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Microsoft
11-01-01, 10:10 PM
It only happens when im playing a game

I get dropped to the desktop like a bad habbit usually after about 5-10 min of gameplay

my speakers make a cracky noise i get a blue screen cant read it fast enough and it restarts my computer

Microsoft
11-01-01, 10:13 PM
if anyone asks

Kendan
11-01-01, 10:16 PM
It sounds like an unstable overclock. Try running prime95 and see if you get any errors.

William
11-01-01, 10:18 PM
memory problem? too high of an overclock, those two things sound suspicious, even though you have low temps. Especially the memory, are you on a non standard fsb? Other than that it sounds like a code in the game that is causing win xp to barf. Is it more than one game that is doing it? If it is that starts smelling like a memory error, pci bus error, and heat. Scale your overclock down some and see what happens. That should tell you VERY quickly where the problem is.

Microsoft
11-01-01, 10:21 PM
may clock down but its been stable so far

i havent really loaded any other games

William
11-01-01, 11:21 PM
try prime95 and see what happens from there. Often a "stable" system isn't. You are running SETI I assume, and that is pretty good, but Prime is harder and will find errors. Try another game or two and an underclock, you should find the problem fairly quickly that way.