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computer acting up

computer startes up in the morning then shuts down ,then trys to start again after the third time it comes on ..goes great all day but when i am playing crysis ,for no reason it will will boot itself,,iam running intel i5 2320-at 3.00 ghz.. i have a nzxt phanton case lots of air flow ,,iam running a ocz 700 watt powersupply .2x4890 crossfire ,500western harddrive and 120 vertex ssd drive

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kevinjam
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I suspect that the power supply is faulty, though it could be a problem with the motherboard as well. You need some diagnostic tools to check the system board and power supply. This is a free one that has good reviews (self-booting CD image): http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd, and here is a link to the download image: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.1.zip

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I just downloaded and burnt the CD and booted it to explore it a bit. It is an awesome set of tools. One that is on the mini-xp image is called s&mstress which will stress test the system CPU, power supply, hard drives and controllers, etc. That would probably help determine if your problem is the power supply, or something else.

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If your computer crashes then there is a problem in motherboard just change it and see the differnce

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