Windows XP dies

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My problem is as soon as i do something labor intensive or pull a bunch of
data from another drive my computer dies. Let me be more specific, the screen
goes black, the computer stays running but i can't do anything except
manually reboot it to get it back to where it was. I moved and should have
packed all the components individually but didn't. It did this before, and i
ran scan disc and that seemed to clear it up. I really am not sure where the
problem is. i have a secondary drive and primary, its done it when both
drives were being accessed. here are my specs.

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS EN6600GT/TD/128 GeForce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI
Supported Video Card (only one used to run two but one of the bastards died
on me)
PLEXTOR DVD Burner Black SATA Model PX-712SA/SW-BL
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3800AWBOX
Microsoft XP x64 edition
Transcend 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit
System Memory Model TS2GDDR400K
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Anyone have absolutely idea?
 
Video - Could have killed another one.
Power - Make sure you have an adequet power supply to power all of your
gear. It could be that accessing a hard drive or performing intense CPU
usage robs your video card of power it needs (in other words your power
supply may be inadequet), hanging it.
Heat - Always a culprit, though an easy way to test for heat is to open the
case, get a desk fan and aim it at the motherboard. If the problem goes
away with the fan blowing on it, the problem is most likely heat related.

Thanks,

Matt
 
thanks matt! i appreciate the help!

ME said:
Video - Could have killed another one.
Power - Make sure you have an adequet power supply to power all of your
gear. It could be that accessing a hard drive or performing intense CPU
usage robs your video card of power it needs (in other words your power
supply may be inadequet), hanging it.
Heat - Always a culprit, though an easy way to test for heat is to open the
case, get a desk fan and aim it at the motherboard. If the problem goes
away with the fan blowing on it, the problem is most likely heat related.

Thanks,

Matt
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archimedes said:
thanks matt! i appreciate the help!
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Agreed, I have a similar problem with overheating. The solution is to
give the case a jolly good clean, also check the cooling fins on the
processor cover, these can get very clogged up with dust. If necessary,
give them a good scrape with a cocktail stick or similar implement.
 
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