First, my specs: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 512 ram 120 gb ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128mb with catalyst 4.8 a MSI KT6 Delta motherboard Windows 2000 Service pack 4 Directx 9.0b When playing ANY game ranging from Doom 3, Thief: deadly shadows, to resident evil 2 (i am running resiednt evil under windows 95 compatibility mode) my computer will randomdly reboot after 10 to 30 minutes. I have tried many different video settings with no result. I have also formatted the hard drive also with no result. Finally, I have tried using different catalyst versions and nothing. I didnt have this probelm before, i dont know what could i have done to make this happen... Oh, and for some reason, Far Cry will run without problems. Any suggestion, ANYTHING :P, is welcome thanks for any help...

"I didnt have this probelm before" Before what? what did you change?

I just installed some software... I tried uninstalling any software i remember i installed before the problem appeared but it fixed nothing... I dont think that has anything to do with my problem as i have formatted the hard drive and the problem persists.

Check your temps. Sounds like you might be overheating.

I'm having this same problem. Except, its only about 30 secs into gameplay, reboots. When I set XP to not auto-reboot, so that it will give me the blue screen. The blue screen is COMPLETELY blank. I'm sad, and in dire need of a solution.

i think its fixed now... i ran the windows autoupdate utility just for the heck of it and, after installing some updates and rebooting, i opened thief: deadly shadows to see if something changed. To my surprise, the game doesnt crash anymore! :) I hope this helps you Brutimus...

i just did a little testing. I got a temp monitor called 'speedfan'. there is a label called 'temp2' and i dont know for SURE that is the gpu temp, but i'm making a rough guess here. but it has a temp chart over time..and it shows 'temp2' hovering around 35C. then i run dxdiag, just to put a little load on the gpu, and then once that test completed...i looked at the chart, and it showed that the temp spiked up to 45C, then came back down after the dxdiag test. Should this tell me that my gpu fan is dieing..? Please lemme know.