Computer shutsdown when I'mn playing video games

dustyboy316 · #1 02-26-2004, 03:26 PM

Hi. I am running on my E-machines laptop. L:ately when I play a game for like 20 minutes usually it just shutsdown. It dosen't matter which game either.

I have a 32 MB grafx card,
512 mb (ddr I think) ram,
AMD Athloon 3000+ I think

And other specs. Anyone know how to fix this?

Axplayer · #2 02-26-2004, 04:14 PM

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Originally posted by dustyboy316
Hi. I am running on my E-machines laptop. L:ately when I play a game for like 20 minutes usually it just shutsdown. It dosen't matter which game either.

I have a 32 MB grafx card,
512 mb (ddr I think) ram,
AMD Athloon 3000+ I think

And other specs. Anyone know how to fix this?

Could be power supply unit or your graphic carc

dustyboy316 · #3 02-26-2004, 04:30 PM

Power supply as in battery and recharger?

I don't think it's the graphics card, bnecause it didn't used to do this.

njovin · #4 02-26-2004, 04:57 PM

I had this EXACT same problem on my PC and the culprit was a bad power supply, although I don't know where you'd get a replacement one for a laptop...

simbill · #5 02-27-2004, 03:24 PM

what kind of laptop is it? call the company and they can take your laptop and replace the power supply.. even tho its probably mad expensive

dustyboy316 · #6 02-28-2004, 04:48 PM

Power supply, as in the battery or recharger?

Or is it something in the laptop?

We coould probably return it too because its fairly new (heh rhymes:P) because the USB ports arent's working that well either.

Play_The_0dds · #7 02-28-2004, 05:03 PM

could be several things, overheating could be caused by the induction fan on the laptop being filled with crud, a corrupt driver or os problems. did you change anything, update anything just prior to this starting to happen? and of course the power supply could cause this, but, does it do the same thing on battery or with the power cord pluged in?

dustyboy316 · #8 02-28-2004, 06:58 PM

It does the same with or without the recharger in.

I don';t think I changd anything before, but I can't do a system restore because it began doing this before we gout our net updated.

It is really possible about the fan thing, we have a bad habit of eating near the comp. I will try to stop this and see what happens. Is there anyway to clean it though?