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Thu, 27 December 2012 20:04  |
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Tupolev TU-95 Bear
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Registered: April 2009
Location: Rìoghachd Aonaichte
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This issue has been an on-going problem since the end of November, start of December.
Whilst gaming, my computer has been shutting down and restarting, no errors, no notifications of it doing so, just sudden restart. When the computer restarts it comes up with the message (what you would usually get if the computer didn't shut down successfully), but doing mundane tasks such as browsing, playing Slender or Minecraft = no issues.
I've checked the inside of my computer and cleared any dust, checked for faulty RAM chips and it still happens.
I'm not sure if the trouble causer is my PSU, as I happened to of forgotten what the watts is and what power requirements my graphics card needs.
My PC specs
Motherboard: ASUS M4A77TD
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Graphics: EVGA GTX460
RAM: 8GB DDR3 RAM
Processor: AMD Phenom X4 B55 @ 3.30GHz
Decent people = Reaver11, ErroR, all of the mods and admins, DRNG Naffets199, Amber, Dover, GEORGE ZIMMER,Zeratul, Starbuzzzz, kane,R315r4z0r,gnoepower, Danpaul88,HaTe,WNxVerty Tiberian Technologies Generalcamo,  ,  . If you want me to add you on the decent peoples list PM me.
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| Zeratul2400 |
.AIRCRAFT KILLER YOU AR NOT JUST A BIG JACKAS AND YOU THE BIG HEAD JUST YOU CREATE GLACIER FLAYING FUCK YOU BIG JAKAS YOUR MAPS IS BAD YOU WANT I WRUGHT THIS THE MAPS IS BAD HEY IS 1 YEAR
YOUR PROMESS A CON YARD WIRH A SINGLE PLAYER POWER PLANT IN ONE
MAPS AND IS DONT JUST ACK I TELL IT ALL REPLYER IN THIS FORUM I DESLIKE YOUâ„¢ 2003
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Zeratul PT2 | zeratul2400 wrote on Mon, 10 November 2003 09:49 |
GENOCIDE YOU AR NOT JUST A BIG JACKAS AND YOU THE BIG HEAD JUST YOU CREATE DUSK FLAYING FUCK YOU BIG JAKAS YOUR MAPS IS BAD YOU WANT I WRUGHT THIS THE MAPS IS BAD HEY IS ONE YEAR YOUR PROMESS A WARPATH MOD WERKING BUT IT NO WORK AND DONT JUST GENOCIDE I TELL IT ALL REPLYER IN THIS FORUM I DESLIKE YOU.
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lol| nikki6ixx wrote on Wed, 09 June 2010 05:11 |
With only 14 people living in Canada, the retarded one was bound to show up around here sooner or later.
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| HaTe wrote on Sun, 04 July 2010 16:17 |
| Good-One-Driver wrote on Sun, 04 July 2025 01:37 |
everything is possible just need to know how to code
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Jumping from the empire state building onto concrete head first and surviving is possible if I know how to code? Wow, teach me please.
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| CarrierII wrote on Mon, 19 November 2007 22:35 |
I am in a bad mood with you, you wasted my time.
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| Altzan wrote on Wed, 30 September 2009 14:10 |
| Dreganius wrote on Wed, 30 September 2009 07:27 |
| Good-One-Driver wrote on Wed, 30 September 2009 09:03 |
lol fuckin russians damn communists
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That was the worst comment to this thread ever.
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| Nightma12 wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 14:27 |
your mum is a stupid language
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| reborn wrote on Sun, 20 November 2011 11:54 |
Liquedv2, yew need to branch out a little on your thinking. I'm sure you'll twig it soon enough, but you're barking up the wrong tree.
The map is budding with new ideas and great game-play, AitcraftKiller just has to get to the root of the problem, it seems to have him pretty stumped right now.
Leaf him alone, he's doing a good job. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say this map isn't fir you.
Anyway, this thread is really starting to lumber along, all this over some sap's map? I thought the game was dead, but this thread at least is poplar. It makes me pine for the days of yonder.
At the end of the day, life's a Beech.. Who wood of thought it?
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| Ethenal wrote on Sun, 25 March 2012 16:53 |
| Azazel wrote on Sun, 25 March 2012 10:20 |
6 Players don't know how to use a tank.
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But 1 knows how to use triggerbot!
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| Re: Intermittent shutdowns/restarts whilst gaming [message #478251 is a reply to message #478244] |
Fri, 28 December 2012 12:06  |
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Tupolev TU-95 Bear
Messages: 1176
Registered: April 2009
Location: Rìoghachd Aonaichte
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Thanks for the feedback with doing a RAM test 
I done the RAM test with WinDiag + Memtest (just so the results are the same) few days after it occurred and it came up with no issues. I did replace the RAM back in September (originally 4GB but I purchased 2x4GB from crucial).
Shall I do another test in case the new RAM is faulty?
Decent people = Reaver11, ErroR, all of the mods and admins, DRNG Naffets199, Amber, Dover, GEORGE ZIMMER,Zeratul, Starbuzzzz, kane,R315r4z0r,gnoepower, Danpaul88,HaTe,WNxVerty Tiberian Technologies Generalcamo, , . If you want me to add you on the decent peoples list PM me.
