Random restarts when gaming, could it NOT be the video card?. Well I just sent my X1800xt back because when I was gaming my PC would just restart itself. I checked the clock speeds and they were UNDERCLOCKED, so I tried to bring them up to standard speeds,...

during the flash. i set the settings to default,restart, flashed the bios, then set to default again, restrat, then put my settings in. i managed to play for an hour, then it happend again. any other suggestions? If you have another video card, something...

it are having the same problem as you), or you need to lower the game settings and check your temps. Your system may be overheating. The simplest solution would be to get the latest updates for your video card, sound card and motherboard, as well as Vista,...

mean it's not the problem. Try other games that requires the video card to spin up it's 3D clock. If you get restarts on those the chances can be very likely that it is still a power problem. I am not rulling out the PSU, i am new to gaming, so this really...

watching online videos. Very strange indeed. I thought it may have been the onboard ethernet card, but my pc would have had connection problems which it doesn't. Its quite possible that you're overheating something, most likely being the video card, but possibly...

It was completely random (at least to me). Recently I started playing some video games more often, L4D, Aion. And I finally found a way to kind of force it to restart or freeze. In the game Aion, it happens everytime I play it, sometimes it takes 20min...

8800GTS 640 BSOD/random reboots. I am getting random restarts during games. I can get about 1 hour of gameplay in UT3. If I'm not running any 3D apps or games, my system seems stable, which is why I'm posting this here. Usually it just reboots - I don't...

my AMD computer has: AMD 1.333, Asus A7M266 MB, 128 DDR 2100 RAM, 40 Gig hd, 300W power, ATI AIW Radeon video, SB Live Value, DVD drive, floppy, network card, Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, Win2k (also tried WinXP with a different 100 Gig HD... same...

in HWMonitor This will allow you to monitor both the processor and video card temps. The CPU getting to hot would likely cause a random restart. I've done all of that, I recently bought 4 new 120mm fans for the side of my case the card runs cool, the thing...