Sudden reboots under 3d load

[Andrew Allen]

I had been experiencing an issue when playing any kind of
3d game under Win XP Home. After a number of avenues
trying to diagnose and solve the problem, it was
suggested to me to disable the option under System
Recovery that forces the OS to retsart on system failures.

I have a whole series of mini-dumps that were created
when the sys was still rebooting, during the running of
the following games I was testing with;

Star Wars Jedi Outcast II
Everquest

However, since disabling this spiteful auto reboot
feature I have had no reboots, but more importantly, no
minidumps.

My query is, what was responsible for the reboots in the
first place, if I am not getting memdumps since disabling
this?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Andrew,

Start/run eventvwr.msc and check the system and application logs for clues
as to what happened when the system dumped. If you want to try and decipher
the .dmp files, see this:

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging/default.asp

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone