Computers Restart

2006-08-03 17:32:11

#1

Xblade-3o5-: Oi, Suzy!; +113|7055|Florida, United States

Hello, I have been experiencing some problems with my brothers computer, it happen long time ago until yesterday. We were playing BF2 and all of the sudden the computer restarts. So we booted it up agian, but now it restarts when checking virtual memory (at the beggining when you boot it). Any help would be nice.

Thanks in advance,

-Xblade

Last edited by Xblade-3o5- (2006-08-03 17:37:26)

2006-08-03 19:02:05

#2

BigglesPiP: Whirlybird Guy; +20|6850|Windermere, GB

Several possible causes:

Overheating -> Clear out the dust bunnys and reseat the coolers.

Insufficiant Power Supply -> New PSU.

Some software mucking it up -> Lord knows.

2006-08-03 19:04:22

#3

Aust1mh: Member; +23|6870|Sydney, Australia

transfer your bros files to ur pc,

format and start again... best way....

2006-08-03 19:25:51

#4

Darkfire: Helping you help yourself; +34|6780| Texas

Another idea would be just to swap out parts(RAM, PSU,etc) and see if any of that makes a difference. I had a problem similar to that and it turned out that my one stick of ram was experiencing connection problems and swaping it out did the trick.

Best of luck with solving this problem

Darkfire

2006-08-03 19:29:07

#5

SargeJp: Member; +87|7051|Canada

update video drivers.

2006-08-03 19:32:01

#6

arson: Member; +99|6938|New York

The best advice I can give you is to read this guide found here:
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

This is a great free guide that can help you with your comp.

2006-08-03 19:50:15

#7

Skruples: Mod Incarnate; +234|7002

Turn automatic restarting off. This will at least give you an error message when whatever is happening happens.

To do this:
open the control panel.
open the system utility.
go to the 'advanced' tab
go to 'startup and recovery' and click settings
Uncheck automatic restart

You should now get a bluescreen error when otherwise the computer would just restart. The bluescreen should tell you what driver or device is causing the error.

2006-08-03 20:41:46

#8

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6899|Seattle

I think he said it crashes during the CRC check now. That's leads me to think it's bad RAM or a bad power supply.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2006-08-03 21:39:18

#9

Skruples: Mod Incarnate; +234|7002

Ah, disregard my post then.

2006-08-04 05:20:36

#10

xtrem3_4c3_4: Member; +9|6848

that happened to me i got new power box 2 new fans and new windows!!!

2006-08-04 06:03:33

#11

Ghost_of_Viking: Member; +11|6783

Skruples wrote:
Turn automatic restarting off. This will at least give you an error message when whatever is happening happens.

big no, if it's a heat problem you might end up burning up your cpu

edit remove ram modules, clean contacts with a rubber blow out dust, might I also do the trick. Or find out a website of mainboard fabricant how to do a CMOS reset, usualy shortcurcuting(sp?) two pins

Last edited by Ghost_of_Viking (2006-08-04 06:09:33)

2006-08-04 06:17:11

#12

Snipedya14: Dont tread on me; +77|6997|Mountains of West Virginia

Ghost_of_Viking wrote:
edit remove ram modules,

Yea, two different speed RAM sticks can bring a world of random reboots and BSODs.

But the main thing to look at is, what have you changed (assuming this a new problem) in the last week or so? Added new Hardware, software?

If you have changed nothing major, id look to a dying PSU, or overheating (especially if you do not have AC)

2006-08-04 07:03:59

#13

Ghost_of_Viking: Member; +11|6783

if I get him right his pc wont boot at all, so software checking wont work, but if you got 2 ram modules try removing one, or taking one from an other pc WARNING watch that the types are 100% compatible as you might fry the ram modules.
Might be defective ram

2006-08-04 07:13:13

#14

Snipedya14: Dont tread on me; +77|6997|Mountains of West Virginia

Shows how well I read the problem. Yea omit software changes from my last post.

2006-08-04 11:00:48

#15

Ghost_of_Viking: Member; +11|6783

Xblade-3o5- wrote:
Hello, I have been experiencing some problems with my brothers computer, it happen long time ago until yesterday. We were playing BF2 and all of the sudden the computer restarts. So we booted it up agian, but now it restarts when checking virtual memory (at the beggining when you boot it). Any help would be nice.

Thanks in advance,

-Xblade

does the computer make any beep sounds before it reboots?

2006-08-04 21:52:53

#16

Xblade-3o5-: Oi, Suzy!; +113|7055|Florida, United States

srry i didnt respond earlier... im opening the case up to rmove RAM modules and cleaning them, but i dont remember if the computer made a noise when restarting...

I am also thinking it might be GPU because now when i turn on the computer the monitor doesn't show a visual

thnx for all the replies

-Xblade

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