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Freezing and crashing all the time

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Alice

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Feb 17, 2004
Location
Ca USA
I have two computers:
*Compaq Presario SR1265CL
and:
*ASUS P4P800SE (I think)
I can get all the specs if necessary.

Both of them have the same problem. Whenever I play BF2, watch internet videos, or try to download stuff, the computer crashes, freezes, or reboots. I tried changing the video card a bunch of times (like 5 different cards), swapping the power supplies between the two computers, changing the ram, running memtest, reinstalling the OS... nothing works. So I figure the problem has to be one of the following:
*both motherboards are damaged
*both power supplies are damaged
*all the video cards are damaged

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks in advance!
 
Both machines have the latest BIOS revision, and yes I've tried reformatting.
 
Hmm , latest BIOS .. so your motherboard might not be damaged , since you think that your video cards are damaged , why don't you try updating them ? try cleaning your registry using ccleaner , or try disk checking by typing chkdsk/r in command prompt , try defragging your hdds' ..
 
Yeah, not really helpful, as I said I reformatted, reinstalled XP, and tried every AGP card I own; Thanks for trying though.

It might be important to note that the USB mouse and keyboard sometimes stop working and I have to unplug and replug them. From what I hear, that usually means a bad PSU. Can anyone verify this?
 
The Same thing has happened with me on windows 7 along with blue screens .. but my win 8 works perfectly.
 
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