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[ldrancer]

hello
i have a computer problem which i cannot figure out.  i thought maybe you guys could help me out.  i have no idea whats wrong.  i have a brand new computer, except the cpu.  its a year old 531 pentium 4.  i have 2 gigs kingston valueram ddr2 667.   tested with memtest86; no problems.  an antec trio 650w psu.  just bought because of this problem thought it may help.  x1950 pro 256mb pci-e sapphire vc; artifact tested with atitool for 20 minutes.  no errors.  idle/load 49C/67C.  pentium 4 531 cpu; tested with prime95 3:30 hours.  no errors.  asrock conroe945g-dvi motherboard.  the problem is i play call of duty 2, only on a server, well one server with 40 players, and a 3 second respawn.  and i play battlefield 2 on 64 player servers.  my computer idle/load temps are 46C/59C.  during battlefield 2 my video card temps are 54C.  during call of duty 2 my vc temps are 65C.  during both games my computer will start skipping;  it will skip like a cd.  and doesn't respond.  i have to hard reboot my computer.  it started as only call of duty doing this after maybe 2 hours of play.  it got worse until it was around 30 minutes.  then i played battlefield 2 until i was sick of it.  the went back and played call of duty 2.  within 10 minutes my computer was skipping.  i went back to battlefield 2.  before this i could play for 8 hours straight with no computer problems.  after going and playing call of duty 2 and it making my computer skip within 10 minutes, battlefield 2 was making my computer skip within an hour and a half.  now its at around fifty minutes.  and call of duty 2 on that one server its 10 minutes until my computer skips.  anyone ever heard of this.  and does anyone know what my computer problem could be.  i was thinking cpu.  it had heat problems before, and i wasnt too good at putting on the heatsink at first.  my motherboard shut down the cpu though before the temperatures got real hot.  and the heat problem was dust, and i bought compressed air, and the error went away.  i have tried blowing the video card heatsink out, and ive cleaned the heatsink on the cpu.  ive lowered my room temperatures, and used a room fan on an open case.  one night i got battlefield 2 to play for around 4 or 5 hours.  with a cool room.  but recently nothing makes my computer keep from skipping.  here is a video i made 5 minutes long of my computer skipping.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_t3m7fJJw  thanks

[honvetops]

I quote*  i have a brand new computer, except the cpu.

i was thinking cpu 

i wasnt too good at putting on the heatsink at first.   

  One common sense approach is " is the inside of your case a freakin mess?  Do you have ide cables blocking airflow inside there and a somewhat hot room ?   Are you using a stock heatsink/ fan or a better one like  Zalman or others?  Did you*  reset the old cpu in there and / or  use artic 5  or a good paste? 

Get very descriptive in your response and more info if you omitted before *  THanks

[ldrancer]

ok more info on computer.  i just learned how to put a p4 heatsink on. .. just now.  well the last time i reseated it.  before i would never get the pins locked in.  i have it seated well right now.  using artic silver 5 thermal paste.  my computer is the only component out of these games, that has the same temperature when playing these games.  i know battlefield 2 can be hard on a computer when playing single player.  and call of duty 2 is more video card hungry but should also use the computer.  my idle temps, are 48C and load is 59C.  for my computer.  im using stock intel heatsink.  beside not having the luxury of having a good heatsink i have gotten my room to freezing temperatures before with the side of my case off with a room fan the big 2'x2' fan.  idle temps then where 28C.  i don't know what load temps where, i think i alt+tabbed out once, and temps where around 48C.  still then my pc skipped.  my computer case, is pretty well kept.  i bought compressed air, and blow out dust when it accumulates.  case isnt really a mess, but the airflow, well theres not much.  it has one 80mm fan in the back sucking air out, but right now theirs no side on the case.  room is cool its cold outside and my windows are open. 
myheat problem i had once was dust, and first i got bsod and the error mentioned my videocard.  this was old parts same cpu.  i reinstalled my video drivers and my problem went away for like 4 days but then my computer was rebooting.  and prime95 couldnt run 10 minutes without giving me an error.  well, i figured dust, bought compressed air, and blew out the heatsink, actually i think it was malformed.  so i used the heatsink i got with my computer, same stock intel heatsink.  and i blew out what dust was on it, and no more rebooting.  anyway, i have took my heatsink off twice, once to clean dust, second time, because i thought the old thermal grease looked in bad shape.  and i cleaned what dust i saw, and cleaned the grease off the heatsink and cpu and put fresh coat.  still i get this skip.  my case is pretty neat.  i have sleeved cables.  the ide are moved out of the way.  ill take a pciture!

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[ldrancer]

well you have more infO on MY COMPUTER than about yours.  does anyone have an idea?
i mean any heres some more info on what i did recently.  i have my computer air conditioned.  24C cpu temps.  29C video card temps.  thats idle.  i usually get an extra 10-15C temperature jumps when i set them on load.   i mean every bit of my computer is cooled.  still i got an extra 4 minutes of play time on battlefield 2.  rather than 50 it was 54 minutes.  i ran everest and logged my cpu temps while playing.  theirs no big jump in temperatures before my computer skips.  and ive logged my video card temps.  the temperatures stay around my idle load temps.  no real big increase in temps before the skipping.
recently battlefield 2 is making it about 30-40 minutes before skipping.  ive tried some cooling, and bought a new power supply.  ok

[Flip81]

type of HDD??  how much space is left?

[ldrancer]

 Space Left On [C: 60.78/186.31 GB. D: 25.62/76.33 GB. Total: 86.4/262.64 GB]
both maxtor 7200 rpm.  the 80g is a diamondback 9 the other is maxtor basics. but my hardrive wont cause this error.  im not having any other problems.  this is my problem with two games.  and with battlefield 2 any server with full players.  on cod2 only on servers where you instant respawn.  actually the other day i was playing search and destroy.  once you die you don't respawn until the next round.  i specced the first round.  second i died early on by gun.  and third same, i was speccing after this everyone was talking, then my computer crashed.  with about 4 players left on each team.  it happens on punkbuster and not punkbuster protected servers.  i have reinstalled battlefield 2 and deleted any folders left to get rid of any files.  and fresh installed and patched.  and game still skips. 

[patio]

How much did you spend on that PSU ? ?

[ldrancer]

thats totally irrevelant.  you know the brand name.  i posted that in the first post.  but if your willing to reimburse me ill be sure to just send me all the money you have ill send back the extra.  if it's not enough just keep sending and once youve reimbursed me ill be sure to send any money extra.  once youve hit the mark, and not over, then if you send more money  hehehee ill send it back youll know youve hit the mark.

[patio]

Well with the excellent punctuation and sentence structure it was a little hard to find out what PSU you have.
Actually it's a bit hard to make any sense of it at all.

[RankenTech]

an antec trio 650w psu.  just bought because of this problem thought it may help.

I do believe he mentioned it in the first post...heh.