This can be a sign the motherboard capacitors are starting to fail. Look at the pictures and compare to yours at http://www.badcaps.net/ident/
If you have this issue, cooling only cures it for a short while.
Bob
I posted a problem with my PC overheating recently and then bought a fan for my video card, it is the correct fan as I took advice from various websites and settled on the fan they all reccomended.
My PC still resets when playing games and must be due to overheating, as after reading other topic on this forum, I tried running the games on the PC with the cover off and a household fan pointed at the PC. the games then worked fine.
I would be quite happy to continue doing this if it were practical, but unfortunately it is not. so do i need some case fans or other cooling system? what do people reccomend?
also, the fan for the video card used the last free connector from my PC's power supply, does that mean if I buy a case fan that I will need an extra power supply? or can I get double conectors or something?
cheers for your help.
andy
my PC is an eMachines 770, 2.40 Ghz Intel Pentium 4, 80GB Hard Drive, 256 MB DDR, CDRW, DVDROM, GeForce 4MX 440.

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