What's wrong with my pc these days?

**Sonicboy 101** · September 5th, 2007, 17:11

Ehhh, this sucks.
Every time I play a PC game, 10 mins in it shutdowns on itself.
I don't know why it's doing it. It seems like bad luck

I'd do anything to fix it (as long as it doesn't involve money

)

**steve520** · September 5th, 2007, 17:14

have you tried doing system restore it usually seems to fix my computer when its like really slow.

**Sonicboy 101** · September 5th, 2007, 17:28

No.
How do I do that? (I don't know much about these sort of things)

**JPJunkie** · September 5th, 2007, 17:33

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...w_03may19.mspx

A guide I found

**Sonicboy 101** · September 5th, 2007, 18:34

Thanks.
Will it delete my installed apps?

**Axelius** · September 5th, 2007, 18:57

To me this sounds more like as if your computer was getting too hot. It becomes a lot warmer when you're playing a computer game than when you're just working, or surfing etc.

Have you recently changed any hardware? Or have a look inside! Is there a lot of dust in the fan of the cpu or graphics-card? If yes, clean it!

Don't worry. If your PC becomes too hot, the hardware usually does not get damaged. It is shut off immediately to prevent damage.

**Sonicboy 101** · September 5th, 2007, 19:06

No new hardware have been installed, I'll check for dust in a mo.
It's weird, it never used to do it, but it started doing it rarely round about 2 months ago. Now it does it often when playing games.