Pc restarting

[Xenophon]

Pls help, Everytime I try to play a game my pc just restarts by itself, what can it be?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Overheating sounds to be the culprit.

What happens when you play games when the system's cold (switched off for an hour or so)? A real bugger, but this is a quick way to check for overheating.

 

[nocilah]

Pls help, Everytime I try to play a game my pc just restarts by itself, what can it be?

What is the game called? If it happens when you intiate the game then it sounds like a hardware / conflict of sort. best thing is go to the game site and check out any patches available for the game.

google.groups is also a great tool to find answers for these kinds of problems.

Sometimes it's a simple switch in the start up command of the game that can fix it...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Hope you find whatever gives problems...

 

[Random717]

is it just one game or more?
could be a messed up graphics card driver so try reinstall those, or your graphics card could be faulty??

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Id also probably sat the graphics card has a fault or confilt or the drivers are messed up. Ive had a bad graphics card before and it often did this sort of thing.

It could be heating, but when you say every time you try to play a game, do you mean as soon as you start the game up or just after a while of playing the game?

 

[Silent_Bob]

some one at our last lan had that prob, update your drivers, that fixed our prob

 

[angotull]

Bad CPU

Hey I had a bad AMD once that worked fine in everything except games. Changed it out and sweetness was me.

 

[vampirotoothus]

Could be drivers...install DirectX 9.0c. Heating could be the problem as well, but not to sure.

Try the following:

Start --> Run --> dxdiag click OK
Click the display tab and do the tests on that...

 

[flarkit]

I usually assume the following:

- CPU
- RAM
- PSU (good candidate, if there's been a recent upgrade)
- drivers (this tends to cause the game to exit suddenly, rather than reboot the PC)
- heat (turn on the temperature alert in your BIOS and install a temperature app like Motherboard Monitor)

 

[Xenophon]

it is all games. I start playing and then all of a sudden it just cuts out. It is driving me crazy coz I will be on the web playing <blush> golf and then it would just cut out. No problem for me, but My rating is going DOWN.

Edit: And it is with all games I play. Internet is fine no problems.

 

[Claymore]

Does it hang, crash or restart? If it restarts, take a look in the XP system event logs, and there may be an error logged there, and you can look that up to get an idea of the cause.

 

[ghalied]

check your temps

 

[Xenophon]

Hi,

So far no luck. It restarts when playing games & when running System Mechanic. I have now narrowed it down to my HDD. What program can I use to check my HDD and to move/fix bad sectors. I tried CHKDSK, but it gets to 85% on step 5 of 5, then restarts

PC Restarts even if it is cold.


PS. I found out why it was running so slow. /me ponders : could it be the 1408 viruses that I found or might it have been the 252 ad/spyware

 

[supersunbird]

Well, it could be a weak power supply unit.

Ouch on # of viruses!

I have a client, I'm reinstalling his system on sunday, just the 2 adware and 1 virus he has is cause enough, those buggers are biting in there like a ratel and nothings gonna remove them.

 

[Xenophon]

Well, it could be a weak power supply unit..

hey SSB, but what if the pc's been running on this PSU the whole time with no problems and then just BAM, it started this restarting?

 

[Random717]

try get hirens bootdisk, its got lots of drive diagnostics software on it.. saved my ass way too many times

 

[supersunbird]

Power supplies can have capacitors going bad, they can be affected by powerline issues, many things, many things...

 

[Xenophon]

Ok, reformatted.

Is there a program I can check the temperature with and what should it be?

Secondly, how the hell do I check out the PSU?

Bloody thing still keeps restarting and it is driving me crazy.

Got Hiren's disk, but could get no problems on HDD

 

[killadoob]

how many stick of ram do you have?

if you have 2 remove one try it, if it still does it put the other one in

have a look in the bios and check your cpu temp

other than that take it back to where you bought it from and get them to test everything

could be faulty m/b