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On 11/3/2005 12:52 AM OscartheGrouch brightened our day with:

>In Doom3 I kept getting kicked to desktop. My cpu was running really hot 
>then, I replaced it with a good heatsink and never got booted to desktop 
>again. Until now in Q4. CPU is running around 132F (57C). It was running way 
>higher in D3. MB running 95F (35C) and GPU around 53C, whatever that is in 
>farenheit. Is my gpu running too hot? Geforce 6800GT, Athalon 2800+, 1 gig 
>dram, Asus A7N8X. I can't play 5 minutes without getting kicked to desktop, 
>no error messages. TIA, OTG 
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You should try running RivaTuner's Hardware Monitoring.  Set it to watch 
your GPU during a game.  My 6800 shoots up to 70c when gaming, no 
problems, supposed to go that high, I think if for some reason you were 
going into the 80's or 90's on your GPU, then you'd be in trouble.
Is your CPU overclocked?  If it isn't overclocked then 57 might be OK, 
if it is overclocked then you need to get the temp down.  I have an XP 
running at 2200 MHz, it idles at 42c and knocks on the door around 50c 
when gaming.  If it was me I'd freak out if I was running at 57, but 
then my CPU is overclocked by 20%. 
How are you getting the 57 temperature?  When you check some monitoring 
software for highest temperatures, often they'll show "spikes" that 
aren't really indicative of the actual temperatures achieved under load. 
Check Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer  after you get one 
of these crash to desktop and see if there's an application error.
I should point out that it's happened to me too, getting dumped to the 
desktop.  The event viewer display two error messages that are devoid of 
information.  It's only happened to me a couple times and only playing 
single player

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