Overheating?

[SoulKeeper]

My computer randomly shuts off, this only happens when I render a video in Sony Vegas as well... I left it off all last night and tried it this morning, it shut off within 10 minutes... It will always crash at around 10 minutes, no matter what conditions. I even have a fan next to my PC on max directed to the back of it. (where he fan and shit is)

 

I can easily leave my PC on CS:S for from what I know, 24+ hours without issues...

 

Is my PC overheating or what? How can I fix it?

[Shadowex3]

What happens when you stick a potato in a car's exhaust? Hold on that thought. Now, what happens (thermally) to your PC when you direct airflow towards your PC's exhaust fans?

 

if you want to check for thermal issues use a benchmarking program to stress your CPU (prime95 is the gold standard), then use something like furmark and/or ATItool to benchmark/stresstest your GPU. Possibly both at the same time.

 

It could also be a crash-to-reboot in the program itself hence the 10 minute timer.

[Spiffy]

Well, since CS:S seems fine and it turns off when you render video it seems like your processor is overheating is anything is. It could also be memory though. I can't think any good temp monitoring software off the top of my head, maybe someone else can post one.

[Lucid]

It could be a fault in the program. I don't know if you have the Cracked Sony Vegas or not, but I had a

version of Corel Videostudio, and the program itself would crash after a little bit.

 

It probably isn't an overheating issue.

[SoulKeeper]

It could be a fault in the program. I don't know if you have the Cracked Sony Vegas or not, but I had a

version of Corel Videostudio, and the program itself would crash after a little bit.

 

It probably isn't an overheating issue.

 

*cough* Even if it worked for everything before?

 

I think its memory, the uncut, unedited file was 44GB/22GB...

[Shadowex3]

then run memtest.