Computer shuts off during games
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Name: Doug52392
Date: January 15, 2007 at 12:16:51 Pacific
Subject: Computer shuts off during gamesOS: Windows XP SP2CPU/Ram: Pentium 4/256mbModel/Manufacturer: Toshiba Satellite 1905 |
Comment: Hi, I have been having a strange problem with my computer lately. I recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled a game I have. However, when I start playing a game, the screen will go to a blue screen with text after about 15 minuts of gaming. The text screen will stay for not even a second, so I can not read what it says. My computer automaticly restarts and when Windows starts it says "Windows has recovered from a serious error" and comes up with the send error report screen. Here is some info from that page:
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BFA49E14 BCP3 : EF7475F8
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1
Affected Files:
C:\DOCUME~1\Douglas\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER03d8.dir00\Mini011507-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Douglas\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER03d8.dir00\sysdata.xml
This has happened before a few years ago, but just stopped. I suspect it has something to do with the computer tempeture or the tempeture of another element in the computer. How do I get these errors to stop?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Dark Sky
Date: January 15, 2007 at 18:00:47 Pacific
Subject: Computer shuts off during games |
Reply: (edit)can you describe the cooling system for your pc? describe how many fans running and the setup of the fan. and also describe the place that you put your pc (ie. small un air-conditioned room, big room etc). Cert Computing Level 3
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Response Number 2
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Name: heropsycho2177
Date: January 15, 2007 at 21:43:25 Pacific
Subject: Computer shuts off during games |
Reply: (edit)99% of the time, it's either inadequate power supply or overheating. "Enough, enough bowing down to disillusion!
Hats off & applause to rogues & evolution!
The ripple effect is too good not to mention.
If you’re not affected, you’re not paying attention!"
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Response Number 3
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Name: Doug52392
Date: January 17, 2007 at 10:41:09 Pacific
Subject: Computer shuts off during games |
Reply: (edit)I have a laptop, so I believe it has one fan on the bottom of the unit, and one on the left side. A few years ago when I got the computer, I noticed that the bottom was growing very hot when I was using it, so I now place the laptop on a wooden board. I typicly use the computer in my basement, which is an air-conditioned and
heated room.
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Response Number 4
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Name: roach
Date: January 18, 2007 at 22:46:09 Pacific
Subject: Computer shuts off during games |
Reply: (edit)Two possibilities come to mind. If the computer is several years old, the heatsink is probably clogged with dust. This is highly likely if your basement is dusty or if you have cats or dogs in your house. You'll have to remove the heatsink and clean it. If your laptop uses an ATI graphics chip there are rare cases of them crashing your system with European produced 3D games. The video drivers react with the game memory maps and ask for sections of memory that WIN2K and XP will not part with so it shuts down.
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