The Sims2 is a massive resource hog. If you try to play that, make sure nothing else is running (virus scanners included)...make sure you've got plenty of free memory also.
OK, I have been checking other sites and board across the Internet for answers to my problem. On hardwareanalysis.com I read a post where somebody had a problem with their computer shutting down when they were playing 3D games. One person sugested to him getting a better power supply because he had a similar problem and upgraded his power supply and hasn't had a problem since. With the two computers I built, power supplies came with both cases so my thinking is that it may in fact be a power supply issue. What do you think?
i think it's a good guess. i've had problems with power supplies and similar symptoms. what kind of case/ps combos did you buy? A bad powersupply will make the on/off sporadic as you were saying. in addition, athlons pull in a lot of power, and thus needs a good clean-running power supply
Hell, I had a similar issue. When trying to play the SIMS 2 on my pc, it would work fine, and then as soon as I finish making a person and want to load them into the city the sound would jitter and then the pc would reboot. Sure pissed me off. Anyways, I have a problem of my own. I killed my pc today. After trying to fix it from all the spyware and virus crap, I reinstalled windows etc. and formated one of my drives. I have been having a bad problem with something on my pc that is making my cpu run at 100% all the time with out dipping, and so my OS becomes useless. I can't do anything with my pc. I Then attempted to install SP2 and while it was close to finishing it stopped progressing. It just sat there. Turns out he 100% thing was happening again. I apparently pressed control alt delete too many times or something and when the task manager finally loaded it rebooted. My pc booted up with the warning that the intallation of SP2 didn't finish and that I should uninstall it because windows was very unstable. well, I was going to but used windows for a while because it was running nicely for once. Well, eventually me being stupid I loaded the sims 2 and it rebooted on me. Now, when I attempt to boot up my pc it does the ram check etc. then dies. It says NTLDR is missing, then tells me to reboot. I can't get to windows. I suck....I don't know what to do now. I am so frustrated.....
NTLDR is the boot menu Windows NT/2000/XP use (even if you may not see it, particularly with only one OS on your system) to start the computer. There are two options... 1) Reboot with the Windows XP CD in the drive and tell it to install XP again. It will likely offer to perform a "repair" installation; you can go ahead and do this. This should also take care of any of the extra SP2 files it updated on there, replacing them with old versions. 2) Also rebooting with the XP CD, run the recovery console. As administator, run the disk fixing program (I forget the exact name; you can get it by typing "help" or "commands" or similar at the command line) with the /fixmbr command (if it's not this, it is very similiar). This should "fix" your master boot record by rewriting it and potentially allow you back into Windows. But, it's not "supported" by Microsoft and doesn't take care of the SP2 installation, so I would recommend the first one. Worst comes to pass, however, and a reformat (again) should do the trick to clean things up. But, with the 1st option, I don't think that'll happen.
I think he was looking to see the wattage of each supply. For those prices, I'm going to take a gues to say that it's not very high -- maybe 250 or 300. It should be in the documentation for the hardware, or you can get to it by looking at the power supply itself in the case.
I can help with the video issues, but will refrain until you sort out the shut-down problems. Go and buy a good quality power supply and eliminate that possibility once and for all!
Swap out the power supply with one that you know is reliable. (that's one of the first things I recommended) I betcha that's the problem -- droxford
yea...alot of those cheap cases come with crappy power supplies....go ahead and go down and buy a couple of good ones.. even if it doesnt fix this particular problem...it will save you hassles eventually.
Pun, if you live near Bellaire and Gessner, you can bring it by my office and we'll try some stuff on it. I've got tons of known good parts I use for testing. Otherwise, I'm kind of out of good ideas right now. Perhaps I'll think of something later.
THanks for the info man. I switched the order of the boot so that it goes srtaight to the cd wrather than HD first. WHat do I need to do in order to get it to install windows again? I had the cd in the drive during boot up and it looked at it, and started to load off it but then I got the NTLDR missing thing again.
Uprising -- if you are booting off of the CD, it shouldn't even get to the hard drive. It probably comes up with one line saying "Press any key to boot from CD...." -- make sure you press a key and then a nice blue screen should come up, getting around the hard drive/NTLDR thing.
Speaking of which, I was checking out an Ashlee Simpson site today, and this thing called "my Search Bar" automatically installed on the computer. Now there is a pop-up every two minutes. When I went to uninstall, the program says "are you sure you want to remove?" I click "yes", and it immediately says "successfully uninstalled". Problem is it doesn't uninstall. It stays on. And I never asked for the damn thing either. Does anyone know how to get rid of this piece of crap???
If memory serves.....Pun is in Arkansas.. otherwise I would have just had him come by my office....lots easier than doing it this way.
Did that. Spybot couldn't find it. I've never seen such a pestering piece of crap bug. It is literally popping up 3-4 things every 5 minutes, including five times while I've typed this. Has anyone ever heard of "My Search Bar" before? The worst part is I didn't download anything. Just went on a site, and it automatically downloaded.
