video card overheating??

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Alx717

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my computer is a year old and this problem just started within like the past 6 months or so. About 30 minutes or so, some times less, into playing a game (generally age of empires 3) the game will either close and the error report thing will come up or the computer will restart and then say it has recovered from a major error or something like that. I was told that this was an overheating problem but the only reason i am skeptical is because the computer worked fine for the first 6 months i owned it and i played games that are just as graphics intense, if not more. Any ideas??

Edit: the video card is an ati 9600 agp and the hottest i've seen my temps are 51C cpu ad like 45 or 46C case
 
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oh and just in case it matters, i have the processor overclocked a little, i think the default is 1.8ghz and it's set to 1.91; it's an athlon xp 2800+barton
 
i set the processor as low as it would go, all the way to 1.14ghz and the problem didn't stop, but an error report thing came up and i decided to report it and then this came up:
Error type : Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? : No (see Next steps)
What does this error mean? : Windows has encountered an error from which it cannot recover and needs to restart
Cause : Unknown device driver
Computer symptoms : A message appears on a blue screen with error code information (for example: e.g. 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)
Additional steps for you to take : Important: Please continue to send error reports so analysts at Microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as quickly as possible

i guess maybe it might not be that it's overheating. i'll go to ati's website and see if they have some new drivers i can install for the video card. any other suggestions?
 
i installed ati catalys which i guess is basically the universal driver for ati video cards and that seems to fix the problem. I suppose i can bring my processor back up from 1.1 ghz now..
 
Maybe your card is overheating and the reason it didnt before was because dust. Open up your computer and clean out the dust.
 
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