=.=Crashinggg

[Toad]

Basically over past few weeks I've been crashing occasionally, thats computer restarts without warning back to bios screen the power doesnt go off completely just restarts right onto bios screen and then eventually back to desktop like normal.

 

 

 

It used to be once every few weeks, then every morning, now every few hours, and sometimes doesn't do it for about 8 hours.

 

 

 

So I politely asked me friend with a degree in computing, to which he replied "It's broken" note i dont have to be straining the pc with heavy tasks I could just be in rs hd, for it to crash and this computer is only 2 years old.

 

 

 

My specs.

 

 

 

Dual core 2.8 Ghz Processer.

 

1GB Ram.

 

NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT Graphics card

 

 

 

Since buying my computer I have not upgraded it or changed anything I have never had problems with it and it's up to date with windows updates, with java, with my graphics card drivers.

 

 

 

As some as you know a week today is my 99 slayer & summon party and to crash on that it would frustrate me immensly any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

Thank you

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

This is a puzzler. It could be due to overheating, or too many processes running at once. I assume that you're running Windows XP, but just to be sure, would you mind posting the OS too?

[Toad]

This is a puzzler. It could be due to overheating, or too many processes running at once. I assume that you're running Windows XP, but just to be sure, would you mind posting the OS too?

 

 

 

Yes it's windows xp.. I don't think its because of too many processes, I've watched films, whilst playing RS-HD and been talking to friends at same time before, so I dont think it can be this.

 

 

 

Also to narrow it down, I recently took all detail options off and havent crashed, so I think maybe PSU, or could it be the Graphics card/RAM?

 

 

 

I'm going to take it to a shop on monday, and buy new parts not sure what to buy to test a PSU and if its still crashing go back the next day, tommorow (sunday) i'm going to run it in low detail mode all day and see if it crashes then maybe start viewing youtube etc see if as i build up the list it will tell differently.

[compfreak847]

No bluescreen makes driver problems unlikely. It could very well be overheating - RSHD, like most games, will always use 100% of your CPU\graphics card power to cache and give the highest framerate possible, so it could easily cause overheating. Does it ever happen when your doing word processing or browsing the internet?

[Toad]

No bluescreen makes driver problems unlikely. It could very well be overheating - RSHD, like most games, will always use 100% of your CPU\graphics card power to cache and give the highest framerate possible, so it could easily cause overheating. Does it ever happen when your doing word processing or browsing the internet?

 

 

 

Not sure since I don't tend to do that lol I can tell you this much I've been running RSHD for 6 months without problems.. and as for bluescreens I think they're disabled by default.

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

No bluescreen makes driver problems unlikely. It could very well be overheating - RSHD, like most games, will always use 100% of your CPU\graphics card power to cache and give the highest framerate possible, so it could easily cause overheating. Does it ever happen when your doing word processing or browsing the internet?

 

 

 

Not sure since I don't tend to do that lol I can tell you this much I've been running RSHD for 6 months without problems.. and as for bluescreens I think they're disabled by default.

 

Wow, I'd sure love to find the setting for that in my XP installations. :P

 

 

 

Anyway, check the inside of your computer. If you see a mound of dust on fans, the CPU cooling block, and blocking more than 20% of the vents, then it's definitely overheating. If you want to clean it out, take a facemask and some compressed air, and blow it all out.

 

 

 

You don't have to clean it out right now, but do check the inside, and let us know how much dust is actually in there.

[Toad]

No bluescreen makes driver problems unlikely. It could very well be overheating - RSHD, like most games, will always use 100% of your CPU\graphics card power to cache and give the highest framerate possible, so it could easily cause overheating. Does it ever happen when your doing word processing or browsing the internet?

 

 

 

Not sure since I don't tend to do that lol I can tell you this much I've been running RSHD for 6 months without problems.. and as for bluescreens I think they're disabled by default.

 

Wow, I'd sure love to find the setting for that in my XP installations. :P

 

 

 

Anyway, check the inside of your computer. If you see a mound of dust on fans, the CPU cooling block, and blocking more than 20% of the vents, then it's definitely overheating. If you want to clean it out, take a facemask and some compressed air, and blow it all out.

 

 

 

You don't have to clean it out right now, but do check the inside, and let us know how much dust is actually in there.

 

 

 

Did that earlier today, also had both sides off the past 2 days, to check out if it was overheating it still crashed

[Toad]

Also since july my dvd drive hasnt worked when i put a disk in computer resets, so that points to psu since i bought a new one and that didnt work, but could this be a seperate problem, since i switched to RS LD no crashes, is that still the power, or could this be an entirely different issue?

[Sbrideau]

Do you guys actually know what you're talking about?! If it was overheating, the computer would STAY off. To me, on Windows XP, just restarting like that looks more likely to be a blue screen than anything else.

 

 

 

smelly, what I'd like you to do, is go right click on "My Comptuer", choose properties and go to the advanced tab. there will be 3 sections with a "settings button". Choose the one in the startup and recovery section, and then in the failure section, uncheck "restart automaticaly". There, you will be able to see the blue screen you get, and if you could provide us with the error code (which looks something like STOP 0x0000000 (0x0000000, [...]), then we will be more able to help you.

[Toad]

Do you guys actually know what you're talking about?! If it was overheating, the computer would STAY off. To me, on Windows XP, just restarting like that looks more likely to be a blue screen than anything else.

 

 

 

smelly, what I'd like you to do, is go right click on "My Comptuer", choose properties and go to the advanced tab. there will be 3 sections with a "settings button". Choose the one in the startup and recovery section, and then in the failure section, uncheck "restart automaticaly". There, you will be able to see the blue screen you get, and if you could provide us with the error code (which looks something like STOP 0x0000000 (0x0000000, [...]), then we will be more able to help you.

 

 

 

 

 

Ok thanks, well going to bed now, done what you just said tommorow i'll get one within 2 hours i'd say of having it on i'll write down code and forward it here

[Toad]

I disabled the automatic restart and I still don't get a blue screen the same thing happens.

[Sbrideau]

Then that's something else restarting the computer like that. Did you check if you had a lot of dust before I came along? I never saw a computer "restart" for overheating, only staying off, but nothing's impossible.

 

 

 

I'm going to think of other things that can be causing that.

[Toad]

Then that's something else restarting the computer like that. Did you check if you had a lot of dust before I came along? I never saw a computer "restart" for overheating, only staying off, but nothing's impossible.

 

 

 

I'm going to think of other things that can be causing that.

 

 

 

I've opened it up and used compressed air to clear dust, but it didnt help, i also have my computer plugged into a surge protector (which has 7/8 plugs in) would that be an issue? i only have that box to not restart unchecked are there others?

 

 

 

also does this point to it NOT being hardware failure such as RAM or Graphics card or even motherboard since theres no bluescreen?

 

 

 

Like i said sometimes it goes 8 hours without crashing sometimes it goes every few minutes, so far i switched to rs-ld and it hasnt crashed where as hd pretty much crashes instantly, and sometimes it crashes without rs starting up at all i've cut down on applications aswell of things i have open at a time (not sure if i start up more it'll crash should i try?).

 

 

 

Last night i downloaded latest drivers from nvidia which i havent updated in months and it was uncompatible it wouldnt get past the windows xp screen with loading bar once it got past that screen stayed black with no cursor so i did it by latest known working configuration.