crashing

[Natch]

Just wondering if any one could help me with my current problem with css.

problem: game plays fine for about 15 mins all of a sudden blue screen "BEEP" computer restarts i have all driver updates for my machine very basic machine in all fairness just wondering if there is a setting i have missed while setting up my new system??

any help would be great.

[sparksy]

ill forward this to mr skelletor for you natch, unfortunatly my pc skills are a bit low. perhaps a dell is in order

[Natch]

thanking you

[skeletor]

check to make sure your temperatures aren't too high.

does it restart in other games?

[Natch]

temps are fine and i dont no i dont have any other ganes on this comp

[skeletor]

send a moaning email to valve that will be ignored

[Natch]

i did about 4 days ago didnt even acnowledge the email

[Crichton]

im no expert but sounds like sytem memory dump :S id try pullin ya ram out see if it still happens

[skeletor]

could be ram, put memtest on floppy and leave it on that for a couple of hours (and don't say you dont have a floppy drive)

everyone who doesnt have a floppy drive is a n00b

[Natch]

how do i do that