Random Crashes

El Jeargop De Rave

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2009

TRR

R/Rt

i recnetly got a new computer with some pretty awesome specs but for some reason when im playing guild wars the computer just turns itself off without warning and when i turn it back on no error message or anything and is just back to normal some people think my computer is just over heating or it may be a driver error any other ideas guys??

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

MAy I ask for a little bit of info in terms of computer specs?

and also does it only happen when the computer is under a work load or will it happen if your just idling? (just some questions off the top of my head)

El Jeargop De Rave

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2009

TRR

R/Rt

its a core2 dual procescor E8400 with 3.0Ghz. 2.5 gig of ram the graphics card is a GeForce GT 220 1024mb of dedicated VRAM and yeah its under a work load and i pretty much have to be doing stuff GW for it to crash

Mojo Moo

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Unholy Gladiators (UG)

Mo/Me

you can always try looking in the event viewer to see if an error happened just before the crash.
Here's how to find it on XP start>controll panel>admin tools>event viewer>system

On vista you can search for it by typing "event viewer" in the search box on the start menu and then click event viewer.

On windows 7 I'm sure you can search for it the same way as you do in vista, hope this helps finding out what causes the crashes.

jiggles

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

N/

Try turning off automatic restart. This can be done by going to Control panel>System>Advanced system settings>startup and recovery settings> untick automatic retsart.

Probably after you do this and your pc errors you'll get a BSOD (blue screen of death) this can be a hell of a lot more helpful for someone trying to diagnose a problem via the internet if you note down the error code and then post somewhere asking for help, including said code.

El Jeargop De Rave

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2009

TRR

R/Rt

i fixed it had something to do with the BIOS