Computer rebooting while playing online game

[GreedyBoo]

Here's the problem. While playing World of Warcraft, could be for 5 mins or 2hrs, my computer reboots itself. It ONLY happens while playing WOW. I've checked everything I can think of and nothing seems wrong. Also, it's a brand new computer...

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 3200+
2.01 GHz, 1.00 GB of Ram
Video Card - XFX 256MB 7900GT


Any help would be great.

 

[vagsk]

Is your PC using a Gigabit Ethernet ?

If so you may need to adjust a few settings.
Try disabling Low Power State Link Speed for start.
You can also disable Checksum offload and Segmentation Offload.

Check if this solves your problem.

 

[linney]

Make sure you have the latest Driver for your Video Card.

To get further information about any error look in your Event viewer.

Look in the System or Application folder. You can get to the Event Viewer via right click My Computer icon and select Manage.

Any errors logged in the Event Viewer can be expanded by double clicking on the error line.

Take any event error I.D. number and search for it on these sites.

http://www.eventid.net/events.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/search.aspx

Also check any "Information" line that mentions "savedump" and you should find reference to "recovered from a bug check". This is the Stop Error that caused your problem.

You can also turn off "automatically restart after an error" so it will just halt at the fault and display the full Stop Error and blue screen.

Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties .
On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery .
Click to clear the Automatically restart check box under System failure , and then click OK . The error message on a blue screen should remain on the screen so you can record the error information.

http://www.winxptutor.com/eventlog.htm