[riley140583]

my pc keeps restarting itself whenever i play games for too long or play dvds even when i have too many applications on. at first i thought it was a heat problem so changed my heatsink fan and got an extraction fan to take the heat out but it still turns off so now im out of ideas so any help will be appreciated

spec.
asus k7s8xe (think thats right)
geforce5600fx
amd2800xp
512mb
120mb hard drive seagate

[Mekismo]

Ok, first thing to do in this case is to turn off the Automatically Restart option:

control panel, then system, then click advance tab, click the settings button in the Startup and Recovery area, then unchceck the automatically restart option.

This should give you the BSOD error when your pc crashes rather than it rebooting, so you can see what error is causing your pc to crash.

Let us know what happens

Regards

Meki

[riley140583]

will do at work at the mo so ill try it when i get home and let you know hoe it goes

[riley140583]

ah the joys of my pc for the first time in about a month it didnt crash last night so unable to take down the error message was wondering whether it could have anything to do with moving memory from one slo to another. also resting temp for my cpu is 50c is that too high

[Me__2001]

50C is high, have a look at the HSF, is there much dust on it ? what HSF did you get ? does your graphics card have a fan on it ?

[riley140583]

ive just bought a brand new thermalake fan: see below

Number of Fans 1 Connector Type 3 PIN Comments Thermaltake Slim Volcano 10 Highest Performance Cooler,
Specification: Fan Dimension 66x60x10 mm,
Heatsink Dimension 67x60x28.8 mm,
Fan Speed 4500 ±10% RPM,
Max. Air Flow 21 CFM,
Noise 38 dBA,
1 Ball Bearing,
3-point fixed,

also placed a pci slot fan to take air out of the system

yeah my graphics card does have a fan on it. by the way motherboard temp is 33 c if that helps

[muckshifter]

Originally Posted by riley140583

ah the joys of my pc for the first time in about a month it didnt crash last night so unable to take down the error message was wondering whether it could have anything to do with moving memory from one slo to another. also resting temp for my cpu is 50c is that too high

Moving memory? then you get a 'crashing' problem ... hmmm?

Temps are fine, as far as I am concerned, I run at 55, but then I like that figure & I don't have any 'crashing' ...

If you followed Mekismo's good advice, I would just wait ...

[riley140583]

ah well the plot she thickens i changed the settings in system but still it restarted crashed 3 times last night while playing doom 3 slight flash of blue with white writing on it not enough time to get anything down and off she went and restarted

[muckshifter]

Ok ... open Administrative Tools. Double click Event Viewer then click on system. Scroll down till you see the error red circle with the X. Double click on that, then on Description at the end it will say "For More Information.........." Click on the Microsoft link and if there are any articles in the data base referring to that error code, they will come up ... if not, well don't play Doom.

Lincoln Spector
From PC World magazine

Sudden Reboots

There are a lot of possible causes for sudden reboots. If they happen only when you run a particular application, that program is probably the culprit. Check the software vendor's web site for an update or look for a more stable program.

Try finding the miscreant by turning off all the applications that load automatically when Windows boots: Press Windows-R, type msconfig, and press Enter. Click the Startup tab, uncheck everything, click OK, and reboot your system. If that solves the problem, try rechecking programs on the Startup tab one at a time (reboot between each) until the problem recurs. When it does, you've found the source.

Scan your PC for viruses (which you should be doing regularly anyway), and update your hardware drivers as well.

If these actions don't remedy your PC's involuntary reboots, the cause is most likely an overheated system.

[riley140583]

managed to find the error message in admin tools but due to the unfortunate drunken occurence of snapping my wireless connector in two i have no internet access at home and cant find anything to do with it at microsoft help so here it is

error code 0000009c parameter 1 00000000 parameter 2 8054d370 parameter 3c4734000 parameter 4 00000136 category (102) event id 1003