Windows Question?

[zionzr2]

I'm having troble playing a couple of games.....I've had Enemy Territory on my system and have not played it for a long time and then tried playing it and it will spontaneously rebot the entire computer. tried unistalling and reinstalling and no luck....Ive had many successful sessions with the game b4 now.also does similar with the old Warcraft 2 game.any tips would be greatly appreciated!!!my system breakdown:1.4Ghz AMD Thunderbird3 - 60 GB harddrives each nowhere near full.Win XP PRO512 RAM

[Kari]

A spontaneous reboot sounds like a spontaneous loss of power...maybe less related to the game itself than the fact that the computer is doing something particularly resource-taxing. Does it ever do that when you aren't playing a game, or does playing the game just make it happen more often?

[glassman]

sounds like a video card or sound issue check for driver updates or if you updated roll back a version. what video card do you? have also check direct x version

[ragingfish]

I'd side with the video card theory...Either that, or maybe one of your fans crapped out and the high use of system resources is causing it to overheat?We had tha problem with one of our POS terminals at work...kept randomly rebooting...it was because a fan crapped out...

[millster]

Sounds to me like a BSOD (blue screen of death) issue. Possibly caused by a faulty hardware driver. Can also be related to spyware, virus, failing hardware, etc.When Windows is installed, it defaults to rebooting when it encounters a critical error rather than displaying it. This can be nice when it's a one-time thing and the system just needs to be restarted. However, when it's a repeat performance, it's a pain.Try changing that setting and see if the next time it crashes it displays a message. It will normally give you some indication of what module within Windows is failing.1) Right click on 'My Computer'.2) Click 'Properties'.3) Click the 'Advanced Tab'.4) In the 'Startup and Recovery' section, click 'Settings'.5) In the 'System Failure' section, remove the check from 'Automatically Restart'.6) Click OK to close the 'Startup and Recovery' screen.7) Click OK to close the 'Properties' screen.Hopefully this will allow the error to popup if the problem continues. That information will be helpful in troubleshooting the problem.

[gpk99]

ET had a patch upgrade to it recently also....and if you have the newer drivers installed.........it could be dumping it for that reason...so make sure you get the ET patch......and make sure your vid drivers are set up all ok .....

[zionzr2]

not sure what it was but i seem to have it working again....thanks for all the tips...

[zionzr2]

can anyone recomend a good video card these days with out spending too much money...My ATI 9500 pro seems to be dying other games are now having issuses the fan on the video card is making noise like its constatly changing speeds but cant obseve this visually ....

[redlava]

I have a 256MB Asylum GeForce FX 5200. It works well for the most part. I think it cost me like $120 dollars two years ago. I am sure they have upgraded graphics cards a lot since I bought mine, but the one thing that is almost always true, the more you pay the better quality you get. Just depends on how "cheap" you want to go.

[zionzr2]

the oter thing my problem may be is power supply... dobt so much with my exsisting but might be with a new card...

[zionzr2]

Fixed the problem Turns out it was an HP program that was responsible for the reboots and stalling of my games....I think it was the Hp updater program the was part of the digital camera software...since i deactivated the software no problems....