I just got a new computer and when ever i try and run a 3d game or alot of proceses my computer shuts down. can anyone help?

Specs plz! Real shut down or just a reboot?

like power off.
AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+
1.15GHz
768 MB of RAM and im running Xp

Hmm, try to update your win XP and video card drivers, if it doesn't work, I really don'T know :|

P.S. Your Xp 2600+ run at 1.15ghz?

go to your device manager and check for conflicts. sounds like a bad irq setting.

Hmm... does you comp shut down all the time, or only when you try new games? How does it shut down, with a warning, or not?

Something like that happened to me twice. Once it was a virus, and another time the vent on my processor broke.

guil, AMD's all run at lower "speeds" than their intel counterparts, due to the clock speed in the processor. that is the primary reason that they name their Athlon line using 2700, 2800+, 3200, etc. this is to let people know that that processor is comparable (though not QUITE as good, check out a few benchmarks) to that speed of intel processor.

anyways...

juice, how many watts is your power supply? if you have one of the new 256mb super-gfx thingy 500$ video cards, you might be drawing more power than a pitiful 330 watt power supply provides. in that case you'd need to purchase a 550 and replace the 330. maybe you don't even have a 330 -_-.

well my friend fixed it. He screwed around in the system Bios then smacked the side of my case.

quote:Originally posted by aLpHaNuMe12iK
guil, AMD's all run at lower "speeds" than their intel counterparts, due to the clock speed in the processor. that is the primary reason that they name their Athlon line using 2700, 2800+, 3200, etc. this is to let people know that that processor is comparable (though not QUITE as good, check out a few benchmarks) to that speed of intel processor.


I know but it's CPU suppose to run at 2.2 ghz not 1.5 :|

Yeah, lol

the 2600+ runs at 2.14 GHz

rofl, I was thinkin' the same thing Guil ;)

oh well glad u got it fixed ^^