puter probz

[yodasmyBONG!]

anyone know why my computer completely shuts down in the middle of playing quake?  after like 10 or 15 minutes of playing...

 

[[BTF]Defiant!]

One idea..could be overheating...

Check the box is clean of dust bunnies and your cards are well seated.  Perhaps move it to a better ventilated location -- if the box' air holes are up against a wall or desk.

Def

[Whirlingdervish]

what kinda OS?
and which engine?

You don't have any windows shortcut keys setup for "shutdown" or "standby mode" do you?

I had to change some settings on my comp because I had some shortcuts that did random things
like put the monitor in standby, or bring up the "sticky" keys message box....

I'd be trying to crouch and shoot or something and my monitor would turn off... lol.

I sure hope its something this simple, since almost every other possiblity would require one
of us to physically look at your machine to diagnose the prob...

 

[DEMOn]

There are some programs that run that Windows doesn't recognize as active.... and if you have the power/screensaver/hibernate settings set, it can cause problems.
I personally have not seen this with Quake2, but have with other games.

[Kingsize]

I had the same prob for awhile with q2,would play for 10 min or get half an hour then puter would reboot.But after alot of help it ended up I had the puter overclocked as I had just built it,the switches on the mobo were set wrong so..