Crashes after playing games?

bluetrooth

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Sep 19, 2013
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I have a Sony Vaio which runs most games well at normal/low settings, and I use a cooling pad to make sure nothing overheats.

Usually I can play any game about as long as I want to without any problems or crashes, however, with most games it occurs that about 5 minutes 'after' I exit the game and am just browsing or doing something else, my computer crashes and gives me the blue screen.

It's only after playing heavy video games, but never occurs during gameplay, always a few minutes after I quit.

Anyone know what causes this problem? It doesn't happen if I reboot right after gaming, but it's a little bothersome to do that every time.


Some specs in case that helps:
Graphics card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU, M 480 @ 2.67GHz (4CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 4GB RAM
DirectX 11
 

bluetrooth

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Sep 19, 2013
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I haven't been able to get my computer to crash recently, it seems to happen quite randomly; can't really recall what it said before. Will try to check next time.

My only (uneducated) guess would be something like that my laptop does overheat, but only suffers from it once I turn the game off and my fan maybe starts spinning slower?