Fuzzi Bear
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Hi all,
I wonder if you can help with with an issue i've been having with a newly built machine of mine.
The machine im using (spec below) has been fine recently, until i started to run something like Half-life 2 game, which i appreciate is demanding from a graphics point of view. Issue i've had, is that my machine has reset itself. Note, not shut itself down, but actually reset itself, as though someone manually pressed the hard-reset switch.
I run ASUS Probe also, to register CPU / MB temperature etc. When my machine is idle, the temperature averages between 42c-48c of the CPU, and 45c-51c for the motherboard. When running a heavy graphics task, the CPU averages between 58c-63c and about 58c for the motherboard. I've learned that Intel P4s do run hot anyway, so am not too sure about being concerned with the tempratures, unless anyone disagrees with that? Im not sure if the resetting of the machine is due to over heating. Bear in mind that these temperatures are also the same if i open my case, and blow a desk fan onto the whole thing to cool the whole thing down (as a test).
The interesting thing is that whilst playing half-life2, the ASUS probe warning came on, but for the +12V monitoring... the reading was still 11.something, so i was not sure what was wrong. I have a 400w power supp, and have used several websites where you calculate your total power consumption (+30%) which still comes to less than 400w. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
My system's main specs:
Processor:
Pentium 4 - Socket 775
(max speed 4000MHz - current speed 3000MHz)
Board:
ASUS P5GPL Rev 1.xx
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
+ 2 optical drives, 1 SATA HDD, 1 TV tuner card.
Voltage readings:
+12V = 11.774
+5V = 4.992
+3.3V = 3.232
VCore = 1.408
I wonder if you can help with with an issue i've been having with a newly built machine of mine.
The machine im using (spec below) has been fine recently, until i started to run something like Half-life 2 game, which i appreciate is demanding from a graphics point of view. Issue i've had, is that my machine has reset itself. Note, not shut itself down, but actually reset itself, as though someone manually pressed the hard-reset switch.
I run ASUS Probe also, to register CPU / MB temperature etc. When my machine is idle, the temperature averages between 42c-48c of the CPU, and 45c-51c for the motherboard. When running a heavy graphics task, the CPU averages between 58c-63c and about 58c for the motherboard. I've learned that Intel P4s do run hot anyway, so am not too sure about being concerned with the tempratures, unless anyone disagrees with that? Im not sure if the resetting of the machine is due to over heating. Bear in mind that these temperatures are also the same if i open my case, and blow a desk fan onto the whole thing to cool the whole thing down (as a test).
The interesting thing is that whilst playing half-life2, the ASUS probe warning came on, but for the +12V monitoring... the reading was still 11.something, so i was not sure what was wrong. I have a 400w power supp, and have used several websites where you calculate your total power consumption (+30%) which still comes to less than 400w. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
My system's main specs:
Processor:
Pentium 4 - Socket 775
(max speed 4000MHz - current speed 3000MHz)
Board:
ASUS P5GPL Rev 1.xx
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
+ 2 optical drives, 1 SATA HDD, 1 TV tuner card.
Voltage readings:
+12V = 11.774
+5V = 4.992
+3.3V = 3.232
VCore = 1.408