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System crashed while playing game, Reboot starts up heatsink fans only... does not load bios
Hi,
This problem happens alot of time. Everytime when i run network games at home like war craft3, my system would crash after a certain period of time. My screen would just go blackout.. the system power is still running but there is nothing on the screen. Upon reboot, only the heatsink fan is running.. the bios does not load, there is no beep sound, hdd does not run... Does anyone encounter the same problem as me?? Please help me out... Thanks
This problem happens alot of time. Everytime when i run network games at home like war craft3, my system would crash after a certain period of time. My screen would just go blackout.. the system power is still running but there is nothing on the screen. Upon reboot, only the heatsink fan is running.. the bios does not load, there is no beep sound, hdd does not run... Does anyone encounter the same problem as me?? Please help me out... Thanks
Reseat the video card and maybe consider another fan in the system(slot cooler just below the video card) also if you are using a Network card make sure that it is not in the slot below the video card. The issue that you are descibing sounds like a heat issue. I takem it by that fact that you are able to recover that the system does come back up after some time?
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I am able to recover the system after a long time...
Iwould say heat buildup could be causing this.
To check, take the side off your pc and get a fan blowing into it to see if it stays up longer before crashing.
If this improves the situation, look to add system fans to improve overall cooling (especially for video/cpu area) and/or get a better CPU heatsink/fan combo.
To check, take the side off your pc and get a fan blowing into it to see if it stays up longer before crashing.
If this improves the situation, look to add system fans to improve overall cooling (especially for video/cpu area) and/or get a better CPU heatsink/fan combo.
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Thanks dudes.. i'll try that out
If its not heat I would next look into your video card and network card. Do you have the latest video card drivers and network card drivers? if not get a copy of them from the manufacturers website.
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This problem occurs sometimes only.. By the way, anybody using Diamond monster MX400 sound card?? I have some problems with it while playing high end games. It produces a distorted crackling sound.. Listening to MP3 does not have such problems.. Anybody knows why?
I have heat problems with my athlon. i just leave the case off. and i have a GeForce 2 MX400 video card and it runs perfectly, but the highest end game i have ever played on it is GTA III.
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How to do a hard reboot Zax??