Especially in Battlefield 2142 and World of Warcraft, my computer reboots itself or locks up after about 10 minutes of game play. I've downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers, and changed out the power supply but it's still doing it. It only does it during gaming, it's fine otherwise. Any advice I can get on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
OS: XP Pro X64
Mobo: (Socket AM2)ABIT KN9 SLI nForce 570 SLI MCP Chipset
DDR2/800 SATA-II RAID 16x PCI-Express MBoard w/GbLAN,USB2.0,&7.1Audio
CPU: (Socket AM2) AMD Athlon(TM)64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
HD: Single Hard Drive (320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Memory: 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel
Video: 2 Nvidia Geforce 7950 GT 512mb 16X cards in SLI
Power supply: 800 W
2007-01-09 11:32:59 · 11 answers · asked by Karma 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I don't believe it's an overheating issue. The case has 9 fans and heatsinks. Temp reads a nice cool 54 degrees on a consistent basis.
I'd also like to mention that I just got this 3 days ago. There is very little on the drives yet, so memory can't possibly be the issue. Thanks though.
2007-01-09 11:40:21 · update #1
2 gigs of ddr ram and these people are telling you it's that you dont have enough memory....oO I assure you you have plenty of memory. I would agree that you might want to have your fan's and heatsink's checked. Other than that it's a perplexing issue. Mabey have it looked at by a repair shop. Good luck!!
2007-01-09 11:46:33 · answer #1 · answered by The Angry Dutchman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Teyana, the previous answers could all be correct with the dirty cabinet or low memory, but I suspect there's a problem with the video driver. Check to make sure you have the latest driver installed.
Good Luck
2007-01-09 11:45:34 · answer #2 · answered by snvffy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is wrong is you have dust on your inner computer. When you're playing a game that makes your computer work a lot and causes the computer to get hot, the fan kicks in and cools down the computer. When there is dust on the computer, it insulates this dust and makes it so hot the fan can't even cool it down, so the computer shuts down so it won't catch on fire.
Just clean the dust out and it should be fine.
Why did I get two thumbs down, that's probably the problem.
2007-01-09 11:35:22 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Princess♥ 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it could be over heating
make sure that the fan on the CPU is attached correctly... and you should also purchase some more fans to put in the inside back and front of the case to keep the airflow moving
nice computer by the way
2007-01-09 11:35:48 · answer #4 · answered by willy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It either have a virus, or the memory is low. Mine usually shuts off after a period of hours, the computer have no more memories after a while, so you won't be able to open up any windows...
2007-01-09 11:36:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
your computer should handle anything you throw at it(even if it had spyware) iwould suspect over heating, processor, chipset or maybe bad mem chip, did you down load the amd dualcore patch andin the device mgr did you click the comp icon at the top and set it for multi-processors
2016-05-23 01:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
one of two things
ur memory is not able to complete the process
or there is a virus in this game
2007-01-09 11:37:51 · answer #7 · answered by micho 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
u might have a virus try scaning ur computer for one, a free virus scanner can be foun www.avgfree.com
2007-01-09 11:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by gg d 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
memory dump
2007-01-09 11:35:32 · answer #9 · answered by Greed...Is Good 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because it takes up to much space
2007-01-09 11:36:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