One problem after another.....

[Autohate]

okay, now that i got everything working perfectly fine.....something else of course had to come up.

this isnt really gameex related im guessing(obvious)

so when i turn my cpu on and load everything up, 2-3 times the cpu freezes and shuts off right away. the other 1-3 it lets me load up whatever i want to do, and then it freezes mid game.....

why is it doing this? bad hard drive? overheating is not an option, i have about 4 coolers in it. only thing i can think of is hard drive, but i dont want to buy another one if its not needed. let me know your thoughts fellas, this is always a place where i get fast answers.

[Tempest]

I would check and make sure all boards and connectors are seated properly....

[Brian Hoffman]

ITs overheating most likely..Perhaps your 4 case fans isnt sufficient.. Perhaps its your GPU overheating.

Other than that could be a shoody powersupply.

[HooPZ]

ITs overheating most likely..Perhaps your 4 case fans isnt sufficient.. Perhaps its your GPU overheating.

Other than that could be a shoody powersupply.

I would reseat the cpu after putting new thermal paste on there and see if that fixes the problem.

[bkenobi]

I doubt it's the CPU not seated correctly. With modern CPU's, they are either in correctly or you just F'ed it up. I vote for overheating with the second option being power supply (as did Brian). If the system is overheating, you should be able to go to bios upon reboot after it freezes and see the temp WAY high. If it's a GPU though, you won't be able to see that temp. My suggestion would be to aim a room fan directly at the guts of the PC and see if it runs longer. I had a system crash randomly during the summer when I was at school. The resolution I came up with was pulling the drive bay covers off the front and aiming a fan at the opening. As a side benefit, I cooled my feet off at the same time!

Be careful if it's a bad PSU. I had one kill at least one hard drive. I can't remember if I used the same PSU when both drives died or not, but losing your data sucks!