wile playing eq2, i get multi colored lines all the way accross monitor then....

[yohann koldheart]

<p>my system freezes and restarts.</p><p>it only happends when playing eq2, it started tuesday or wednesday.</p><p>its totaly random, sometimes i can play 2 hours and others 5 min before it happends.</p><p>what could be causing this?</p><p>i hope it isnt but, to me it sounds like my vid card but then agaim im know nothing about computers.</p>

[OFPsycho]

<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">What graphics card do you own? Have you tried different drivers for your graphic card?</span></span>

[yohann koldheart]

will update my graphics driver now, to see if that helps

[kjfett4]

Sounds like what you are seeing is artifacting from a heating problem; possibly a bad fan. Pop the panel off your CPU and run it for a while (naturally when no one is around to jab a screwdriver into your moobo) and see if that helps. After playing a while, look in and see if the fan is running....or making odd noises maybe. If it doesn't crash, or after playing an hour or two, the fan (if it has one) doesn't kick on, then you know its a cooling issue. Consider buying a PCI slot fan or review where the CPU is sitting. If it still artifacts and crashes with the fan running and the case open...it might already be too damaged. The restarts could be from a process built into most systems nowadays where the system will coldreboot when it overheats.

[yohann koldheart]

<p>i tried what you said and it still does it, could this be  the result of a low system battery?</p><p>ive been getting a alert that my system battery is low, but havent got a chance to run out and buy one.</p>

[cr0wangel]

Battery is low? Are you using a laptop? O_OUsually when you see lines in the graphics it's either an heat issue like he said or your video card dying.

[antwar]

<cite>cr0wangel wrote:</cite><blockquote>Battery is low? Are you using a laptop? O_OUsually when you see lines in the graphics it's either an heat issue like he said or your video card dying.</blockquote>generally, all motherboards have a battery to save the bios settings, and tokeep the internal clock running even if there is no actual power going into the motherboard from the PSU. so he could mean a desktop system bios battery, and i doubt he means the laptop battery.

[Tebos]

He's most likely referring to either a low battery pop-up indicator for the laptop battery or the wireless keyboard/mouse indicator. I don't think it has anything to do with the issue at hand. An adequate supply of power for the video card could cause this as-well-as over-heating. Take a can-of-air and blow off the built-up dust on the video card fan of the desktop computer or the vent holes on the notebook computer.

[yohann koldheart]

<p>i have a dell dimension 8400</p><p>2 gigs of ddr2 ram,p4 3.4 with HT</p><p>a geforce 6800 pci express vid card.</p><p>i get the message at start up that my battery  voltage is low and needs to be replaced. the only battery is the little round one on the motherboard. looks like a big watch battery.</p><p>on my pcu there is no fan on it, the pcu is on the motherboard and on top of the pcu is a metal rack with cooling fins going through it, then behind the fins at the rear of the case is a huge fan to suck the hot air out.</p><p>i am thinking its my vid card because it only does it when i play games,but the fan on the vid card is working fine.</p><p>i wanted to get the new card anyways so will try to see if replacing that fixes it monday. will also get a battery for the motherboard too i guess.</p>