steve_urkel2
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Hi there, I stumbled across this forum searching for a similiar problem I am having. I am at a loss for words on how to fix it and its very annoying. I bought an Alienware PC in May of 2006 and have had no problems until I moved. I wasn't playing many games but once I started to after 30-45 minutes, and sometimes as long as 2+ hours my computer just turns off. There is no warning, no errors when booting up either. It just turns off. Here is the computer in question:
Processor: Intel® Pentium® D Processor 950 w/ Dual Core Technology 3.4GHz 800MHz FSB
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2
Power Supply: Alienware® 650 Watt ATX 2.0 Power Supply with Active PFC
Motherboard: Alienware® NVidia nForce™4 SLI™ X16 Motherboard
Graphics Processor: 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 GT
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive: High Performance - 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
Storage Drive: High Performance - 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Secondary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 52x32x52x CD-RW Drive
Sound Card: Alienware® Edition Sound Blaster® X-Fi® High Definition 7.1 Audio with XRAM Technology
Primary Display: Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF 21" CRT Display - Black
What is really worrying is that it does this while playing Rainbow Six: Vegas and while running Everest my GPU temp approaches 80+ very quickly. The fan works and everything also. I can't understand why it would be doing this while playing very low load games like Quake 3 though but its happening virtually any game I play for a while.
I will just be happily blasting away and all of a sudden monitor goes black computer makes a loud shutdown noise, everything goes silent. I get no problems afterwards when I boot up or anything but i'm worried I might be damaging the hardware letting this continue. I've had about 10-15 crashes in the past week and I need to hang up my gaming pants until I can fix it. The sad thing is my warranty is void (only purchased the 90 day one) and I don't wanna have to spend a ton of money to fix the problem.
Thank you for reading this and I look forward to finding out any solutions!
Processor: Intel® Pentium® D Processor 950 w/ Dual Core Technology 3.4GHz 800MHz FSB
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2
Power Supply: Alienware® 650 Watt ATX 2.0 Power Supply with Active PFC
Motherboard: Alienware® NVidia nForce™4 SLI™ X16 Motherboard
Graphics Processor: 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 GT
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive: High Performance - 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
Storage Drive: High Performance - 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Secondary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 52x32x52x CD-RW Drive
Sound Card: Alienware® Edition Sound Blaster® X-Fi® High Definition 7.1 Audio with XRAM Technology
Primary Display: Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF 21" CRT Display - Black
What is really worrying is that it does this while playing Rainbow Six: Vegas and while running Everest my GPU temp approaches 80+ very quickly. The fan works and everything also. I can't understand why it would be doing this while playing very low load games like Quake 3 though but its happening virtually any game I play for a while.
I will just be happily blasting away and all of a sudden monitor goes black computer makes a loud shutdown noise, everything goes silent. I get no problems afterwards when I boot up or anything but i'm worried I might be damaging the hardware letting this continue. I've had about 10-15 crashes in the past week and I need to hang up my gaming pants until I can fix it. The sad thing is my warranty is void (only purchased the 90 day one) and I don't wanna have to spend a ton of money to fix the problem.
Thank you for reading this and I look forward to finding out any solutions!