Big Big PC Problem

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Major computer problem, this has happened before, however it stopped when I reinstalled the computer’s operating system Windows XP Home.

Since that I have had the odd crash, however what happens is the computer just completely restarts as if I have pressed the reset button. There is no word of warning it will just restart, it always boots back up succesfully. I have indeed unchecked the auto restart button on the advanced system page of XP so that any error message could be noted but the comoputer seems to bypass the blue screen and just restart

I have recently fitted an ethernet card and was hoping that would solve the problem of crashes as I thought that my usb cable modem driver was to blame, indeed the computer did behave itself up until Friday when its crashing regularly

The Computer Specification is as follows

512 Mb Ra
AMD Athlon 2.06 GhZ processer (XP 2600
40 Gb H
Nvidia Geforce 128mb Ram Graphics Car

The computer will crash and restart when either playing a DVD and running Championship Manager or when just running CM.

Any help at all would be greatly received

P.S. For instance when the computer is just left on the desktop with Messenger and the Broadband Internet running its fine, however add the above programs and it wont have it. Have also updated drivers.

Regards

Steven Dresse

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M

Malke

Steve said:
Major computer problem, this has happened before, however it stopped
when I reinstalled the computer?s operating system Windows XP Home.

Since that I have had the odd crash, however what happens is the
computer just completely restarts as if I have pressed the reset
button. There is no word of warning it will just restart, it always
boots back up succesfully. I have indeed unchecked the auto restart
button on the advanced system page of XP so that any error message
could be noted but the comoputer seems to bypass the blue screen and
just restart.

I have recently fitted an ethernet card and was hoping that would
solve the problem of crashes as I thought that my usb cable modem
driver was to blame, indeed the computer did behave itself up until
Friday when its crashing regularly.

The Computer Specification is as follows:

512 Mb Ram
AMD Athlon 2.06 GhZ processer (XP 2600)
40 Gb HD
Nvidia Geforce 128mb Ram Graphics Card

The computer will crash and restart when either playing a DVD and
running Championship Manager or when just running CM.

Random crashing, freezing, rebooting, usually is because of failing
hardware, most particularly bad RAM and/or overheating. Here are
generic troubleshooting steps for hardware:

1) open the computer and run it open, cleaning out all dust bunnies and
observing all fans (overheating will cause system freezing); 2) test
the RAM - I like Memtest86 from www.memtest86.com - let the test run
for an extended (like overnight) period of time - unless errors are
seen immediately; 3) test the hard drive with a diagnostic utility from
the mftr.; 4) the power supply may be going bad or be inadequate for
the devices you have in the system; 5) test the motherboard with
something like TuffTest from www.tufftest.com. Testing hardware
failures often involves swapping out suspected parts with known-good
parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are uncomfortable
opening your computer, take the machine to a good local computer repair
shop (not a CompUSA or Best Buy type of store).

Malke
 

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