Hello;
The computer that I use was bought second hand, and i have been using it myself for over 2 years. It always ran great until about 4 months ago. While I am playing wow the system reboots itself, no blue screen, no warning at all, it is as if someone pulled the power cord out of the wall. Then soon after it goes off the system begin restarting.
I am not sure if this is related but:
I purchased a LED monitor 24", up from the older 19" flat that I had before. I set the 24" resolution to the highest that I could, way above the native and the crashes began when playing wow. The crashes seemed to be random sometimes causing the system to reboot at the game start-up or anytime up to 1 hour. Lowering the resolution to native decreased the frequency of the reboot/crash. I went back to the 19" monitor with the second highest resolution as I used to play before getting the 24". It all went great for about a month, then the crashes began happening, with more and more frequency.
I have used up to 5 different drivers for the video card and did a virus scan (avast), neither influenced the crash frequency. I have been monitoring the temperature and did a RAM check but those are ok.
Someone suggested that my PSU might be failing, but I have no way to double check that. I live almost 3 hours away from an urban center and would like to ensure that I am not wasting money to replace on something that isn't broken. I have attempted to get help on the wow site but I didn't get a resolution.
On the windows viewer there are entries for "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." and "The previous system shutdown at 10:04:50 PM on 28/10/2013 was unexpected."
PSU: Z350-08ATA (suports 350w, sys requires less than 300w) http://global.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?auno=2284
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to provide all the details.
The computer that I use was bought second hand, and i have been using it myself for over 2 years. It always ran great until about 4 months ago. While I am playing wow the system reboots itself, no blue screen, no warning at all, it is as if someone pulled the power cord out of the wall. Then soon after it goes off the system begin restarting.
I am not sure if this is related but:
I purchased a LED monitor 24", up from the older 19" flat that I had before. I set the 24" resolution to the highest that I could, way above the native and the crashes began when playing wow. The crashes seemed to be random sometimes causing the system to reboot at the game start-up or anytime up to 1 hour. Lowering the resolution to native decreased the frequency of the reboot/crash. I went back to the 19" monitor with the second highest resolution as I used to play before getting the 24". It all went great for about a month, then the crashes began happening, with more and more frequency.
I have used up to 5 different drivers for the video card and did a virus scan (avast), neither influenced the crash frequency. I have been monitoring the temperature and did a RAM check but those are ok.
Someone suggested that my PSU might be failing, but I have no way to double check that. I live almost 3 hours away from an urban center and would like to ensure that I am not wasting money to replace on something that isn't broken. I have attempted to get help on the wow site but I didn't get a resolution.
On the windows viewer there are entries for "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." and "The previous system shutdown at 10:04:50 PM on 28/10/2013 was unexpected."
PSU: Z350-08ATA (suports 350w, sys requires less than 300w) http://global.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?auno=2284
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to provide all the details.
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