System Shuts down abruptly while playing Ashes Cricket 2009

[kashifet]

Hi,

Recently installed Ashes Cricket 2009 but system shuts down abruptly after 10 minutes of playing the game. I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit version, 3 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 310M Graphics Card.

Any help will be much appreciated.

 

[Fantail]

My first suspect would be overheating - no idea how demanding that game your playing is but the same thing would happen to me with GRAWII. I upgraded the heat sink and wound up getting a better case. But your system is a laptop, try some canned air and clean out the cooling on your system if you can.

Edit - does your laptop have a utility to monitor temps if not try speed fan and see if it's running hot.

 

[kashifet]

Hi..thanks for the reply got the following report on Speed Fan
Win9x:NO 64Bit:YES GiveIO:NO SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked Intel 5/3400 Series SMBUS at $4000
Found nVidia GeForce 310M
Linked nVidiaI2C0 SMBUS at $3D403E3F
Linked nVidiaI2C1 SMBUS at $3D403637
Linked nVidiaI2C2 SMBUS at $3D405051
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
Scanning Intel SMBus at $4000...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403E3F...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403637...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D405051...
Found WDC WD3200BEVT-22A23T0 on AdvSMART
Found Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz
End of detection

temperatures are as follows
GPU, Core 1 and Core 2 temperatures are 71
HD0 is 64

I was not playing the game when I ran this test

 

[whs]

What about the temp of your graphics card.

 

[kashifet]

how do I get the graphics card temperature? I m getting only these 4 temps which i mentioned earlier.

 

[whs]

Google is your friend

http://www.ask.com/web?q=measure+graphics+card+temperature&search=&qsrc=0&o=14597cr&l=dis

 

[kashifet]

GPU temperature is 80 after 5 minutes of plaing the game

 

[whs]

That is pretty high. Measure again after 15 minutes to see whether it goes up..

 

[kashifet]

temp has gone upto 86.

 

[whs]

I think you found your problem. Open the box and look whether there is dust or something else that could keep it from cooling properly. Else try to improve the climate in your box - e.g. with an extra fan.

 

[kashifet]

ok thanks..will check and see if it solves the problem.