I'm wondering if it could be the power supply I have is too small, or if I'm not keeping it cool enough.

I have Vtune, and it shows my temp at around 50c when the video just shuts off, then I've got to restart my computer. This trouble mainly occurs while I'm playing bionic commando rearmed...Naturally while on the final base of course...

I have a fan in the tower box along with my chip fan and the video card's built-in fan, is my tower just too small?

Could it be that my power supply is just not handling my load?

I did buy the card used, from someone I trusted, could it be I was swindled?

Appreciate any help,

Bill

A little more information, please. Make and model of motherboard, processor, PSU?

Dick

My mother board is a ASUSTeK M2N-X
I've got an AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core processor
and I don't know what psu is, but I'll assume it's the power supply unit?

I have an atx switching power supply with a million numbers on it,which numbers would be helpful? Or is there a program for free I can see what my system is sucking up power wise? I'll go check really quick.

Originally posted by bilscrobe:

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I have an atx switching power supply with a million numbers on it,which numbers would be helpful?

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Manufacturer and model number of the Power Supply Unit (PSU) would be helpful as we can then look up its specifications.

I should have asked this before, but what is the make and model of your graphics card?

Dick

The graphics card is a nvidia geforce 9600gt, I would give the manufacturer make and model of the psu, but I can't find it anywhere on the thing. I think I got the problem figured out though. The card comes with a power cord that has 2 plugs on it, well I only had one of them plugged in, and after doing a little forum hopping and googling, it seems that I needed to have the other cord plugged in also. I did this yesterday, and so far I've had no troubles. I think sometime in the future though, I might go ahead and get a new tower box with a bigger fan and psu just to be on the safe side, can't hurt can it?

Thanks for the help Dick

Bill

Originally posted by bilscrobe:

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Thanks for the help Dick

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You did all the work. I just asked silly questions. Congrats on solving your problem.

Dick