Computer restarts while playing a game...

Wark · #1 March 26th, 2005, 12:36 AM

My computer always restarts about 45-75 seconds into the popular game "Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 40" I turned off all backround programs and put all graphic and sound options to "low" or "off" but it still doesen't work. Specs listed below:

Windows Xp Professional
AMD Athalon 1.2 GHz
512Mb DDR RAM.
9200 ATI Radeon (128mb)

The System Requirements for the game are (taken directly from the website)
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System Requirements:

Supported OS: Windows® 2000/XP (only)
Processor: 1 GHz Pentium® III or AMD Athlon™ (2.5 GHz Pentium IV or AMD recommended)
RAM: 512 MB (1 GB recommended)
Video Card: 32 MB DirectX® 9.0c compliant (see supported list*)
Sound Card: 16-bit DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)
DVD-ROM: 4X DVD-ROM (8X or better recommended)
Hard Drive Space: 5 GB
Peripherals Supported: Windows keyboard and mouse only
Multiplay: Broadband with 64 kbps upstream (128 kbps recommended)

*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:

ATI® Radeon® 8500/9000/X series
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 4/FX/6 series (GeForce 4 MX not supported)

Laptop models of these cards not supported.

These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Additional chipsets may be supported after release. For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our support website at: http://support.ubi.com.

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some DVD-RW and virtual drives.

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I tried a (legal) no-dvd program but still the same thing happens.
The weird thing is I can play games normally on High/Medium graphics like "Half-Life 2","Star Wars:Galaxies", "Everquest 2", and "Doom 3".

Help would be appreciated.

renegade600 · #2 March 26th, 2005, 01:11 AM

how big is your harddrive and how much available space?

Wark · #3 March 26th, 2005, 02:10 PM

my hard drive is 80GB and there is 3GB left after I installed the game.

Wark · #4 March 26th, 2005, 03:57 PM

deleted some things and made 5.96GB available and still does the same thing...

Wark · #5 March 28th, 2005, 03:27 PM

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ccorleyjd · #6 March 30th, 2005, 08:25 PM

Yeah, that's weird. I have Battlefield 1942 and whenever I beat the first mission it restarts my computer. You might want to go to BiA help site if you don't get success here.

B_CoLt · #7 April 8th, 2005, 01:11 AM

I have the same problem. 30 secs for 1 1/2 mins after i start brothers in arms my comp restarts. I have driect x 9c, 1 gb memory 19 gigs free space, 3.0 P4 processor, 6600 gt vid card (128), and my dvd rom is fast enough.... *** is causing that....

**smurfy** · #8 April 9th, 2005, 02:18 AM

Quote:

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some DVD-RW and virtual drives.

Are you using a DVD-RW drive or a DVD-ROM drive?