Hi, I'm desperately looking for some assistance.
 
AMD 1.35
512 ram
geforce 4 ti 4600 128 ram
Sound blaster audigy 2
80 gig hd
xp home
 
 
When playing a game, it crashes anywhere from instantly
to a couple minutes into the game, but nothing further.
 
I did a bunch of troubleshooting and nothing worked. I
then purchased a larger hard drive and did a clean
install. I updated all drivers for everything, 3d,
windows, chipset, directx, etc....all is updated. I ran
3dmark 2001 and it crashed to desktop like the games
did. I figured it was my 3d card. I put the 3d card
into another computer and it did not crash.
 
I brought my system to a tech support team and they
worked on it. They couldnt find anything wrong with it
at all and told me they guess the card is overheating. I
got a RMA for the card and got it replaced. Put it back
in and the system still crashes. I did find that my cpu
was running way hot (75 celcius normal, 90 celcius gaming)
which was surprising cuase i have ample cooling. I
pulled it apart and added new thermal gel and system runs
at 52-56 celcius normal and 60 celcius max gaming. It
seems to be cooler and no alarms are going off due to the
heat now. The only problem I may see is that it it
displays my core voltage at +1.76 (red zone) but I'm not
sure what it should be at as the bios says 1.76 (i think
this is its current voltage).
 
I do not know what else to try, please give any sort of
assistance as I have run out of avenues. Noone I talk to
can tell me anything new that I havent tried already.
 
Thanks in advance.