Computer Restarts Itself - Comments Page 15

Hey Bob, my notebook Has a problem, i tried others sources and nothing. The problem code is happening in my notebook Vaio model VGN-B100B:
BCCode : 100000d1 BCP1 : 02F25000 BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000000 BCP4 : 02F25000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0
Could you help me? Thank you very much.

EDITOR'S NOTE: From what I've read, this is usually caused by failing RAM (memory stick), or overheating.

Hey bob,i play alot of games and most games don't restart but when i play games like wow i can play for like upto 3 hours then for no reason it will freeze up and restarts itself and another game i have just installed summer athletics i play that at 10-15 minutes at the most and that will do the same but alot shorter than wow i have latest drivers etc most of other games i play like need for speed underground 2 and most wanted no problems at all never have restarted once i even have formatted and still the same for games like wow, summer athletics and fear so i don't really understand : / my specs are amd 64 3500+ 2 gig of ram and a nvidia geforce 8400 gs i recently just bought the new gfx card thinking it was to do with my other one which was a nvidia geforce 6600 but no suprise still doing it so if you could help me out would be great thanks.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Most likely it's an overheating issue. Have you tried any of the suggested remedies?

Hi Bob, I have been having a restart problem for some time, i.e. random restarts and the computer has been back and forward to the shop where I bought it to no avail. They even re-installed Windows XP. I installed an extra GB of Ram from the same shop some time ago myself. After following your advice on your website I removed the new RAM chip and after a week I have had no further random re-starts. Many thanks for your advice, hopefully my hair will now start to re-grow. I think I will recommend your website to the computer shop and hope they will get their act to-gether.

hey, my computer has been restarting for a while now. i've done diagnostics to determine that its not overheating, its not the memory, and its not the power supply, since those were the most common problems i found online. here's the funny thing. it restarts during certain games, and the quality of the game doesn't make a difference. Warcraft 3 restarts in 10 minutes, but Crysis never restarts. when it does restart, the system doesn't log an error. any other possibilities?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Could be your video card.

Ok, now I've tried to disconnect the DVD player, change it, removed both RAMs (one at a time tough), also ran Speedfan, which shows normal degrees (dont have any nr's now, but around 40-ish). The screen doent go white as described below any more, it just goes black and computer restart itself now. Still no BSOD tough, even tough I've unchecked the auto restart checkbox.

I have NOT tried to change the power supply or the graphics card tough. If I remove the graphics card, there should be a built in one that loads the graphics, am I right (as in safe mode)?

Power supply will have to wait tough, since I dont have any new one to replace it with. My own very uneducated guess is that it is the graphics card. Since the computer reboots when I use the DVD and play games. One thing that confuses me tough is that the computer reboots when I play a game named FreeCol, a Java game. Very well, if you got a hint from this, please tell me :)

EDITOR'S NOTE: No, if you remove the graphics card/adapter, there will be nothing to plug the monitor into! I agree that you should test both the graphics card and the power supply.

Can the graphics card's fan's temerature give random restarts? Since there's no good way to clean it (locked into a plastic container) It hasnt been done. Thinking Ill buy some high pressure air and try to blow out some dust from the fan, to see if that helps.

If my guesses are right, the temerature of the graphics card in SpeedFan is about 50degrees C, and it is a little high according to Speedfan. temp 1 shows 33C, 2 shows 34C, 3 shows 128C, but I guess this is a non-existant fan also.

After these, there is a Fan 1 temp again, and my guess this is the graphic card's temp (approc 51C).

my computer restart it self when i want to install the office program?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Is it a genuine copy of Office?

my computer shut down itself when i want to play a game or when i want to install windows xp by bootable cd.what should i do?please help.

EDITOR'S NOTE: So you checked for overheating conditions, flaky RAM, the power supply, and all the other things I suggested?

I've been looking for answers and will definitely come back to this website!

my computer always restarts during boot up, when it reaches to Windows XP screen Loading it restarts again and again. It cant reach to the desktop. what's the remedy for this one???

EDITOR'S NOTE: When did this start? Did you install any new hardware? If so, disconnect it and try again. If you can boot into Safe Mode, then try System Restore to an earlier date.