System Restarts. Help me!
DrBeast:
Are you sure your power supply is up to it? A 6600GT is much more power-consuming than a Radeon 9200. Does the system reboot only when you're playing Sims? Try another demanding game or application and see what happens.
Hegelian:
Spontaneous reboots are usually the result of an inadequate or failing power supply. The power supplies that come with off-the-shelf PCs are generally the cheapest, lowest-power units they can get away with, and rarely deliver their nominal rated power at normal operating temperatures.
You certainly can reinstall the ATi card. Simply uninstall the nVidia drivers, shut down, switch cards, and boot your computer. You can run with the default Windows VGA drivers, and then download the latest Catalyst drivers from ATi's Web site. The board-specific drivers are needed to get all the options and optimizations, but you can use any video card that will work in your computer without the manufacturer's drivers.
Simlover:
Spontaneous reboots can also be related to RAM conflicts/problems.
phyllis_p:
There are also some worms going around that cause spontaneous reboot. My sweetie had one called "backdoor haxdoor." If his computer was connected to the internet (cable modem, always connected), the computer would reboot spontaneously regardless of what else he was doing (like playing TS2). If he physically disconnected the cable, no reboots. Needless to say, once the trojan was dealt with he had no further problem (though to deal with it, we had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything -- it defeated all my attempts to remove it).
Giggy:
it strangely works with TS1 though :(
I think its either the power or the ram.
I'll go and try the power first before fiddling with the ram
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