Black Ops Problem

[Jim]

Couldn't see a thread on this so thought i'd ask here.

Has anyone who's been playing COD Black Ops had any problems with PC Randomly shutting down and then turning back on? Only tried single player so far not multiplayer but gonna try this now

Updated Drivers and doesn't seem to be a problem like this on any other website. PC is more than able to handle this.

Any ideas?

Ta La, Jim

[Snokio]

no problems reported with BO making the PC shut down, might be hardware related?

[Jim]

Doubtful, i had a Ã,£500 overhaul of my PC about a month ago replacing everything apart from my old Graphics card which is more than capable of running most games.

Annoying thing is it doesn't show what the problem is when it reboots, so could be anything. Gonna grab a torch and see if its incredibly dusty (doubtful but worth a check) inside.

Ta La, Jim

EDIT: Tried playing the game in Safe Mode and lasted a good 40 mins without crashing. So probably something to do with too high settings? i dunno im not an expert on these kinda things.

[Gorion]

You might be getting a bsod and it's auto restarting.

Go to:

Right click my pc and click properties
Advanced system settings
Startup and recovery > settings
Uncheck automatically restart
2x Ok button

Play normally until it does something.  If it reboots without showing a bsod, then that ain't the problem > might be overheating or the psu ain't pumping enough power.

If it does show a bsod, please post the error code and possibly what file/exe/dll is causing it.

[Jim]

EDIT 9:38am : Managed to find the Event Viewer and looked through what happened. This is what i found:

CRITICAL ERROR.
Source: Kernel-Power.
Event ID 41.
Task Category (63)

"The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."

I have no clue what Kernel-Power is myself, but going to look it up over Tinternet. Any Help will be appreciated
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@Gorion,

did that last night then played in safe mode and had no problems at all (at least on Multiplayer)

Tried it again this morning without safe mode and managed to play for a good 30 mins (Enough to finally get past the first level on single player) before it cut out and restarted again =/

Isn't there a system log / event viewer you used to be able to look at. I don't know if they still have it on Windows 7 / Can't find it.

Ta La, Jim

[Gorion]

Took a look around google and there seems to be numerous cases on that one.

Read quite a few which pointed to the audio drivers, some had multiple drivers installed and were crashing.

Try uninstalling all the audio drivers and re-install one.  Let's see what happens.

Links:

Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
M$ Link

P.s If you have an ati vga then the multiple driver problem has a 90% chance to be the culprit.

[DuVeL]

I do have problems with the game just crashing. Sometimes to desktop but most of the times with an 0x000-error.
I reckon it's my CPU, minimum requirement was a 6600 while I have a 6400.
 
Hope you get your computer sorted Jimbo, btw, what do mean by Safemode?

[Gorion]

Safemode loads only the basic drivers needed.

Linky

[Jim]

@Duvel, There is a safe mode if the game fails to crash that reduces the system settings for the game, while keeping your original keybindings

Basically set it to low enough settings to play, but making it look like the Original Call of Duty from ages ago

Ran it at Safemode from about 10:30am till just now (When i finished the single player) had no problems, noted what the settings were and gonna repeat them when i load up multiplayer later, flicker through the resolutions then hopefully i can pinpoint what it is

[BrotherTobious]

Jim you seemed fairly on form last night Great gun battles and knifing moves

[Jim]

Jim you seemed fairly on form last night Great gun battles and knifing moves

Hehe yeah, had a good streak last night, shame im still stuck with playing in safe mode for the time being