[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by SpongeLikeCow: I'm cringing at the thought of what you must be paying this shop to replace everything. Whats the brand name and wattage of your computer's power supply? Has the shop replaced it? If you are spontaneously rebooting the power supply is an immediate suspect.

I'm cringing too, S.L.C.. I got a new motherboard, a 120gb HD (upgrade from a 40gb), a 3.4mhz processor (upgrade from 1.2mhz) and a new DVD drive (the old one had just completely died). The grand total for this was $350 - which is more than I wanted to pay originally, but considering I basically have a brand new computer now, I suppose it was worth it. They had added a charge of $55.00 for RE-Installing WindowsXP the second time (when I took it back after it started spontaneously rebooting) - but I just told them I did NOT agree with that charge and the owner got very terse with me but said "If you don't agree with it then don't pay it." I took his advice. [img]graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

I have a few options. A friend of mine has a brother in Atlanta that is very knowledgeable with computers and he has offered to take a look at it for me. According to his brother, if it can be fixed, his brother can do it. There is also another PC shop in my hometown. I know the owners personally and like them - but I felt they ripped me off 2 years ago when I first got this new system and asked them to set it up and copy all the data from my old PC to this one. I called them today and they agreed to take a look at it and let me know what they felt was wrong AND how much it would cost to fix it BEFORE they did any work on it. I do feel these guys would give me a fair deal, because I don't there is anything seriously wrong with the system.

I also have a 2nd PC at the house (PC2 for future reference). I've installed BGII on there and downloaded several of the mods with no problem. But then again, PC2 did do the "spontaneous reboot" on me the other nightafter I had been playing BGII for about 30 minutes.

On PC1, Baldur's Gate was not the only game that would cause it to reboot. That is why I eventually decided it had to be something the techs did when tey re-installed XP. The PC1 even died and rebooted when my wife was trying to play a game of Scrabble (not very intensive on the graphics).

Well hopefully, somebody will figure out what the CRAP is wrong with my machine sometime soon. Then I can get back to playing BGII again full time.

Originally posted by SpongeLikeCow: Update your video drivers, sound drivers, motherboard drivers, and BIOS to the latest versions. Run Windows Update and download the latest service pack and all other critical updates. Make sure you have up to date virus protection, spyware protection, and a firewall. Are you running any garbage P2P apps like Kazaa or Morpheus?

The PC techs supposedly did update ALL the drivers and downloaded ALL Windows updates. According to the tech that worked on my machine, it was hooked to the internet for almost 3 hours downloading all the necessary Windows updates.

I do NOT have Kazaa, Morpheus or any other P2P on the machine any more. I did have both of those (along with WinMX) before the upgrade. But they are not on PC1 now. (Sadly, neither are any of the files I had downloaded using them. Lost many songs and videos. [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img]

Originally posted by SpongeLikeCow: EDIT: My labels are blue, nothing to worry about.

Glad to hear that. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] I didn't really think that was the problem - but I'm completely brainfuzzled so I figure it couldn't hurt to ask.

Hey, one other question. My CD2 on my original BGII game wen't bugger up on me and quit working completely. Other members said that Bioware will replace defective CDs. Does anybody know how to contact them and what info they need to send the replacement?