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Recently, my second-story Southern CA apt toasted up to over 90 degress (sorry, no A/C) - it was merciless. The only way to beat the heat is to continue computing, so I did so ..until my PC shutdown automatically - I figured as a result the heat of the apt effecting the processor, etc. The PC was built-from-scratch last year by a capable friend and I was under the impression that my processor, graphics card and powersupply fans could handle 'anything.'
It's cooled back down now, but ever since that original shutdown my machine seizes/shutsdown (doesn't auto-restart) regularly when my application usage is intense, e.g. (particularly when) playing Battlefield2 or - let's say - running a combination of a zillion (30 or so) tabs in Firefox with iTunes and Photoshop processing. Ripping data off my homemade DVDs is also a shutdown culprit. My widget that monitors cpu/mem gets up into 90% - on both counts - when in the past it used to breeze through similar application usage situations.
Anyway, I'm under the impression that perhaps the processor was damaged from the heat that weekend ..and/or perhaps the video card, hard drive, mother board and/or possibly the RAM. I'd like to fix the suspect component(s) and get on with my life.
1. is there a good diagnostic tool to tell which hardware is damaged?
2. are these symptoms a specific idicator of which hardware is damaged?
3. thanks for your help!
My system:
- AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Processor
- BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
- BFG Tech GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit PCI Express Video Card
- HIPER ATX12V v2.2 580W Power Supply
- MASSCOOL 80mm Case Fan
- Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR SDRAM
It's cooled back down now, but ever since that original shutdown my machine seizes/shutsdown (doesn't auto-restart) regularly when my application usage is intense, e.g. (particularly when) playing Battlefield2 or - let's say - running a combination of a zillion (30 or so) tabs in Firefox with iTunes and Photoshop processing. Ripping data off my homemade DVDs is also a shutdown culprit. My widget that monitors cpu/mem gets up into 90% - on both counts - when in the past it used to breeze through similar application usage situations.
Anyway, I'm under the impression that perhaps the processor was damaged from the heat that weekend ..and/or perhaps the video card, hard drive, mother board and/or possibly the RAM. I'd like to fix the suspect component(s) and get on with my life.
1. is there a good diagnostic tool to tell which hardware is damaged?
2. are these symptoms a specific idicator of which hardware is damaged?
3. thanks for your help!
My system:
- AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Processor
- BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
- BFG Tech GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit PCI Express Video Card
- HIPER ATX12V v2.2 580W Power Supply
- MASSCOOL 80mm Case Fan
- Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR SDRAM
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