nissanman
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Hi all. I have a bit of a problem here.
I have just upgraded my old Pentium 4 1.8Ghz to a 3Ghz Pentium 4 and for some reason, my computer seems to be running a bit unstable.
The thing is, i seem to get random errors popping up (mainly when windows has just finished starting) that say something along the lines of that it failed to load a file properly. The errors do not appear all the time but that is only part of the problem. I also get alot of BSoD's stating that my video driver is at fault but sometimes it doesnt say anything about a file at all. The system also seems to lock up alot. Temps seem to be fine and my motherboard and bios support this type of cpu just fine.
So what do you guys think might be causing this? The Power Supply? or maybe something else? Id really like to get this sorted quickly as i am going to a LAN in a few weeks time. Another thing too, after about 10mins of gameplay in games, artifacts begin to appear. The video cards temp appears to be fine and i have a nice 120mm fan blowing air directly onto it. The artifacts did not happen with my old CPU. Which leads me to believe my power supply is the culprit.
Thanks, Nissanman
I have just upgraded my old Pentium 4 1.8Ghz to a 3Ghz Pentium 4 and for some reason, my computer seems to be running a bit unstable.
The thing is, i seem to get random errors popping up (mainly when windows has just finished starting) that say something along the lines of that it failed to load a file properly. The errors do not appear all the time but that is only part of the problem. I also get alot of BSoD's stating that my video driver is at fault but sometimes it doesnt say anything about a file at all. The system also seems to lock up alot. Temps seem to be fine and my motherboard and bios support this type of cpu just fine.
So what do you guys think might be causing this? The Power Supply? or maybe something else? Id really like to get this sorted quickly as i am going to a LAN in a few weeks time. Another thing too, after about 10mins of gameplay in games, artifacts begin to appear. The video cards temp appears to be fine and i have a nice 120mm fan blowing air directly onto it. The artifacts did not happen with my old CPU. Which leads me to believe my power supply is the culprit.
Thanks, Nissanman