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TheFuriousWombat:
i took a long hiatus from playing computer games of any kind but more recently i started up again. a couple of days ago i was playing half life 2 episode one, when all of a sudden, for no apparant reason, my computer shut down. not restared, just turned itself off. it turned back on when i pressed the power switch and everything seemed to be fine. i didn't try and restart the game. today i did however and things seemed to be going smoothly but after playing for several minutes the same thing happened. now i know nothing very little about computer hardware and so i ask, what could be causing this??? and what can i do about it?

Sarcasmorator:
Is your power switch/cord anywhere near your feet? I've sometimes jostled or unplugged a power cord without realizing it. Or it could be an overheating problem or something wrong with your power supply.

TheFuriousWombat:
i was worried that it might be the power supply. it's definetly not a cord being jostled. the thing is, it's a fairly new computer and the power supply is somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 watts so it really should be adequate. still, i've been having a sinking feeling that this is the problem. not so sure how to verify this though....

thepugs:
I had vaguely similar problem and replacing the power supply worked for me.  Could be a few things though.  Firstly, leave your computer on for a while and see if it turns off.  If you have some sort of temperature diagnostic program, use that to check the temperature.  You could download some hardware test programs and use those, see how everything is checking out.  If you're comfortable working with computer hardware, I'd open it up and make sure nothing is shorting or anything.  Power supplies last an awful long time (my last one worked fine for about 5 years in more than one computer), so make sure it isn't something else before you shell out some cash for another one.

Marauder_Pilot:
I'd call it a temperature issue. Half Life 2 would be riding your computer pretty hard and it's probably overheating.

If you don't want to spend any money, try and make a run with the case side off. If that solves the problem, put it back on and stick a bunch of fans in there. But don't leave it off for any long period, because Bad Things Will Happen to your computer.

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