My Game is Bork, but I'm pretty sure it's not my fault.
Zazazu:
To stop the automatic restart, do this.
Start---Control Panel---System
Advanced Tab
Under "Startup and Recovery" click Settings
Last checkbox, uncheck "Automatically restart"
Solowren:
Could it be an overheating issue? I'm no expert, but I assume it's worth considering.
Gastfyr:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 30, 05:38:23
To stop the automatic restart, do this.
Start---Control Panel---System
Advanced Tab
Under "Startup and Recovery" click Settings
Last checkbox, uncheck "Automatically restart"
Ok, did that. Thanks for the step-by-step.
I hadn't heard of the nVidia crash bug. Apparently neither had my husband. :-\
I suppose it could be overheating. We had problems during the summer with both computers (my husband's and mine) overheating quite regularly (we don't have air conditioning in our apartment). Since it's been fall, though, I guess I wasn't thinking of that. Not sure how to solve it if it is; in the summer, we just turned the computers off during the hottest parts of the day and hoped for the best when we did use them.
vecki:
Open the cases up and blow out any dust. Dust caused some crashing problems I had a while back because it meant the fan couldn't work properly - not quite the same as yours though.
Here's info on the NVIDIA crash bug: http://www.modthesims2.com/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:nVidia_Blue_Screen_Issue
dragoness:
Generally if it's an overheating problem, you won't get the "application will now terminate" or the random vanishing of programs in use, only the BSOD or shutdown depending on your motherboard. (I live in the desert, I've been through overheating issues on a wide variety of systems at this point.) That suggests to me that either a) it's not overheating or b) you have multiple issues going on. But a can of air and a thorough dusting is an easy fix and a good thing to do anyway.
That said...
After dusting, things I would check: (Or get your husband to check, if you don't know how and he's the resident tech)
1. Make sure your memory and video card are seated properly. It's an easy fix, and if either of those are ever so vaguely out of their slot, it causes wierdness.
2. Make sure your video drivers are up to date.
3. Run a memory test to check for bad sectors. If part of your memory is bad, the system will run with no indication of a problem until it tries to write to that bit of memory, then BOOM, BSOD. Then it'll restart quite happily and leave you scratching your head.
It's weird, because BSOD/Shutdown/Reboot behavior is usually hardware based, but phantom disappearing applications? That I'm less sure of but it sounds more like software issues. Which if it was me and my luck, I would immediately say there's more than one problem here. ::)
Now to go check out this "nVidia crashing bug" thing, as I have an nVidia card and have never had an issue with crashes... hmm...
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