Was watching an ISO in VLC player and windows restarted

[SoundTheSurrender]

I was watching a movie and it stuttered and slowed down. Next thing that happened was the laptop restarted. I checked the logs and nothing came up.

I'm using a Macbook 1.83GHz Core2Duo Macbook with Windows XP 32bit.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I assume you are looking for advice on what happened or how to prevent this from happening again. Without more info it's pretty hard to even begin, but it sounds like your CPU overheated (HD video can do that).

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
I assume you are looking for advice on what happened or how to prevent this from happening again. Without more info it's pretty hard to even begin, but it sounds like your CPU overheated (HD video can do that).

The likelihood of it being overheating is relatively low.

Since Windows basically has no thermal management available on a Mac, it simply runs the fans at full tilt all the time. My MacBook runs HD video back just fine. And he was playing back a ripped DVD it sounds like, so not HD.

 

[degibson]

Could be lots of things actually.
Could be the power supply -- if it undervolted, it could have triggered a restart. It happens sometimes when video cards are running full blast at the same time as processors. Look into a power supply monitor.
Could be memory errors -- run memcheck.
Overheating is a possibility. There's plenty of part variance out there -- just because one macbook stays inside operating range doesn't mean that all do.
Check your system logs and see if anything was logged before the reboot.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
I assume you are looking for advice on what happened or how to prevent this from happening again. Without more info it's pretty hard to even begin, but it sounds like your CPU overheated (HD video can do that).

The likelihood of it being overheating is relatively low.

Since Windows basically has no thermal management available on a Mac, it simply runs the fans at full tilt all the time. My MacBook runs HD video back just fine. And he was playing back a ripped DVD it sounds like, so not HD.

It doesn't matter if Windows has thermal management or not, as long as the BIOS does (and most, if not all, do these days).

Regardless, as I said earlier, more info is needed.

 

[GoPackGo]

Sure it wasn't windows update?

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
I assume you are looking for advice on what happened or how to prevent this from happening again. Without more info it's pretty hard to even begin, but it sounds like your CPU overheated (HD video can do that).

The likelihood of it being overheating is relatively low.

Since Windows basically has no thermal management available on a Mac, it simply runs the fans at full tilt all the time. My MacBook runs HD video back just fine. And he was playing back a ripped DVD it sounds like, so not HD.

It doesn't matter if Windows has thermal management or not, as long as the BIOS does (and most, if not all, do these days).

Regardless, as I said earlier, more info is needed.

But if Windows doesn't have any, then it will run the fans at full blast as a safety precaution, which is what happens. I have played plenty of games on my Core Duo (runs hotter) MacBook in Windows and never had it shut off from overheating.

And honestly, I am not sure what is in the EFI of the MacBook (they do not use a BIOS) with regards to temps. BUt since mine has gone above 73C before in OS X while ripping a movie, I would suspect that it is quite high. Mobile chips, in my experience have a higher thermal tolerance.