help!

[firexstorm]

everytime i do something like play games really long or open a bunch of progz my computer either freezes or automatically restarts. i also have arctic cooling installed on my video card and arctic cooling cpu fan too. im not sure if its my PSU or my motherboard. my PSU is only 300watt.
computer specs
Pentium 4 2.4B
ASUS P4S8X-X Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon 9800SE (r360 core)
2x 512mb PC2700 Samsung RAM
HITACHI 60GB hard drive
Sound Blaster Audigy ES
please help!

 

[jammydodger]

Firstly, why in the name of God did you get a 9800SE? It both sucks and blows.

Now to your problem, what kinda temps you getting (use motherboard monitor). What are your voltages like? Are you sure you have mounted the heatsinks correctly? Are you using thermal paste? Run memtest86 for a few hours see if you get memory errors.

 

[Crashman]

Congrats on having an almost stable system using that board. There was a severe design issue that caused problems with the memory bus, and affected AGP8x transfers.

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