Originally Posted by vpr
I know that...but I've been experiencing random restarts for about 6 months now. Started happening when my pc shut off randomly after installing and making my first character on Age of Conan (lol). I've ended up replacing everything but the RAM and CPU and it's still happening... I just wrote a nice long reply and my pc restarted so I'm retyping this.
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I know this is kinda off the original topic, but...
Any chance you replaced your video card shortly before Age of Conan? I was having the same problem, and tracked it own to a power supply issue with my video card, but NOT a wattage issue (I had a 500 watt ps)
Turns out, power supples are rated for wattage and for the max amperage they supply on each power line. The box for my video card said it requires a powersupply with 26amps on the 12 volt line.
On the sticker on the side of your powersupply it should list the amperages on each rail. Mine was a max of 16amps. It was actually pretty tough to find a power supply with 26 amps on the 12 volt rail, but since I replaced it I haven't had the problem of it shutting off on me again.
Strange thing was, I had the video card for weeks before the problem cropped up, and it was after installing Warhammer Online which pushes the graphics card harder than WoW used too. Then it started happening in WoW too but probably because I had turned up my graphics settings.