Complete system shutdown

[confused]

Windows XP Profesional
1 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 4
Intel motherboard and P4 CPU

After character has been created. Every time the world (tutorial world) has just finished loading the PC immediately reboots (black screen then BIOS begins loading) and BIOS gives CPU temperature warning. Require F4 to be pressed to resume. I also monitored the CPU temperature and it is staying cool all the time. Even with the Task Manager running when running the PS client, the CPU does not even get to 50% usage until system shutdown upon world finished loading. Shting down windows normally does not result in any CPU warnings.

[weltall]

Windows XP Profesional
1 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 4
Intel motherboard and P4 CPU

After character has been created. Every time the world (tutorial world) has just finished loading the PC immediately reboots (black screen then BIOS begins loading) and BIOS gives CPU temperature warning. Require F4 to be pressed to resume. I also monitored the CPU temperature and it is staying cool all the time. Even with the Task Manager running when running the PS client, the CPU does not even get to 50% usage until system shutdown upon world finished loading. Shting down windows normally does not result in any CPU warnings.

it seems some driver starts going crazy. disable the automatic reboot on blue screen of death from the advanced system options and check what driver is giving issues.

[confused]

Well even after making the System setting change, it still reboots without even a blue screen of death. What driver do you think could be the faulty one that crazes only with PS.

[Minks]

Just a guess:Maybe it's not the CPU but the graphics card that gets hot?
I had a laptop with this problem once: It was fine when number-crunching at 100% CPU load
but rebooted without bluescreen after running graphic intense programs for a while.

[Caarrie]

you could contact the manacture of your pc and ask them if there is any way you can determine if the system is overheating or if the graphics card is. They may have apps you can install to test this and if under warrenty they can replace the defective part. You could also try to google your system and see if there are any reports of issues with graphics card or system overheating.

[sidkoi]

hi i use ubuntu 8.10.. have a laptop hp pavilion dv5200tx.. 1 gb ram... 160 hd .. GeForce Go 7400 with 256 mb vid mem.. I have the same problem as my comp shuts down automaticlly on the tutorial ... first i had installed it as root then changed it to user and not root...  it still crashes... the grafics card gets hot i guess (not sure) (temp problem i guess maybe of cpu).. any suggestions??

[zanzibar]

Why would PS be causing computers to overheat?

[Caarrie]

Why would PS be causing computers to overheat?

a system with fans that are not working well enough to cool the system down when running at very high cpu usage

[zanzibar]

a system with fans that are not working well enough to cool the system down when running at very high cpu usage

Wouldn't one solution be to lower cpu usage?

[Caarrie]

a system with fans that are not working well enough to cool the system down when running at very high cpu usage

Wouldn't one solution be to lower cpu usage?

not very feasible as this is a 3d game and _most_ of them are high cpu usage, also replacing fans in a pc is not very expensive and will make the pc run better.

[zanzibar]

a system with fans that are not working well enough to cool the system down when running at very high cpu usage

Wouldn't one solution be to lower cpu usage?

not very feasible as this is a 3d game and _most_ of them are high cpu usage, also replacing fans in a pc is not very expensive and will make the pc run better.

Then the next question is if these people have similar problems with other 3d games.

[Caarrie]

Then the next question is if these people have similar problems with other 3d games.

NOPE that is not the next question, the next one is when can they fix their pc before it overheats and takes the processor with it.