computer restarts HELP!? :(

[HiPPo]

idk whats going on im completely clueless

at the character screen of:
Everquest
Dungeon Runners
Perfect World
my computer restarts for no reason,
but the weird thing is that im able to play:
WoW
RoM(Runes of Magic)
and D&D online
just fine with no problems..except for the expected lag..

(i know what your thinking.. and i only play one at a time i Dled the others to test them out i only have EQ and WoW installed atm)

i have a 2gig pcu (amd) ati x1600 pro 512mb 1025 ram
directx is up to date along with my vid drivers..

if anyone has any advice to help out or knows whats going on would very much appreciate it.

[provocating]

Well to start I would at least do a online virus scan and check your application and system logs. There is a small possibility that something is written to the event log before the reboot.

[trevius]

Your RAM is extremely low for playing most/all of those games. If you have page filing disabled, as soon as you run out of RAM, your computer will do stuff like that. Even with page filing enabled, most of the time it only adds half of what you already have, which would give you 786MBs of total possible RAM+Page file. That is extremely close to what EQ uses with max settings turned on.

It could also be that you just have bad RAM and when a certain section of the RAM gets used, it crashes your PC. PCs rebooting like that are normally hardware issues. It could be that your system is overheating, or videocard is starting to give out, or any large number of possibilities.

[provocating]

I agree with Trevius totally.

The things that I have found in the past that caused these types of things in the past.

1) Faulty stick of ram - for the same reasons Trevius stated.
2) Overheating or bad processor - Processors do not go out often but working in a retail repair environment I did see them go bad and everyone of them was AMD.
3) Bad power supply - Often when you hit a certain load the power supply will reset and reboot the machine. Crazy as it sounds I do see reboots caused by a flaky power supply.

EQ1 is horribly depending on the processor and will tack a single core at 100 percent, so this is harder on a single core processor. I will almost bet it is a heat problem.

[HiPPo]

well i have firewall/virus scanner and i dont have anything on my computer

and im always using the same( well not same but yeah ) computer i used to play EQ 1 and 2 with

[provocating]

Well entertain us and run a load on the computer, a benchmark type software that puts a load on the processor.

[gaeorn]

Actually, that should be plenty of ram if he's using XP and only running one copy of EQ. But I agree, restarts are often times heat related. I'd check temps while using a stress test and if they look good, I would run some memory and cpu diagnostics.