Random Restarts dunring games

[Dulrough]

Hello all, I seem to be having trouble with my computer, it likes to reboot when ever I play a game, start a game, ect. Ive just formated it, installed fresh drivers, that did nothing.

So, I have no idea what is wrong with it.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Hazar]

have you looked into overheating?

 

[Dulrough]

No, but since I just had a new CPU fan installed I dont think thats it, what can I do to test that more?

 

[StardogChampion]

This is what happened to my old computer. It started after I had installed a new graphics card. I tried a new fan but that didn't help, then I bought a new power supply, but didn't get much chance to try it out since I use the newer comp mostly now.

Check drivers, overheating and your power supply.

 

[furiousV]

maybe the new hs/f isnt seated properly, thermal compound etc.

i had random restarts with hl2, but i increased the Qfan ratio (an asus thing i guess) that sorted it

 

[Dulrough]

How do I test for overheating?

 

[furiousV]

check your mobo CD for some temperature monitoring program, or get the famous MBM5 or whatever its called, www.majorgeeks.com im tired

 

[Fil]

It's most likely gonna be the Power Supply or the memory has gone bad. What are your system specs and what voltages is your Power Supp,y giving out on the 12V, 5V, 3.3V?

 

[Dulrough]

System specs:
1.3 AMD
512 RAM
Nvidia Gforce4 TI4200
Asus mobo

Ok not too sure what this means, but this is what the bios shows about power

VCORE voltage: 1.76V
+3.3 voltage: 3.28V
+5V voltage: 4.91V
+12V voltage : 12.4V

there are some - ones that have an ignore option on them.

 

[furiousV]

look for the Asus Probe on the motherboard CD.
tells temperature, fan speed, voltages and other system info
also allows u to set alarms so if temp or voltage go out a certai nrange ul be notified

 

[Dulrough]

OK I intalled Asus probe, and this time when it crashed a blue screen flashed up, there was not time to read it, but it looked really important.

How can I set up the probe to record, so I can see if its overheating or not?

 

[furiousV]

on the monitoring tab, go to History and click Start recording. what probably happened to you was that the temperature went too high and the probe interupted your game to tell you and then things messed up.

 

[Dulrough]

OK Ive got it to record history on the temperature.
The temp goes up 1 or 2 degrees when the game is running, then it crashes.

 

[Dulrough]

What else could cause this aside from overheating?

 

[furiousV]

what are the temps?

another cause could be bad power supply as mentioned earlier by someone, or could be faulty memory, but then u probably would have found that one out by now.
just to be safe neway, www.memtest86.com

 

[Ti133700N]

I don't think its the vid card cuz GF4 do not produce alot of heat and they aren't power hungry. So... could it be heat... hum... did you installed the fan on the CPU yourself? Sometimes if it's a big heavy fan like the Zalman, if the fan is not correctly mounted (or if you often go to LAN parties with your comp) the fan can lose and the surface don't completly touch the CPU so it can overheat. But if you let professionnals install it then I wouldn't think it's the problem. The PSU could be faulty but your vid card and you cpu doesn't need alot of power so...

Did you installed new RAM recently, if the answer is yes then it's probably it. If not then tell us the case/cpu temperature. But im pretty sure its the RAM, i've never seen a RAM become faulty after some time but I've often seen bad RAM when you buy it, and when it's a bad RAM, it can power off the computer (especially when you play a 3D game or do a Render with a 3d modeling package).