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Can you help me with my computer please :/ ?

  • okay, My computer would be playing one minuite and then randomly switch itself off the next. its not a blue screen thing but it just crashes and the screen says 'No Signal' and all the other output devices do not respond. the only thing i can do is to hold the turn on button until it switches itself off. it happens around every 20 mins but only seems to happen when im running the computer heavilly i.e. playing a game like CoD4 etc. About 3/4 months ago i had a new graphics and sound cards fitted aswell as a new power pack. Do i just need a new computer cause its quite old or is there just a simple issue that i need to resolve? Please help me :D Thanks.

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    In the heat we are having at the moment, I would look into heat problems. If you are able to do so, and have the appropriate experience I would suggest taking the side off the computer and making sure you have no dust in the fans (wear a mask for safety, as compacted dust can be nasty). I would specifically look into the graphics card, as if the screen goes blank when you are playing a game then it’s probably the graphics card that has over heated. If your graphics card is clean, or not too dusty I would look into getting another method of cooling in this heat. A standard house fan with the side off the computer may be a way around it as a temp fix until you can get some good cooling fans for your computer.

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Specifications please. Help us help you and post some info about your PC. Please post your Power supply wattage (in watts) and your graphics card model. I suspect that your PSU doesn't have enough power to run that card. If that's not the case, try monitoring your temps from your BIOS and look for abnormal temps. It could also be a graphics card problem (which might be overheating, shutting down and causing the "No signal" issue).

Masked Musketeer

Look like either your video card or cpu Overheat It shutoff to prevent damage and can restart after it cool off. Get your motherboard monitoring software to monitor cpu heat and rivatuner to monitor Vcard heat. download at http://www.majorgeeks.com/download737.html Give us your computer specification. Either by getting cpuid get it at http://www.cpuid.com/ Or GO to start- run - type dxdiag and click ok. On the first page you will see your system model and brand with maindoard info, CPU and RAM Also go to the Display TAB and there will be your current video card info I check back later if you update

Synn

Is it getting hot? My computer did that when the fan thing got filled with dust. I used can air that you spray. Compressed air isn't it? I could play only for 20 mins too and it turned itself off and it was really burning hot.

Kikko The Great

It has nothing to do with a lack of memory, your computer (windows) has what's called page file which uses hard drive space for memory. It can be your cpu overheating causing your computer to shut down. When was the last time you removed the dust in your computer? Your power supply might also be a problem.

Jim

I need some specs to answer this because I don't know whether your computer can even handle power stacked games like COD4. Plus I like GTAIV you should get it if you don't have.

you need to change your power setting in the control panel, go to start bar the to the control panel and click on the power setting change them to none.

fred

could be lacking memory...goto more options tab at disk cleanup and delete system restore points, you will get gigs back here, also run ccleaner

XIII

if its shutting down after 10..20 minutes if its only started doing this recentl;y then it could be one of several things it could be the computer is overheating (could be the system box isn't venting power could be the graphics card and or the processor cooling sinks are clogged with crud (brushing with a small art brush into an adjacent vacuum cleaner can deal with that. it could be that the PSU isn't meaty enough... although I wouldn't expect that to be an issue as you tend to get spikes in power demand when the CD/DVD is reading from disk. it could be low power, in which case remove all devices connected to your computer whihc aren't need ed for the operation 90that includes all USB devices which draw power from the USB bus (or repalce those with an exteranl USB bus which has its own power supply brick) make sure there is decent airflow around the computer and make sure there is air coming out of the box if it is a heating issue next time it happens check the psu health in the bios on boot up. adding a fan that pumps air out of the box may help overheating problems .

Mark J

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