*Possibly resolved--Spontanious reboot
karialSim:
I've seen a couple of threads here that are similar to my problems, but I thought I'd go ahead and make a new one. Sorry for that if it turns out to be the same thing.
My problem is that I start up the game, load a household and play for a few minutes (sometimes 5 minutes or so, but the last time was about 20-30 minutes), and then the computer reboots itself. I log back in, and an error message pops up telling me there was a serious error. These are screenshots of the error message.
The first pic...I found the file and moved it to my desktop (didn't delete it out of fear of messing something up). Second one I didn't even try.
Any ideas? This is a brand spanking new gaming computer. I don't know all the specs, but I can find that out tomorrow (later today I guess lol) when my husband is awake. He knows that stuff, and I'm just a dumb chick. ;) I really hope I can get this fixed because the main reason he bought me this new computer is to play the Sims. Please help! I'll bake you some cookies! lol
**see my last post
*attached image removed*
unclesparks:
Kari,
When I rebuilt my computer a few months ago I had the exact same problem. I could play for seconds or hours and *wham!* reboot. The problem persisted for several days and then went away and never came back.
I'm trying to think. I thought it was the video cards doing it. I have dual BFG Geforce cards (256MB RAM each) and one was bad when I got it and I had all sorts of problems getting them to work in tandem, but I think that ultimately it was a bad USB port that was causing it (short maybe?). I got a 1.1 usb light on a flexible cord a job expo and it worked great, but when I filled up the other 3 usb ports with flash drives and my dvd burner the computer went berzerk. When I removed the light and only used certain ports the problem stopped.
It may have been purely coincidental that it behaved at the same time I removed it, but check your USB ports and remove everything and see if the problem persists. If not, then add them back until it comes back and you'll know where the problem is. If it persists without anything in the usb ports, then i don't think I can help you on this Kari.
Good luck.
JayAngel:
The good old spontaneous reboot :D I'm sure you've got the latest video drivers installed. Have you run Chkdsk to make sure all files are present and correct? And you could try downloading CrapCleaner from here - the issues section finds anything causing problems but it's wise to make a backup before dealing with the issues.
Dinki:
Hehe Jay :)
I had similar problem and running that issues thingie that Jay recommends seems to help,
I still wonder though why was it happening - my compie was rebooting when I put any cd in the cd-rom...
karialSim:
I'll check and make sure my video drivers are the latest, and check the other stuff. It was custom built though, and brand new so there shouldn't be any errors.
Here's the specs
graphics- dual nVidia 7600 GT, SLI mode 512MB each
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