Pc restarting

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.
 
Xenophon said:
Pls help, Everytime I try to play a game my pc just restarts by itself, what can it be?
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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...
 
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??
 
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?
 
Bad CPU

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

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 :eek: or might it have been the 252 ad/spyware:eek: :eek:
 
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.
 
try get hirens bootdisk, its got lots of drive diagnostics software on it.. saved my ass way too many times :D
 
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
 
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
 
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