My guess is that you have two very hot items listed: the athlon 3000+ and the Radeon 9800 pro.  Both generate a lot of heat that needs to be dissipated. That it heats up, shuts down and won't allow a restart for a minute or so sounds like a heat problem. A possible solution would be a front and rear fan arrangement (pull cool air in the front and push it out the back) in addition to the power supply fan, the CPU fan, and the fan on the Radeon.  You might also want to use round data cables instead of flat ribbon cables to get better air flow. Check to be sure all fans you now have are working.


>i just put together a new pc
>biostar m7viz km400 mobo
>athalon xp 3000+
>and a radeon 9800pro 128mb ddr
>
>now whenever i try to run something that would take up some resources on my
>video card ( or so it would appear) such as 3dmark or any pc game for that
>matter after a minute or so my computer will just completely shut itself
>down and it will not let me restart it for a minute or so.. a friend of mine
>said this may be a driver issue but as far as i know i have the latest
>drivers.. it seems like a very serious problem and i need help to remedy
>this situation.. any help would be very very very much appreciated..
>thank you for your time,  Matt Butler
>


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