My original 500 watt power supply died on me 2 months ago. Money has been real tight for me, so I have been unable to buy a new power supply, but instead I am using a old 300 watt power supply.
When playing games like Spore, or World of Warcraft, after a period of time ranging anywhere from 5 minutes to 1 hour one of 4 things happens.
-The most common problem: The screen turns black and it says "Frequency out of range." I can still hear sound in the background, but usually after a couple of seconds sound stops and I assume the computer freezes.
-The computer instantly freezes screen included.
-Out of no where my entire monitor turns into grey lines and the computer freezes.
The computer downright turns itself off and I cannot turn it back on unless I unplug the power supply and turn it off and on that way.
I have gone into /run dxdiag and forced my refresh rate to match my monitors.
Somewhere, something is not right as far as the heating goes. I have had to take the side off and literally keep a house fan next to my computer or else it will give me frequency out of ranger errors just from browsing the web. Also suffice it to say, playing games with the side on causes the problems when I game to occur almost instantly. My computer is normally cooled with 5 fans when the side is on, I cant see a heating issue. But atm, even with all of that something is giving me a heating problem so I HAVE to keep a house fan next to it.
When all of these problems happen, my video card is cool to the touch. Processor feels warm but nothing out of the ordinary.
I did discover that the fan on my rather weak temporary 300 watt power supply is no longer working. So I am sure that's causing some sort of heating problem. But I am trying to figure out if I am ALSO having video card problems, or if its just solely one or the other. Because alot of these problems based on the research I'be done online, say my video card is going bad.
My Video Card: VisionTek RADEON X1950 Pro XGE (agp) in case anyone wants to know. And I also downloaded speed fan and my processor temps are fine.
Any help anyone can give is greatly appreciated. Thanks. =D
|||could easilly be a low power issue. I doubt its heat if you are browsing the web.
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