I finally completed my new DIY computer, and am very proud to say I
did it without setting the place afire. If I had known how amazingly
easy it is to assemble a computer from components, I would have done
it long ago. It never dawned on me that the motherboard would come
with a complete instruction manual on how to hook everything up.

Pentium IV 2.6ghz CPU
512mb RAM (so far)
128mb GeForce FX 5200 video card
DVD/CD-RW drive
DVD/CD-ROM drive
120gb hard drive (so far)
floppy (for old times sake)
15" flat screen monitor
Windoze XP

Room for a couple more externally accessible drives and about 4 more
internal drives.

It runs great and has absolutely beautiful graphics. But...

When running games, everything goes along fine for a while and then
there is a sort of soft "pfft" sound from inside the case and the
entire system hangs up. I have installed the latest drivers from the
video card manufacturer's website, and have fiddled with everything I
can imagine. I'm not overclocking the CPU and the CPU temp runs at
about 37-38 degrees, as does the motherboard. Anybody have any
suggestions on what might be causing this and what I could do to
remedy the problem? One of the games doesn't even require graphic
acceleration at all, and in facts runs like a charm on my old computer
(with much lower specs, Pentium III 733mhz, 448mb ram, no video card).
It's driving me nucking futs.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/