I have been experiencing system crashes for some time now. My system has been working ok for a few months but now weird thingsa start to happen.
If I have my computer switched on during the whole day with a few simple tasks up and running the computer might crash and reboot after 8-18 hours. Though if I boot my computer and then run a high end game like Far Cry or Half Life 2 the computer crashes and reboots after 10-50 minutes (and it does this always).
I am not a big gamer myself but if I only can play a game for 10-50 minutes at a time (normaly 15 minutes) then I would rather not play at all.
What I figured this has to be is a failing powersupply witch cant keep up with the high load.
My system devices that use power are:
2600+ Athlon XP
1Gb DDR400 RAM
Radeon 9600XT
Network card
Creative Sound Blaster
1 HDD at normal speed
And my Powersupply supplies 300 Watts, and is a cheap thing I got from my sisters old computer.
Could it be anything other than the powersupply? Should I try formating the computer or updating bios? Or could it be another hardware error?
Any help is much apreciated.
If I have my computer switched on during the whole day with a few simple tasks up and running the computer might crash and reboot after 8-18 hours. Though if I boot my computer and then run a high end game like Far Cry or Half Life 2 the computer crashes and reboots after 10-50 minutes (and it does this always).
I am not a big gamer myself but if I only can play a game for 10-50 minutes at a time (normaly 15 minutes) then I would rather not play at all.
What I figured this has to be is a failing powersupply witch cant keep up with the high load.
My system devices that use power are:
2600+ Athlon XP
1Gb DDR400 RAM
Radeon 9600XT
Network card
Creative Sound Blaster
1 HDD at normal speed
And my Powersupply supplies 300 Watts, and is a cheap thing I got from my sisters old computer.
Could it be anything other than the powersupply? Should I try formating the computer or updating bios? Or could it be another hardware error?
Any help is much apreciated.