Crashing

[Fire]

Haven't posted here in 9 months or so~ Untill recently my pc was fine but couple nights ago i left it on and power went out and apparently messed up something. I can do everything i usee to do except when i play FFXI it crashes after about 3-10 minutes. After it rstarted the emergency system recovery told me it was a problem with my ati drivers. So I went to ati website and downloaded the newest drivers they had for my 9600pro and it still crashes. ;/ Also it seems that my videocard is now running kind of hot, I allready had 2 fans inside my pc but i took off the side and put an actual fan blowing into it but still no help. T_T Any help would be appreciated. ;/

[Doppelganger]

what do you mean by "hot", >50 degrees or >60?


as for ati 9600 fans, im guessing they are the worst ati fans out there, my fan for 9600xt has been acting funny since feb and i also had restart problems... all i did is wable the card's fan around a bit (and unplugged, waited, repluged in fan cable)... still don't know if it's a fan problem overheating card or causing power fluxuations, but either way the restart stopped after fidgeting with fan (and ordering new case fan cuz that thing splurted... damn dell and cheap single case fan).

btw, my card runs between 42 on a cold day and 56 on a hot day after playing some game (war3 is worst, gunbound seems least damaging)

[Fire]

not sure how hot its running ; ; thx tho will try to screw around with the fan cords ;/