Y does my pc restart when i play certain games

[hitmanz]

I have a p4 2.4ghz 512ddr ram and a geforce 4 64 mb, but when i try to play certain games ie cricket 2002 and max payne, my pc restarts...could my video card be screwed?? Somebody please help me!!

 

[rwalterk]

Can you give more details? Which motherboard/chipset? Which operating system? And how far into the game does it crash?

 

[hitmanz]

I have the P4 titan 533 845e motherboard and am running xp...it pretty much crashed after i select to start the game...it loads then b4 the picture shows, it restarts.

 

[Killrose]

You more than likely have a bad PSU. Check your voltages on each rail and see if they are low. Start applications and see if it drops. It should'nt really.

 

[spanky]

also u can check ur motherboard for bad capacitors. that happened to me recently. it only rebooted itself when i went to play CS... gradually got worse... and it began rebooting while i was just surfing the net.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Could also be bad RAM but I'd suggest the most likely is driver issues. Try other drivers, both nVidia and your card's manu. Try reinstalling DX8/9 and consider a fresh OS install.

 

[sep]

Are you overclocking the video card or system? What's the heat like in your PC? Did these ever run?

 

[hitmanz]

thanx all for ur help...it ended up being the driver...i got the latest one from the nvidia site and all is well...once again thanx heaps!!!

 

[cmdrdredd]

my system does that on occation. I attribute it to the way XP caches my HD or buffers something into memory etc. I dislike XP's memory and HD handling. That may or may not be the cause of our problems, but who knows? It could be anything