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To: Dan3 who wrote (255161)	8/3/2008 8:26:17 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, If it has an Antec power supply, it's probably the power supply causing problems. It is an Antec power supply. I have some PS tester at work - a tester that, incidentally Antec sells. I am going to bring it home and see what it reports. BTW, I have had a similar problem about 4 years ago. Computer started to act up in power hungry 3D apps. I checked the voltages, and they were even lower that my current readings. Replacing PS solved the problems... I think I will go with this plan (replacing PS, when I come back from vacation) and see what happens. You should also check the capacitors for bulging and run memtest to see if a DIMM went bad. This mobo is not that old - less than 2 years old. I think this is way past the bad capacitor "era". I will try memtest..., but I still thing it has to do with power or graphics. Is it possible that the graphics card just went bad? The graphics card is about 2 years old, nVidia 7900 GTX I believe. I never overclocked it. It runs at rated speed. I wonder what happens if I under-clock it... I am going to try that... Joe