| Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228670] |
Mon, 30 October 2006 07:53  |
maschief
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In 3d multiplayer games my computer reboots itself, that's pretty much the problem...it has me utterly baffled. You all seem like your intelligent folk here, so I'm asking for help. What could the primary causes of this be? Thanks...
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228678 is a reply to message #228672] |
Mon, 30 October 2006 08:27  |
maschief
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Thanks for the reply guys...I'm going to redo my Arctic silver application again...
I'm running at 48-55C temperature on the chip. The thing is, I can go into a single player game thats even more demanding on the CPU than the multiplayer games I play, yet they don't reboot.
For instance I can run splinter cell: chaos theory and not reboot even though its running 2-3 degress hotter than World of Warcraft...
This computer is a 1.8 amd athlon with radeon 9600 256 and 1.2 gigs of ram. I'm using Speedfan to monitor my temperature...
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228685 is a reply to message #228672] |
Mon, 30 October 2006 09:45 |
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| Caveman wrote on Mon, 30 October 2006 08:58 |
And/Or Graphics card.
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Would be my guess, I am thinking that you have an ATI graphics card?? make sure you download and update the graphics drivers (believe ATI use some sort of program to manage graphics but can't remember the name of it)
EDIT: just spotted "Radeon" in your post, this is a pretty common problem with those cards and updating the drivers should sort it out - if not google is your friend, there are all sorts of support forums full of people having the same issues.
EDIT2: OK the program I was thinking about is called catalyst, you can check/update your graphics by visiting this site: http://support.ati.com which should resolve your issue.
Here is a post from someone experiencing the same problem: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic9816.html
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228760 is a reply to message #228670] |
Mon, 30 October 2006 16:51 |
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I had bad memory once and it made my computer do this, but you should try the other suggestions first. If you did something recently to your computer recently, than it most likely is the problem.
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228801 is a reply to message #228766] |
Tue, 31 October 2006 01:07 |
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Thanks for your help guys!
Heres the steps I've taken so far:
I've compleltely purged and reinstalled my ATI drivers/catalyst.
I've reinstalled directx.
I've reinstalled my sound drivers.
I've done a complete scan using nod32, antivir, adaware, spybot s&d and spyware doctor.
I've checked the ram, by replacing them with sticks I know work.
Next step will be checking the PSU....
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Theres something I would like to add to this, because it is what confuses me the most about the problem: This ONLY happens in 3D multiplayer games...I can play 2D online games all I want, or windows based games like poker or whatnot, and it never, ever has done this when just surfing/normal windows usage...or playing any games, 2D or 3D without an online componet. The best example of this is I can play battlefield 2 with the bots in offline mode, but if I try to play it online...I restart. This is possibly one of the oddest things I've ever seen...(and I've seen alot of weird computer problems).
Just had to get that out there...thanks again all!
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228839 is a reply to message #228678] |
Tue, 31 October 2006 08:42 |
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| maschief wrote on Mon, 30 October 2006 10:27 |
I'm running at 48-55C temperature on the chip. The thing is, I can go into a single player game thats even more demanding on the CPU than the multiplayer games I play, yet they don't reboot.
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48-55C seems kinda hot. The temperature on my CPU is always between 31-36C. You should check the airflow going into the computer, make sure everything is getting cooled off.
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228846 is a reply to message #228670] |
Tue, 31 October 2006 10:39 |
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I would be pretty confident that it is an issue with you GFX card and also that is a software issue bearing in mind the circumstances it happens (and assuming your pc doesn't restart under other circumstances), as I understand it the computer restarts as a response to the error (a setting somewhere that can be changed to simply display an error message).
Make sure that the XP auto detect/install of device drivers isn't automatically reinstalling innapropriate drivers after you remove them as this is something that has caused issues for other people and the ATI software doesn't like being installed over the top of something else.
Searching for issues on google relating to your graphics card will bring up numerous other people who have had similar problems, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a simple quick fix.
Good luck
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| Re: Serious problem with computer reseting...help please. [message #228852 is a reply to message #228670] |
Tue, 31 October 2006 11:56 |
Speedy059
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My computer was crashing everytime i would play renegade or load up a heavy program. This was because my bios was messed up, i had to flash the bios. I'm not saying this is the case for you, but it could be. Flashing the bios is pretty easy if you get the right tools. But just a thought, i'm not exactly sure what causes your computer to crash. But for me it was my bios not agreeing with my cpu.
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