Alright, to start things off, the specs of my computer.
Enermax 600 watt p-supply
Amd athlon 64+ 3800 processor
2 gigs of dual channel ram
ATI (Asus) X1600 256mb vid card
(Thought the problem could've been with my video drivers and directx but both are up to date with windows xp)
Not really too sure what kind of MoBo I use, but I could find out.
If anyone needs anything more, let me know.
Alright, to the problem.
My computer likes to throw freezing fits, mid-game, but only during games that are graphically intensive like World of Warcraft, Half-life2, I had it freeze while playing Black and White, and even Warcraft 3.
After each freeze, I restart my computer, and every so often a message comes up with "Your CPU Fan speed is too low, press F1 to continue anyway" or something along those lines, but if I reboot after that screen, it doesn't pop up again.
After I've rebooted, and everything, if I try to play any graphically intensive game again, it will freeze yet again, within a few minutes of playing, it will even freeze during less graphically intensive games, after the first initial freeze.
The interesting part is that when it freezes, anything that I've done such as adding songs to my winamp playlist, or saving over a text file in word, will be reverted to the last known save/playlist.
But not everything gets reverted, for example.. If I were to save a word file, it will get reverted to the last save, but if I save an edited photo, or edited song, they will remain edited.
I think it could be a faulty memory issue but I haven't gotten around to replacing the memory to see if it would prevent it from freezing.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out with this, because I have absolutely no idea what's wrong with my computer.
Thanks,
Forkchops
Enermax 600 watt p-supply
Amd athlon 64+ 3800 processor
2 gigs of dual channel ram
ATI (Asus) X1600 256mb vid card
(Thought the problem could've been with my video drivers and directx but both are up to date with windows xp)
Not really too sure what kind of MoBo I use, but I could find out.
If anyone needs anything more, let me know.
Alright, to the problem.
My computer likes to throw freezing fits, mid-game, but only during games that are graphically intensive like World of Warcraft, Half-life2, I had it freeze while playing Black and White, and even Warcraft 3.
After each freeze, I restart my computer, and every so often a message comes up with "Your CPU Fan speed is too low, press F1 to continue anyway" or something along those lines, but if I reboot after that screen, it doesn't pop up again.
After I've rebooted, and everything, if I try to play any graphically intensive game again, it will freeze yet again, within a few minutes of playing, it will even freeze during less graphically intensive games, after the first initial freeze.
The interesting part is that when it freezes, anything that I've done such as adding songs to my winamp playlist, or saving over a text file in word, will be reverted to the last known save/playlist.
But not everything gets reverted, for example.. If I were to save a word file, it will get reverted to the last save, but if I save an edited photo, or edited song, they will remain edited.
I think it could be a faulty memory issue but I haven't gotten around to replacing the memory to see if it would prevent it from freezing.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out with this, because I have absolutely no idea what's wrong with my computer.
Thanks,
Forkchops
