Computer restarts while playing Sims--HELP!
bluecatvon:
Really?! How screwed am I...
My dad's trying to get hold of a computer technician for me while in the meantime I've been searching on the net for information. I read up bout power supply. Maybe it's ailing...seriously hope a computer technician can sort these out...During the time I first posted this message my computer has restarted or freeze itself 8 times :)
Joy!
J. M. Pescado:
Random restarts for absolutely no reason at all could be anything from driver issues to hardware failure. Try disabling "autorestart" in your system configuration settings to see if you get anything interesting in a BSOD.
bluecatvon:
i've searched, but still can't find where to disable "autostart" ...hehe...
the 2nd time I formatted my computer, it was because I keep getting win32k.sys or atiqua3.dll (something, forgot the correct spelling) error. i can't update my driver back then. and now too. haha.
Theo:
Quote from: bluecatvon on 2006 December 14, 09:08:22
During the time I first posted this message my computer has restarted or freeze itself 8 times :)
Joy!
Maybe it's a long shot, but can you hear anything when the system freezes, like a hard drive spinning out, or a sudden click in a hard drive?
J. M. Pescado:
I've killed a lot of hard drives, and hard drives dying generally freezes the system, rather than rebooting. If the system can reboot over and over, then the drive is functioning normally. A hard drive hiccup would freeze the system while it tries to read the drive, possibly indefinitely, and the drive would still hang on reboot. This sounds more like heat/drivers/power, likely drivers, if the computer already has had a past history of bad driver installation.
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