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Technical Support / Computer restarts
« on: May 03, 2006, 06:08:42 PM »
This issue might be virus related. But I just wanted to know if anyone has a good recommendation for where I should be looking for what this is coming from.
When I play certain games on my computer, it seems to randomly reboot itself. Here are the games I've noticed this on:
Guild Wars (When I exit the program, it restarts)
Emulators (ZSNES, NESticle, Gens) also when I exit
--These two are intermittent--
Final Fantasy 7 PC edition (When I enter the Chocobo races)
--This one ALWAYS happens on just that part, probably something to do with the game CD I have--
It doesn't happen with NWN, ePSXe emulator, Warcraft 3, or any of the Diablo games.
I've tried reinstalling above mentioned games many times before only to get the same results. I've made sure my video and sound drivers were updated with stable drivers. I can't find anything in the Event Log showing this, but it does come up with "An Error Report has been generated" after the computer fully reboots.
One other instance when my computer reboots is if I turn it on (out of hibernation) and don't do anything for the first minute it's on, it automatically reboots. (Don't know if this is supposed to happen, but it does generate a report like any other time it reboots)
If a list of processes from my task manager helps, I can provide that to anyone that thinks they might have an answer other than to reload the OS. If it comes to that, I will go that path though.
I appreciate any help, and let me know if you need more information from me.
When I play certain games on my computer, it seems to randomly reboot itself. Here are the games I've noticed this on:
Guild Wars (When I exit the program, it restarts)
Emulators (ZSNES, NESticle, Gens) also when I exit
--These two are intermittent--
Final Fantasy 7 PC edition (When I enter the Chocobo races)
--This one ALWAYS happens on just that part, probably something to do with the game CD I have--
It doesn't happen with NWN, ePSXe emulator, Warcraft 3, or any of the Diablo games.
I've tried reinstalling above mentioned games many times before only to get the same results. I've made sure my video and sound drivers were updated with stable drivers. I can't find anything in the Event Log showing this, but it does come up with "An Error Report has been generated" after the computer fully reboots.
One other instance when my computer reboots is if I turn it on (out of hibernation) and don't do anything for the first minute it's on, it automatically reboots. (Don't know if this is supposed to happen, but it does generate a report like any other time it reboots)
If a list of processes from my task manager helps, I can provide that to anyone that thinks they might have an answer other than to reload the OS. If it comes to that, I will go that path though.
I appreciate any help, and let me know if you need more information from me.