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What kind of power supply? What's your hardware inventory? What kind of crashes? Are the problem applications just dumping back to Windows or is the machine locking up? Any video artifacts?
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I've already tested the power supply.
I don't even know where to get a total listing of all the stuff I have in my machine. Soemthing like:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1024 RAM
SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
DVD/CD Writer/Burner
Asus A8V Deluxe Mainboard
120 GB HDD
Windows XP Service Pack 2
As for the crashing, it's a hard freeze. The screen either freezes or blacks out, or displays garbage, and the audio chokes, playing the same quarter second of noise on loop until I power down or reset the computer. It won't accept input of any kind, and reboots itself if I let it stand long enough (a minute or two).
Windows, nor any other program keeps any record of the malfunction, It's obviously hardware based. When I first strapped the extra chassis fans to my vidcard, it ran without incident for a day or two on whatever program I wanted. Now it's back to the same thing, crashing five minutes after I get into {insert graphics intensive game here}.