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My system goes off suddenly???

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by mdl3

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hi guys,me again with a new problem, ok I recently builted a system AMD Athlon 1600+ xp on Azus board, it runs good but when I'm playing games after a while it suddenly turns completly off???
it has 512Mb of DDR RAM,3D Nvidia 32bit-32Mb RAM video card.
I had a similar problem on a win98 system with the diffecence being that it wouldn't turn completly off but it would just kick me out of the game back to windows???
Please can sombody give me a good detailed explanation???
Thanks again guys!

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by thechas

My first thought is that the CPU may be over-heating.

I would also check the power management settings in both the BIOS settings, and control panel.
It is possible that if you are not using the mouse or the keyboard, that Windows has decided that there is no system activity, and decides to place you into standby mode.

This would be especially true, if your shutdown seams to occour after the same amount of game play.

It may also be an ACPI driver issue. Check with the motherboard mfg for updates drivers / BIOS.

by inxale

Run the machine with the case cover off. Even though the fan maybe spinning you may need a bigger fan.

I had the same problem. Basically the machine froze . Had to do a cold boot but because the chip was alredy hot it frozr again during boot up.

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