Simviation Forum - PC cutting down

Apr 30^th, 2005 at 12:15pm

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Hi again,

the last three days my 2yr old banger started new trick of suddenly shutting down in the middle of things, and once felt guilty and did a restart.

Only once when I restarted it it showed:-

" CMOS checksum errordefaults loaded ".

Any sugestions? thanx

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Reply #1 - Apr 30^th, 2005 at 2:16pm

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Did it boot into XP as it should? If you did an OC on it then that is what it has probably re-set. If not, does it do it everytime you boot?
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Reply #2 - Apr 30^th, 2005 at 3:57pm

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Do'nt remember if it went as far as XP,
just can't think what "OC" means' and
not every time I start the PC.

Could my very poor gfx card be overloaded with fs9 etc causing the shutdown?

Also Dan, I am saving for a 6600 gt grfx card, and noticed you use one with 128mb. Would I be better with 256?.
By then I will up to AMD 3500ghz, 1gb ram etc. thanx

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Reply #3 - May 2^nd, 2005 at 12:13am

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OC means overclocking, but it seems you don't know what that means, so I dbout you overclocked.

A 6600 gt is perfect. Again, don't worry about mem size. a 6600 gt with 128mb will perform MUCH better in fs2004 (and many other games like doom 3) than a 256 mb 9800 Xt.

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Reply #4 - May 2^nd, 2005 at 4:29am

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OK, so 128 or 256 will be same on 6600gt grfx card.

Not OCed.

PC cut off again, two days ago, three consecutive times when I dialed up and tried to download an update to my old w98 "Beatle" time-updating small progr.

The first time it rebooted to XP.

No repeats since.

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