UT 2004 problem

[Strongbad]

Sometimes during gameplay or even when im looking through the menus my monitor turns off then eventually my whole computer. A guy told me that it could be because of my power supply or because it is overheating. How do i find out whats wrong?

AMD Athlon 2400+ 2.0GHz
512 mb ram
direct x 9.0b
Radeon 9600 xt 128mb

[Vivi]

can u delete this its a repeat?

[polobunny]

Give us your power supply voltage and we'll see if your missing some power.

[Strongbad]

I have no idea what it is and dont know how to find out.

[Cosmic]

If you don't mind taking the back off your computer, it should say on the actual power supply.

[Lord Riff Raff]

Goto the bios. Under a section called "PC Health" or similiar it should show the following things.

PC Temp:
12V voltage:
5V voltage:
3V voltage:

We need to know all of them. Preferably run UT2k4 wait for it to lock and and then reboot to find it out.

[Strongbad]

I dont know how to do what you just said to do lord riff raff so could you please explain.

There is a little red bar on the back of the pc next to the fan and below the power switch that says 115 could that be the voltage.

[Dark Neighbour]

Thats the input voltage. DO NOT PLAY AROUND WITH THAT SWITCH!!!

We're talking about the voltage coming out of the transformer. You can find that in the BIOS, or even in Windows if you have the right programs...

[Strongbad]

How do i go to the BIOS.

[Lord Riff Raff]

Restart the computer. Read what's on the screen at the start. The most common keys to enter the bios are;
Del, F1 or Tab. Del being the most common. Just press the right key when it says:
Press key X to enter/show, etc the bios.

[Strongbad]

Goto the bios. Under a section called "PC Health" or similiar it should show the following things.

PC Temp:
12V voltage:
5V voltage:
3V voltage:

We need to know all of them. Preferably run UT2k4 wait for it to lock and and then reboot to find it out.

I can't find a section like that. The only section that i can find that has voltage stuff is under harware monitor in the power section and this is what that looks like.

Vcore 1.69V
+3.3V 4.81V
+5V 11.85V
+12V

I dout thats the right stuff but its all i could find.

[Dark Neighbour]

Thats sort of what we need...

Do you have a voltage reading for 3.3, cause 4.81 seems mighty big if thats it...not to mention the 11.85 the you have written down for 5V

[Lord Riff Raff]

I think each one needs to be switched down a line. If that's so then 1.69V is far too low for the 3.3V line. I think the power supply is dying, just go over to your local computer store and ask them to swap it for a new power supply, preferably with a higher wattage than your current one.

[Strongbad]

Yeah ok as soon as good ol me gets a few bucks to spend.