Blue screen, not!

[Jeremie Tessier]

Another Blue Screen-related problem but this time I guess it's a bit
different.

I'm just playing some games (Warcraft III, Dungeon Siege, 3d games as
exemple) on my computer (Pentium 4 with windows XP SP2) and I guessed
this wasn't a game-related problem since it happens with more than
one.

Then, for no apparent reason, my computer totally crashes (no keys do
anything, ctrl+alt+del neither) and my screen only shows a blue
screen, an empty one, without any message, it's not a BSOD, just a
blue background screen.

And then I have to reboot, did it to me quite a few times yesterday
and twice today, it's not the games, that I know.

Oh, and if it can help, I have a ATI RADEON X300 video card

Thanks for any kind of info in regards of this problem ^^

 

[PA20Pilot]

Hi,

Go for the easy stuff first. Are all your cooling fans clean and
running? Don't forget to check your power supply fan too.


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[Jeremie Tessier]

Well, I think they are clean, since this computer is brand new.

 

[Fuzzy]

I had the same problem with The Sims 2. If your cpu has hyperthreading, try
turning it off in the bios. Also, make sure your vidcard doesn't share an
IRQ with anything else. This solved all my mysterious reboot problems. YMMV.
HTH