Hello there,
I believe my problem has been mentioned on these forums before (and also posted it on Blizzard's forums) but I thought I’d share my story and check if there is any solution or suggestion.
Basically, my PC restarts when I’m playing WoW – no blue screens, just a sudden restart. I had a 5 year old PC (upgraded memory, hdd, graphics card) which had the same problem – I thought it was overheating so I lived with it. My brand new PC arrived yesterday and to my surprise it started again! Random restarts after 15 – 20 mins of game play. It’s probably worth mentioning that the only common hardware between the old and new PC is my Creative X-Fi Gamer sound card.
Here’s the spec (running windows XP Pro at the moment):
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz 8Mb Cache
I7 - Asus P6T SE Crossfire 6400FSB DD
500GB SATA Hard Drive
896Mb GTX275 PCI Express Nvidia DDR
4GB Corsair Memory DDR3 1333 (2 x 2g
Creative X-Fi Gamer 7.1 Sound Card
EZ cool 650 Watt PSU
I don’t think my system overheats as with 5 fans and 5% CPU usage that’s quite unlikely… I’m tempted to assume that it’s the sound card as it’s the only common hardware between my old and new pc. Did anyone else have problems with Creative sound cards / drivers?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated as to be honest it’s quite a shock getting a brand new system and noticing that my pc keeps on restarting.
Many thanks.
I believe my problem has been mentioned on these forums before (and also posted it on Blizzard's forums) but I thought I’d share my story and check if there is any solution or suggestion.
Basically, my PC restarts when I’m playing WoW – no blue screens, just a sudden restart. I had a 5 year old PC (upgraded memory, hdd, graphics card) which had the same problem – I thought it was overheating so I lived with it. My brand new PC arrived yesterday and to my surprise it started again! Random restarts after 15 – 20 mins of game play. It’s probably worth mentioning that the only common hardware between the old and new PC is my Creative X-Fi Gamer sound card.
Here’s the spec (running windows XP Pro at the moment):
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz 8Mb Cache
I7 - Asus P6T SE Crossfire 6400FSB DD
500GB SATA Hard Drive
896Mb GTX275 PCI Express Nvidia DDR
4GB Corsair Memory DDR3 1333 (2 x 2g
Creative X-Fi Gamer 7.1 Sound Card
EZ cool 650 Watt PSU
I don’t think my system overheats as with 5 fans and 5% CPU usage that’s quite unlikely… I’m tempted to assume that it’s the sound card as it’s the only common hardware between my old and new pc. Did anyone else have problems with Creative sound cards / drivers?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated as to be honest it’s quite a shock getting a brand new system and noticing that my pc keeps on restarting.
Many thanks.