Windows Xp
Nvidia Nforce2 Chipset Athlon 2400 XP
Intergrated Geforce 4MX
480mb DDR RAM
Whilst using the computer (mostly whilst playing games) my computer randomly restarts or crashes out of the games.
E.g Half-life, The sims, Baldurs Gate 2, basically everything
I have updated the drivers for my Bios and Graphics card and was wondering whether anyone had experianced similar problems or know how to rectify the problems.
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Make sure everything is at stock a suggested, that's always the best place to start when trouble-shooting. Next you may want to enter the BIOS and use the Optimal or even Safe defaults just to rule out a few things. Try running an antivirus scan (there are free ones) just to rule that out too. You can check what your voltages and temps are reported as but very often these are too approximate to be truly helpful.
If you still get random restsrats the most likely cause is heat with the runners up being RAM, PSU, gfx card, CPU, mobo, card(s) not quite fully in and finally drivers or sw clash.
Use the latest official drivers for all your hw, esp mobo and gfx card. Ideally get all the Windows Update stuff. Ensure all your cards and cables are fully insertes, perhaps reinsert them all. Try diff RAM or gfx card to rule out the possibility yours are faulty, you could try your in another PC. You could take out all unecessary cards (etc) and disable unecessary onboard stuff too. That will help to rule out clashes etc and should put less strain on the PSU. The last thing is to try another PSU in there (pref a good branded 350W+) otherwise perhaps consider trying all of your components one at a time in a working PC or attempt a fresh OS install (with minimal components?).
