PC Reboots playing games

[bill]

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Hi,
I have now run out of option with my 'New' PC. Firstly,
its a IBM P4 3.2Ghz with 1Gb Ram 160GB Hard Drive, 128MB
ATI Radeon Video Pro card and DVD burner running on
Window Home Edition. The machine runs very well on the
internet or just using the PC in general. Such as using
MS Office etc.

However, as soon as I try playing 'Any' games on it,
after a while (about 3 - 5 minutes) into the game it
decides to reboot itself and takes me back to the desktop.

I've had a number of suggestions but I still can't nail
it. I have taken the automatic restart off (Hopefully to
give me an error message but, it doesn't even do that).

I've upgraded the BIOS and the ATI video card as these
where other suggestions. I've also re-imaged the machine
back to when I first bought it. Which was only 3 weeks
ago. I've contacted IBM and they said to run the PC-
DOCTOR diags and everything passed. In the device
manager, there is no conflicting hardward.

So, now I'm calling on anyone who can shed more light on
this problem. I'm not game enough to buy any more games
until this problem gets fixed. The only games I currently
have are:- Gangland, CSI and SimCity 4.

Please help.
Regards
Bill

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

Have you tried updating DirectX?

www.microsoft.com/directx

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"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6d8401c42f85$867532c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have now run out of option with my 'New' PC. Firstly,
> its a IBM P4 3.2Ghz with 1Gb Ram 160GB Hard Drive, 128MB
> ATI Radeon Video Pro card and DVD burner running on
> Window Home Edition. The machine runs very well on the
> internet or just using the PC in general. Such as using
> MS Office etc.
>
> However, as soon as I try playing 'Any' games on it,
> after a while (about 3 - 5 minutes) into the game it
> decides to reboot itself and takes me back to the desktop.
>
> I've had a number of suggestions but I still can't nail
> it. I have taken the automatic restart off (Hopefully to
> give me an error message but, it doesn't even do that).
>
> I've upgraded the BIOS and the ATI video card as these
> where other suggestions. I've also re-imaged the machine
> back to when I first bought it. Which was only 3 weeks
> ago. I've contacted IBM and they said to run the PC-
> DOCTOR diags and everything passed. In the device
> manager, there is no conflicting hardward.
>
> So, now I'm calling on anyone who can shed more light on
> this problem. I'm not game enough to buy any more games
> until this problem gets fixed. The only games I currently
> have are:- Gangland, CSI and SimCity 4.
>
> Please help.
> Regards
> Bill
>