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"Rather Urgent-ish -- Constant Crashing"

It's my our old friend - my dad's PC.

A while ago, he got a new Gfx card - ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, Tyan Tachyon make.

Anyways, recently it's been freezing after about 1-2 minutes of playing Moh:AA.

It used to be fine, it's all so suddenly. Moh: AA Breakthrough (the Expansion) was fine also.

So what's going on?
It's all (seems to be) installed properly.
It has a built on thermometer thingy, and checking that before play, it's only touching 30 degrees C, and the danger area is 70.

Hmm.
Help!

(And MOD - I'm going to slap you if you touch this thread)

No CPU fan?

I'm surprised the thing even boots.

*Bangs head off desk repeatedly*

Replace all mentioning of CPU with chipset.

In the middle.
Guh.

Yup.

How... helpful.

You can buy an enahnced NB chipset cooler off me fora fiver in eBay. It covers more surface area and therefore doesn't need a fan; it's also manufactured by Zalman, so top quality is assured.

So is it likely that it's the chipset that's overheating, and crashing the computer then?

Well considering there's fan over the CPU, then yes - though it's probably due to dust more than anything.

Replace considering with assuming.

Oh another reason could be that the motherboard is incompatible with the GPU.

I have heard of GPU's on certain motherboards but it is widely documented and would be on the motherboard manafacturers site, The fact there is no heatsink on the northbridge isnt that bad as the motherboard manafacturer would not have made the motherboard without a chipset fan if it hadnt been tested thouroughly, check the heat of the actuall cpu in windows, try using another program like hmonitor which detects the cpu heat and the voltages then see them when system is under load.

Colin