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Old 09-02-2011, 12:23 PM
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First, the only thing that will shut you down instantly, and is repeatable, is your BIOS CPU temperature monitor.

Your CPU is not bad, your Power supply at this time does not appear bad.

Go into your BIOS, it may be DEL or F1 or some other key to get there, go to the Monitoring or System Health or some other tab on the screen and find where the CPU Shutodown on temperature XX is and try to raise it a couple celcius.

That is not the problem though. Your CPU cooler is not seated properly, is not adequate for your overclocking, is not adequate for your CPU, your room is too hot, the CPU fan has died or is not spinning to speed, or the fins on the CPU cooler are dirty.

You can use software such as Speedfan to see just how hot things get before shutting down in Windows, btw.

But I bet it is the temperature...my work laptop does it every time I am in a room that is over 80F...we have tried everything physically to cool it, so if it is a hot day with the sun on my desk, I must use a mini fan and a laptop cooler if I plan on doing any work.
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