You were faster, Charky :mrgreen: And I'm afraid that's the idle temp. he measured, that means that thing really shut off all the time... ~4000 rpm, that could really be the stock / boxed cooler.

Yes.

That's way too hot and just before shutting down or dying, depending on your mobo's features. A typical healthy temperature under full load for that CPU is between 45°C and 60°C, depending on...

Naaah, Charky... the 3200+ runs @ 2200MHz, too.

Which fan? Problems like yours are often caused by overheating issues. Check the CPU and environment temperature in the BIOS. Droning fans on CPU heatsinks are a bad thing because a overheating CPU...

Is your BIOS up-to-date?
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=613&kind=1
This BIOS version (B5) seems to introduce support for later Barton CPUs, so if yours...

Here are some more findings on Google. I'm quite impressed how many different issues can apparently lead to this kind of trouble, and I guess I'm not through all of them:

- Disable Wake-On-LAN in...

You're welcome and good luck! (I'll try to find out more meanwhile)

I'm currently searching Google for that and unfortunately it looks like a zillion reasons for that are possible. PSU would have been my next guess...done. Looks like quite some people got that in...

Bad thing. That means hardware trouble. Did you rip the machine apart already, piece by piece? Running video, 1 memory module + your RAID (tried with 1 PATA /RAID off already?) only?

Might be your system crashes during shutdown, triggering the automatic restart.
Go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery and uncheck the 'automatically restart' checkbox....

1. If your computer was good yesterday, why should it be bad today? :cheesy:

2. Installing a complete new heatsink/fan system can be tricky, so I recommend

3. Buy a new 70mm fan, like these...

Thanks for your report. This confirms the suspicion that the threadstarter's PSU is the problem.

Your sound problem can maybe solved by changing slots. I don't know your mobo, but the scheme is...

You can never say this with certainty from a distance, especially with no information about the computer at all, but let me cite Dr. "Bones" McCoy: "It's dead, Jim". (Either the card or some stuff...

Hey Chaky! Congrats! Being a shark now. Or Charky :cheesy:

You're welcome. Good luck!

Ok. Safe Mode won't let you run applications well...
The only thing you could try now is to re-install the graphics driver. Download a recent (91.47 or the new 93.71) nVidia graphics driver for XP....

Yes, but in the way you get response from a distant wall :mrgreen:

Ok. You've got integrated video (hence the 'memory sharing').
How does the distorted screen look? Is it like several flickering screens painted offset over each other or maybe narrow horizontal...

Provided you checked the monitor's function with another computer:

Sounds pretty much like a faulty graphics card or it's not sitting tight in the slot. But we know nothing about your computer and...

That will most likely be happening. Sorry, can't resist to c+p that story here:

The problem I describe below appears on NV-based cards of numerous manufacturers and was already adressed by nVidia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSAA (Bottom of the page) But I guess it's not all hardcoded and the driver contains the algorhythm for that part of hardware to be computed..(?)

Seems that mileage...

I thought you made a typo because you mentioned AA and FSAA in that context.
FSAA is no function of the game engine - the ingame setting just tells the driver it's own idea of which type of AA is...

Hmm... drastically is true, FPS can drop by 50%, but as long I get 25+ frames it won't harm. I played FC to check stability + OC capabilities of my new card, hence the 430/900 (stock is 400/800 on...

You don't believe in the Aluminium Association? :cheesy:

Ok...I ran FC in 1024x768, 4xAA, 16xAF, TAA on, all optimizations off, on a Barton 2800+ (2083MHz) and a 7600GS (430/900). Framerate never dropped below 25, even not in the heavy load levels at the...

What Chaky ;) said plus:

Check the GPU temperature. If you use the new nVidia Control Panel, you can leave the temp. monitoring page open to see the graph, then start gaming but try to Alt-Tab to...

"Dying PSU fries mobo" - this happens all the time and you're right I'm afraid. If there is no POST (no beeps? The tiny case speaker connected?) and you even tried without graphics card, I assume...

That's what the introductory article on top of that page says. For that purpose, +/- 20W doesn't matter. The other purpose of the page is to calculate the annual costs for the juice. I'm not sure if...

Nope. The only one is they assume 140W for the "High end-512MB" - the 7800GT 512 MB takes only 55W according to this (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gpu-consumption2006_5.html)...

Depends on your BIOS manufacturer. Your beep sequence could be AMI:
3x short = Base 64k memory failure. Check if your mem modules are sitting tight and contacts are clean.
2x short = Parity error /...

I smoke hair spray...:mrgreen:



Unfortunately I haven't seen something like this http://www.meisterkuehler.de/cms/energieverbrauch.html in english yet. (Scroll down the page a bit to see the...

I'm still on P-ATA / IDE, too...:) It serves me 50+ audiotracks which should be roughly enough for simple productions ;) Blowing away the dust is always a good idea. Dust plus humidity (or worse:...

If nobody touched them before the problem came up, the cables get a bit out of the focus - they normally don't fall apart without help. Another idea would be to test the drives _plus_ the cables...

Both is possible. It sounds much like a dead video card. Would be good if you can try a borrowed one.

I'll cross my fingers for you, too :mrgreen: (You got my full compassion, I'm in the same kind of business...)

That's a pity because every little detail on what he did could help. He could have tried to tune some settings wrong in the BIOS ("I'm gonna make your computer faster") or did he even open the case...

Your "butcher" might have fried the mainboard (static), but this sounds unlikely when your RAID and non-RAID controllers are actually different chips and not combined in the same one (don't know). A...

Don't use a vacuum to clean out(try compressed air or a shaving brush), disconnect the cable from the PSU and get yourself connected to ground (touch the case) before touching anything.

Almost everything or a combination of several things can be the cause of such issues, including dust (=overheat, dust can render coolers and fans useless) or dead animals. :mrgreen:

Yes, sure. I missed that. Sorry. If you played the same things on that exact hardware without trouble before, this rules out the mentioned chipset issue. Then video card and RAM get into the focus....