Computer reboots when playing any game or movie?

Question

My computer reboots whenever I play a game or a movie.
The game can be anything, fullscreen or windowed, even old SNES games wil make it freeze & reboot.
Any movie, online or offline, will make it reboot.
Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, & VLC Player make it reboot.

I've disabled the "autoreboot on error" and all it gives is a "IRQL_IS_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error.

I've swapped out my ram chips & switched my video card with another one, & I get the same error.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you using a quite powerful graphics card on a PC w/ a small power supply? Try a bigger power supply. It seems that whenever you load up the graphics card, it overloads the +12V rail. The overload triggers a restart.

Answer 2

You have a bad driver on your computer. Go to your mfgr's website and download the appropriate ones. Think VIDEO driver. You should also realize that video resolution is a TRADE OFF between screen resolution/3d effects. Try bumping down one level at a time until stable, then bump up one one one side and the other down. A good game card will allow different profiles for different games.

You should have realistic expectations you cant run a game well with a card or pwer supply cooling that isnt good enough.

And watch out for poorly written games. Sims esp the pets pack is known to cause problems and wow is not well liked by many hardware geeks because they blame the game, not their cards.

Answer 3

Sound like a driver issue that playing games (sorry about the pun) with your system. What I would do is go into safe mode and uninstall your ipod touch software. Reboot and see if you can get to the main system again.