thats what is normaly used for CPU temps, and most people are too lazy to convert the temps..also let us know if the temps are under load, or at idle, because that makes a big differance..

120f is about 51c, so if those are your idle temps, thats pretty high..

 

[Mark]

i replaced the power supply and all is well now.

 

[PumpActionWalrus]

Your temps are fine