computer locks up after playing games

[Smith]

Over heating? how many fans u got?

[JMK]

My power supply has dual fans, and then i have my exhaust fan, but i have no intake. Then i have my heatsink that came w/ the cpu.

Btw.. What is a good program to see the temp of the cpu?

I am running winxp32 w/ service pack2

Also, i am pretty sure i dont have a virus, considering that all i did after i reformated was copy my music and to the hard drive and install the games and that was it. I also downloaded adaware and it found nothing.

[Smith]

Well if you had a virus and u burned a cd from before you formatted it could have easily god on the cd and made its way back on ur comp.

Try speed fan:http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php, install it and report back to us.

[JMK]

Well, i downloaded speed fan. It said that my cpu was idle it was around 43C. Then i started up cs source and i ran that for around 5 mins and the cpu was running at 58C and it was slowly climbing even as I shutdown cs. I'm not for sure what is a good temp and what is a bad temp to be running at.

[Smith]

Hmm, im not an expert, but i think thats a little to hot. My comp idles at atound 30C.

Dont take my word for it, wait for someone that knows more about this than me to reply, but i think you might need some more cooling

[JMK]

Alright, I'll wait for an expert . Thank you very much for your help. By The Way thanks for the extremely quick responses

[Smith]

Erm, yah i wouldnt play any games untill you get this sorted out too, just to be safe, dont want to hurt your comp

[JMK]

alright, ill try to keep myself from playing some more cs

[S!X]

How many processes do you have running in taskman?

[JMK]

23 processes when i first bootup my computer

I also just looked the name brand of the power supply and it is "Allied" i dont know if that is a generic kind. I really dont know what a decient brand is for a power supply.