I NEED HELP WITH SOME COMPUTER STUFF!!!!!!!

[gamble_n_dice]

COMPUTER PARTS
-VA9000SWA Kandalf Super Tower, Silver Aluminu
-Maxtor 250GB DiamondMax 10 7200RPM Serial ATA w/ 16MB Cach
-Kingston 1GB PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRA
-Kingston 1GB PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRA
-Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe w/ DualDDR2, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 2 x PCI-
x16 SLI (MOTHERBOARD
-Enermax 600W EG701AX-VE SFMA All In One Noisetake
-Intel Pentium 4 Processor 630 3.00 GHz w/ 2MB Cache, EM64
-Sapphire Radeon X1600 XT 256MB PCI-E w/ TV-Out, DVI (Lite Retail
-Thermaltake Big Water Internal Liquid Cooling Syste
-LG Super Multi DVD Writer 16x16 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer, Black
-Samsung 793DF (Pure Flat CRT, 17in, Silver/Black
-Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Blac
-APC Home/Office SurgeArrest 8 Outlet with Telphone/Splitte
Protectio
-LG 16X DVD-ROM, Black
-Microsoft Black Digital Media Keyboard & Optical Mouse Value Pac
2.
-Microsoft Windows XP Professional with SP2
-Maxtor 160GB ONETOUCH EXT
-Zalman ZM-G100 Anti-Corrosion Coolan

-4 stockfan
-Thermaltake radiato

System Information
-CPU: 35C-45C (regular processing, and when the room temp get high
-Motherboard: 30C-38C (regular processing, and when the room temp ge
high
-CPU processing: 44 progra
-CPU when gaming: 35C - 47
-Mother when gaming: 30C - 45

Problems
When ever I play games my computer crashes, and when it crashes i can
move the mouse, I cant use CRTL+ALT+DELETE and the graphics tends t
stay still. Then i have to manually reboot it and then i go into th
bios to see if my CPU temperature reached 60C (60C is amount the P
can take after that it slows down and crash or burn) and when
checked temperature it only reached like 45C-47C and the motherboar
45C

Question
- Is my CPU temperature stable
- Is my Motherboard temperature stable
- Why does the game crash on me
- Is it heat problem
- Is it Hardware problem
- Is it a graphic card problem
- Is it a sofware proble
- Is it CPU problem

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[johns]

I see a few pieces of junk that are known about:

LG DVD writer
ASUS mobo ... could be a refurb.
Sapphire video card ... known for bad gaming
?? another LG dvd-rom ?? Why? both are noisy, and
both are waay out of date in their BIOS.
Maxtor ONE TOUCH .. the software is total crap, and
can give big problems in XP sp2. You should just
use the drive as an external USB drive and format
it out of XP. Uninstall that garbage.

I would start with the ASUS mobo, and try to determine
if it is a refurb. Check the BIOS to see if it is the original
BIOS. If it has been updated, you have a refurb. Also
check the 101 jumpers and make sure they are in their
default positions. If not, you have a refurb.
Next, I would try to disable all the TV stuff on the video
card. It causes bypassing of the oncard hardware that
your games need .. at higher settings. This is pretty
well known, and there may be more info at ATI.
Those LG roms would go straight in the garbage. Get
a Sony dvd-rw. It is quiet, and has a very uptodate BIOS.
The Maxtor ONE TOUCH software is a joke. I would not
only uninstall it, I would totally re-format and reinstall
XP. That poop will throw open every single port on your
PC, and the viruses and trojans will march right in and
sack your machine. Also, the format program is specialized
to the ONE TOUCH app, and if you dismount the drive
by simply switching it off, you could lose the partition.
Just treat the drive as a vanilla USB drive, and it will work
fine.

johns

 

[gamble_n_dice]

My motherboard isnt a refurbished one its new, fresh out the box and
had a techicien look at my computer he put the 101 jumper thing in th
mother board he set up the things

When i got the computer i didnt have any freezing problem i playe
games for 3-4 hours straight and it didnt freeze it lagged like
times and the freezing started after like a 2-3moths late

 

[gamble_n_dice]

I wouldnt get anything from sony for atleast 1year, because the forme
CEO of sony got fired because his way of doing things werent too good
everything was expensive and the technology was a little crappy
Now they got a new CEO he use to be a former CEO for GM AUTOMOBILE
his changing everything in the sony corporation, his decreasing th
price of the SONY PLAYSTATION3 from $2000 to something affordable fo
the average american and canadian. and he is personally picking goo
employees and firing all the slacker

 

[Rod Speed]

My motherboard isnt a refurbished one its new, fresh out
the box and i had a techicien look at my computer he put
the 101 jumper thing in the mother board he set up the things.

When i got the computer i didnt have any freezing problem i played
games for 3-4 hours straight and it didnt freeze it lagged like 2
times and the freezing started after like a 2-3moths later

Presumably the room temp has got higher in that time tho.

 

[Rod Speed]

I wouldnt get anything from sony for atleast 1year, because the former
CEO of sony got fired because his way of doing things werent too good,
everything was expensive and the technology was a little crappy.
Now they got a new CEO he use to be a former CEO for GM AUTOMOBILE,
his changing everything in the sony corporation, his decreasing the
price of the SONY PLAYSTATION3 from $2000 to something affordable for
the average american and canadian. and he is personally picking good
employees and firing all the slackers

Have you had a look at the state of GM today ?

 

[SteveH]

I see a few pieces of junk that are known about:

<snipped>>
I would start with the ASUS mobo, and try to determine
if it is a refurb. Check the BIOS to see if it is the original
BIOS. If it has been updated, you have a refurb. Also
check the 101 jumpers and make sure they are in their
default positions. If not, you have a refurb.
Next, I would try to disable all the TV stuff on the video

johns

Are you some sort of disgruntled Asus ex-employee? Or do you just talk crap
for a living?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Asus come along at some point and sue the
ass off you.
95% of the PC's I've built for people (a lot) have been with Asus mobos, the
only one I've had back with a mobo fault was due to a PSU that went bad,
blowing the mobo.

SteveH

 

[Charlie Wilkes]

Are you some sort of disgruntled Asus ex-employee? Or do you just talk crap
for a living?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Asus come along at some point and sue the
ass off you.
95% of the PC's I've built for people (a lot) have been with Asus mobos, the
only one I've had back with a mobo fault was due to a PSU that went bad,
blowing the mobo.

SteveH

He would love it if they sued him. Then he'd REALLY have an audience
for his Asus rants.

I don't get the Asus thing either. I've never had trouble with an
Asus board. But I think johns has pretty solid experience to back up
what he says, and, by God, I can so relate to his attitude. Hardware
is 2 steps forward, 1-9/10s steps back, and by the time it's really
fixed, it's ready for the landfill because something new is on the
market.

I mean, seriously, look at the OP... the guy has paid a lot of money
for stuff the tech sites are pimping as the best deal going, and
what's he got for his trouble??? He can't play a ****in game but what
his system locks.

Charlie

 

[Kent_Diego]

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Question:
- Is my CPU temperature stable?
- Is my Motherboard temperature stable?
- Why does the game crash on me?
- Is it heat problem?
- Is it Hardware problem?
- Is it a graphic card problem?
- Is it a sofware problem
- Is it CPU problem?

The temperatures are fine. Yes it is a hardware problem. Useally RAM but
could be video card or motherboard. Run Memtest86 overnight. Try diffrent
RAM timings in BIOS. Use ATI Tool and lower GPU frequency to see if fixes.