The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Shut-downs during gaming

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Sentient_6, Oct 31, 2008.

  1. Sentient_6

    Sentient_6 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    153
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hey all,
    Bit of a problem here; every time I try to play anything more intensive than Starcraft my computer has a tendency to become unresponsive and requires a hard boot. I have over 20 gigs on each of my hard drives free, so I doubt it's from that. I generally don't have much if anything running in the backround, so it also shouldn't be anything like that.

    Any ideas? I'm debating doing a fresh install very, very soon, but I'd like a solution in the meantime.
     
    Sentient_6, Oct 31, 2008
    #1
  2. Everway9

    Everway9 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    35
    Messages:
    238
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    What temp is your cpu running at whilst playing games?
     
    Everway9, Oct 31, 2008
    #2
  3. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

    Reputations:
    1,806
    Messages:
    5,921
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    206
    Run HWMonitor ( http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php) during a gaming session, but BEFORE the system locks up, exit the game and take a look at the max temps you hit. I agree with everway, sounds like a temperature problem.
     
    Hep!, Oct 31, 2008
    #3