my computer keeps shuting down when i am playing pc games like dome 3 monster truck extream and some other games when it shuts down somtimes it wont comeback on for a time sometimes i take the graphics card out and put it bake again and it comes on again i have a all in wonder 9800pro media fx board can you help me please

andy, July 2007

Hi Andy
that sounds like a couple of thing it could be, if you have a fan on your graphics card make sure its working (i know youl probably have checked that) if the machine just "goes off" then it could be a CPU overheating also, also you need to check your power supply as sometimes you can have a thing called "brown outs" where the power supply cannot supply enough power to the computer, ask around about power supplies etc and if it sounds like your problem then there you go. there are a lot of things that can cause this sort of problem though, is it doing it when your not playing games? or only when you are?

Gary, July 2007