Re: Computer reboots on games

From: Paul Smith (Paul_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:28:55 +0100

"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:553001c42d23$de6569f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> 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/
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