Computer reboots on games

[Bill]

Hi, I've got a 'new' powerful PC which is running WinXP
Home edition with 128MB Video card, 1Gb Ram, 160Gb HD P4
3.2Ghz etc etc. It works fine when I'm NOT playing any
games on it. IE; surfing the net and general use of the
PC its fine. As soon as I go a play a game and about 2
mins into the game it decides to 'reboot' itself and I
don't know was wrong with it. Can anyone else work out
the problem? The only games I have at the moment
are 'Gangland','Simcity 4','CSI','Star Wars KOTOR'.

I now scared to buy anymore games cause none of them work
on the PC.

Please help.
Bill

 

[Paul Smith]

Hi, I've got a 'new' powerful PC which is running WinXP
Home edition with 128MB Video card, 1Gb Ram, 160Gb HD P4
3.2Ghz etc etc. It works fine when I'm NOT playing any
games on it. IE; surfing the net and general use of the
PC its fine. As soon as I go a play a game and about 2
mins into the game it decides to 'reboot' itself and I
don't know was wrong with it. Can anyone else work out
the problem? The only games I have at the moment
are 'Gangland','Simcity 4','CSI','Star Wars KOTOR'.

Firstly, I'd recommend swtichy of auto-reboot, that should bring up a stop
error instead which we can use to diagnose the problem.

1) Right click My Computer (either in the Start menu or on your desktop).
-2) Click Properites, this will bring up your system properties window
--3) Click the Advanced tab at the top
---4) Go to Start up and Recovery settings
----5) Uncheck Automatically restart.

Now when the thing crashes, it should bring up a stop error. Post back with
what it says and we can nail the problem down.

Generally something like this is caused by drivers, make sure you've got the
latest for your system.

Check Jimmy S' site here on how to update drivers etc:

http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/windows/ Windows XP Resource Site.
http://www.smirnov.demon.co.uk/
http://www.doom3portal.com/ A Doom 3 fansite.

*Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail*

 

[Bill]

Thanks for the tips. Please bare with me on this one.
I'll do as you suggested and get back to you in a day or
so. Sorry if this causes you a problem but I really want
to nail this issue.

Cheers,
Bill

 

[Bill]

Thanks for your time again. OK, I've done all that you
have requested and No error messages appeared when the
game decided to reboot itself. Ggrrrrr... Which is very
strange. I really don't know what else to do apart from
completely doing a re-image of the whole machine.

Regards,
Bill

 

[Bill]

Thanks for your time again. OK, I've done all that you
have requested and No error messages appeared when the
game decided to reboot itself. Ggrrrrr... Which is very
strange. I really don't know what else to do apart from
completely doing a re-image of the whole machine.

Regards,
Bill