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Did NFL Blitz 2000 (MAME) fry my system?
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SirPoonga:
I don't think it is nfl blitz itself.  You will need alot of power to run blitz and that's why everyone is suggesting your computer over heated.   Your computer was running at 100% for too long.  

Thermal protection should have kicked in and shut your computer down.   So, even after a time of cooling your computer won't come back up?
iwillfearnoevil:
i left my pc up overnight last week and after about 48 hours it shut down and wouldn't start up. i had a crappy powersupply. thankfully a nice new one installed perfectly and my pc booted up no problem. thankfully my cpu/motherboard were okay.
AlanS17:
Are you getting response from fans, hd, etc? Any lights coming on? Try turning the thing on and opening the CD drive. Hopefully it's just the power supply.
pointdablame:
ok, the game didn't kill your system.  A game can't kill a system.

It more than likely ran your system at 100% and, as mentioned, shut it down.  This could be caused by a number of things.  How old is the system? did you ever actually burn it in properly? You may have a hardware issue you didn't know about.  A crappy PSU will easily do this, I've seen it and had it happen.  Underpowered or no-name brand PSUs might do this.  Lack of fans/ventilation could do it too, although most new systems have a shutdown point that stops parts from frying.  If you let the system cool down, it SHOULD have went back on.

You're probably going to have to troubleshoot the hardware for a bit, swap out parts if you have that ability.
PaulG:
If you turn the computer on and get absoluetly nothing (as you seem to be implying), sounds like the power supply.  I'm not an Intel person, and am not familiar with BIOS beeps in-depth, but shouldn't he be getting somekind of beep if the thing is turned on, but the CPU is dead?

And as others have stated, 100 percent CPU activity for 30-40 minutes won't kill a CPU unless something is terribly wrong:  Heatsink/horrid circulation/power supply. Heck, a lot of high end computer games are pushing the CPU as hard as they can go.  You should be able to play hour upon hour and not have a problem.

Would have been a good idea to have had a CPU temperature program installed so you could have seen if your CPU WAS have heating problems, but my money's still on the PS.
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