Deliberately or not - you got me all wrong. No need to take futher actions - I ban myself now. Cheers.

Sure, it doesn't make sense. I already stated my intentions and that I didn't think adequately about it. One thing supported my misconception to a big degree: In this (Daniweb) context, "sponsoring"...

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.

Sorry. Let's say I don't speak your language so well, wanted to cheer you up a bit and didn't think too much about it. I know what it's like to be in that situation.

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...

You're sponsoring already a lot of time and time=money, JBennet :) I guess it will help Daniweb too if you help people, which could afford sponsoring in turn. What would your custom title be BTW?...

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...

Sorry, I'm not Linux-savvy, but I guess it has to do with the partitions Linux created. Windows can't format a Linux partition - you'll have to re-partition the disk first. At least one partition...

I would try nForce4. 'PC3200' refers to a Front Side Bus speed of 200MHz and is not related to 'DDR2', which can be translated to "dual-dual data rate", that means the "virtual" data rate is 4x the...

How much RAM do you have installed?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184447

I agree with the previous recommendations and:
I *ever* had trouble with no-name RAM, except the last time I bought some (I'm not learning from mistakes :cheesy:). But if you upgrade RAM, you...

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...

If you don't have to meet industry standards, this seems to be a reasonable decision plus this card will allow you to run some good games, too. I use a 7600GS and I'm fairly satisfied with it. The...

That could be the problem - default values may be too low. I don't know the inner mechanism why the defaults works for one and not for the other, but they seem to do so.

Since I have to look into...

This is a known problem with the icon cache. Extensive description and several solutions can be found here:...

"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...

Even though there is some confusion about emulated pixel shaders in openGL games - pixel and vertex shaders are hardware functions. They have to be supported by the GPU and most games don't support...

You have a typical "Virusburst" infection. Self-help guide here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic63896.html