Random Restarts

[Maxil223]

A64 3200+ Newcastle
Gigabyte KN8S
512mb Corsair VS
GeForceFX5500OC128

I hardly ever go to websites or download things on my computer, and today
while I was playing Star Wars Galaxies, my computer restarted. I figured it was a windows update so I went to the website and downloaded everything so there
were no updates left. Then about an hour later it happened again while playing. It then happened every 15 minutes and so far its been about 6 times. I checked the CPU, MB, and system temp all times and its always at 30c. I scanned for viruses and all it could find is cookies. Ive been playing that game on my computer for over 3 months now. Whats the problem?

 

[nick1985]

what kind of power supply do you have

 

[JBDan]

Any error message? Blue screenies?

 

[Maxil223]

No blue screens whatsoever, no error message, i have a 350 watt power supply, and its worked for 2 months

 

[nick1985]

what brand is the power supply

 

[Maxil223]

it has nothing to do with the power supply, i realize that the restarts always come when the game finishes loading and appears. I think its a graphics overload or something

 

[nick1985]

uhhhh...that very well could be the power supply.

for the third time, what brand is it?

 

[Viiper]

Sometimes in certain games i get restarts too, must be a bug in the game

 

[digiram]

It could very well be the ram. Run a test on it with memtest, and make sure you get no errors. I would definitely not rule out the possibility of having a bad PSU as well. Buy another psu, decent name brand one or just something that's pretty heavy, and at least give that a shot.

 

[leedog2007]

My brother had the same problem. He bought a Antec true power 480 and that corrected the problem. He was running the PSU that came with the case. Smartpower I think was the crap brand that came with the case

 

[Viiper]

But how come it only happens in one game with me and i have a cheap psu?

 

[de8212]

Take a look at this thread. I am in the middle of troubleshooting why my machine has random restarts. Mine has doen it about 1 every 1 - 2 weeks since early January.

 

[leedog2007]

Just tellin you how my brother fixed his problem. Maxil223 might be in the same boat.