My PC is restarting when I play movies or short clips. ?

Question

My brand new PC restarts shortly after I play video files... It all turns blue with an error sign, and then It restarts... But not always....

I have: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT,

DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 4200+

2 GB of RAM

and a Divx Codex pack...

and a cooler to cool my overheated graphic card... :)

Answer 1

you have a a blue screen of death...

The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is an error screen frequently displayed by certain operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down to prevent damage. Bluescreens can also be caused by physical faults such as faulty memory, power supply issues, overheating of components, or hardware running beyond its specification limits.

i have this problem before, i changed my video card, to a more powerful one or bigger size, i never got the problem anymore.. you should check your video card...upgrade the drivers.. and make sure that you have enough memory..do not open alot of programs at same time.. this would lead the computer to restart or get the blue screen..

Answer 2

Looks like a corrupt video codec. The answer would be in the numbers that come after the error sign. You could look them up on google or come back here and people will look it up for you.

Anyways, try to reinstall the multimedia codecs that came with the machine. BTW the blue that you see is called the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death :)

Answer 3

it happened to me also i turned my hard drive upside down. its been fine since. blue error screen is a page fault on hard drive or newly installed drives not working properly. hope it helps