what to do when the computer resets while playing a game

generic question's gonna get a generic answer: if it's ONLY when playing a game, you can figure that it's an issue with your graphics card. either your drivers are poorly installed and it's causing the OS to crunch and reboot, or your hardware is overheating and causing the PC to lock and reboot. if you download Prime95, you can use it to stress the CPU and RAM. If that runs fine, you know your problem is specific to graphics. If it reboots when running Prime95, the problem could be with the CPU or RAM. Right after the PC reboots, go into the BIOS and check system temperatures (usually under a heading like "System Health" or "Hardware Monitoring" or something). different CPUs have different temperature thresholds, though, so without knowing the chip i can't suggest what a safe range is, vs. what would be too hot. best guess without knowing more = graphics overheating.

Another guess might be a power supply that can't handle 3D graphics; 3D graphics require more power than 2D. Without system specs, we're just guessing. Skip