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| Zeratul2400 |
.AIRCRAFT KILLER YOU AR NOT JUST A BIG JACKAS AND YOU THE BIG HEAD JUST YOU CREATE GLACIER FLAYING FUCK YOU BIG JAKAS YOUR MAPS IS BAD YOU WANT I WRUGHT THIS THE MAPS IS BAD HEY IS 1 YEAR
YOUR PROMESS A CON YARD WIRH A SINGLE PLAYER POWER PLANT IN ONE
MAPS AND IS DONT JUST ACK I TELL IT ALL REPLYER IN THIS FORUM I DESLIKE YOUâ„¢ 2003
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Zeratul PT2 | zeratul2400 wrote on Mon, 10 November 2003 09:49 |
GENOCIDE YOU AR NOT JUST A BIG JACKAS AND YOU THE BIG HEAD JUST YOU CREATE DUSK FLAYING FUCK YOU BIG JAKAS YOUR MAPS IS BAD YOU WANT I WRUGHT THIS THE MAPS IS BAD HEY IS ONE YEAR YOUR PROMESS A WARPATH MOD WERKING BUT IT NO WORK AND DONT JUST GENOCIDE I TELL IT ALL REPLYER IN THIS FORUM I DESLIKE YOU.
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lol| nikki6ixx wrote on Wed, 09 June 2010 05:11 |
With only 14 people living in Canada, the retarded one was bound to show up around here sooner or later.
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| HaTe wrote on Sun, 04 July 2010 16:17 |
| Good-One-Driver wrote on Sun, 04 July 2025 01:37 |
everything is possible just need to know how to code
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Jumping from the empire state building onto concrete head first and surviving is possible if I know how to code? Wow, teach me please.
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| CarrierII wrote on Mon, 19 November 2007 22:35 |
I am in a bad mood with you, you wasted my time.
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| Altzan wrote on Wed, 30 September 2009 14:10 |
| Dreganius wrote on Wed, 30 September 2009 07:27 |
| Good-One-Driver wrote on Wed, 30 September 2009 09:03 |
lol fuckin russians damn communists
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That was the worst comment to this thread ever.
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| Nightma12 wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 14:27 |
your mum is a stupid language
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| reborn wrote on Sun, 20 November 2011 11:54 |
Liquedv2, yew need to branch out a little on your thinking. I'm sure you'll twig it soon enough, but you're barking up the wrong tree.
The map is budding with new ideas and great game-play, AitcraftKiller just has to get to the root of the problem, it seems to have him pretty stumped right now.
Leaf him alone, he's doing a good job. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say this map isn't fir you.
Anyway, this thread is really starting to lumber along, all this over some sap's map? I thought the game was dead, but this thread at least is poplar. It makes me pine for the days of yonder.
At the end of the day, life's a Beech.. Who wood of thought it?
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| Ethenal wrote on Sun, 25 March 2012 16:53 |
| Azazel wrote on Sun, 25 March 2012 10:20 |
6 Players don't know how to use a tank.
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But 1 knows how to use triggerbot!
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| Re: Intermittent shutdowns/restarts whilst gaming [message #478903 is a reply to message #478239] |
Thu, 24 January 2013 19:40 |
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Veyrdite
Messages: 1462
Registered: August 2006
Location: Australia, Sydney
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RAM & CPU
Your OS may be panicking & triggering a power reset. The simplest thing you can do is re-seat your memory (ie take it out and put it back in again) but this won't fix chip faults.
If you try running your computer with one stick at a time you may be able to pinpoint the issue to a faulty DIMM, and hopefully get a refund for the faulty product (if it's newish). I'm assuming you are using two 4GB sticks at the moment.
Have you OC'ed your CPU, changed RAM timings, etc?
Power Supply
This smells more like a PSU going flaky than anything else. Is it a generic or branded unit, what is its name/model and approximately how old is it?
Power supplies generally lose efficiency as they heat up, so after several hours of use/gaming yours might believe the load upon it is too high and decide to reset.
How you treat the wattage figure printed as your power supply's specs depends on how much you believe the manufacturer. Generic PSUs commonly give up at half their rated figure ( and contain regulator chips not designed to provide as much current as they advertise ) whilst more expensive units don't add up the total wattages of all their output rails (5v, 12v, etc ) but instead just advertise the 12v figure as the unit's wattage ( which is the only rail capacity that matters to most people ).
Overheating
Overheating any monitored component (graphics card, CPU, some harddrives and some PSUs ) will cause a reset. Have a feel around inside the unit while running a game or immediately after browsing the web & downloading files - is your harddrive too hot to touch, and/or are your CPU/g-card fans going crazy?
If you cannot identify any particular item overheating easily, put your case on your desk, take the cover off and run it with a desk fan pointed at it. Keep the fan a good distance away however, as they output as much EM as they do everything else ( which can cause errors when computer components are not completely shielded by a metal case connected to earth ).
If I'm using obscure terminology or you want more help, feel free to ask.
Regards, William
WOL: Veyrdite Previously: Dthdealer ( a long time ago )
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