Can anyboody help?........

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27. January 2006 - 18:16
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Well a friend of mine has this kind of porblem . When he plays q3 his pc resets ot turns off . It happens only during playing q3 . I have no idea how to help him so i decided to ask u guys =]

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27. January 2006 - 18:21
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problems with open gl dlls?

also could be that his graphics card is overheathing. happened to my friend to, but only in q3... the card just went berserk.

I am proud of spreading a pirated Excessive Plus version and claim to be the original author, yay!

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27. January 2006 - 19:10
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i had this problem with another q3 based game ..the fan was broke on my gfx card and i had set /com_maxfps to 0 - it burnt out. :roll: :roll: :roll:

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27. January 2006 - 19:32
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1. overheating CPU
2. bad/not stable - power suply unit
3. if he has ati card, it wouldnt restart pc / VPU recover would restart GPU, but not whole pc..

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27. January 2006 - 19:54
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Maybe there lives some kind of animal inside the computer, perhaps a bird or a biker mice, that simply doesnt like q3. So every time he tries to play q3 the animal gets angry and turns off the computer.


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27. January 2006 - 19:59
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*SHORT.SWE* wrote:

Maybe there lives some kind of animal inside the computer, perhaps a bird or a biker mice, that simply doesnt like q3. So every time he tries to play q3 the animal gets angry and turns off the computer.


bikermice


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n1 Big grin

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27. January 2006 - 20:40
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heheh yea a good one but it is not a bird =]

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27. January 2006 - 23:49
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i have a mouse in my comp (he likes to be warm so he sleeps on my hdd) and he doesnt turn off my comp...

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28. January 2006 - 0:07
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2. bad/not stable - power suply unit

I agree,but also it could be overheated graphics card thats getting ready to burn out,and beelieve me,I would know since I recently had my GF3 Ti200 burn out on me and I had the same symptoms...
Can u tell us how long it takes for the pc to restart...my restarted after 5 minutes max whren playing q3...sometimes after 10 seconds Big grin

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28. January 2006 - 3:50
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gfx card prob imo, take the cover of your pc if it takes longer to shut down buy some fans Happy

edit: written while very drunk so its doesn’t make total sense, but there is something there I think Happy

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28. January 2006 - 10:04
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i had the same problem too...and just removed one side of the housing...so the cooling is better...just take good care of the dust!

it works fine now

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