PC restarting?

Has anyone else had a problem where their PC reboots when they launch SL? It only seems to do it after the PC has been off for a while, or the screensaver was recently active.

Once I reboot and get going, I can quit and relaunch just fine for the rest of the day.

Anyone get this? Let me know and we can compare hardware and software.

Otherwise, I just sit here thinking it's me ;-)

This is a saftey feature built in to SL to stop you from playing too long and forgetting to eat/sleep/etc.

This is just a guess, but it sounds like maybe your graphics driver isn't happy with mode switching. You might try changing drivers. Might not have anything to do with it but at least you can eliminate it as a possibility if upgrading or rolling back drivers doesn't fix it.

Actually, it seemed to start shortly after I tuned my GeForce 4mx to do all the fancy crap in its control panel. Now I'm trying to set it all back, but the effect seems to be permanent :-/

Pretty clever, Chip :-)

Though I think Wednesday is on to something, I already put in about 60 hours a week in SL> What am I going to do when the hours expand?????

happy to Help Kathy. Uninstalling your graphics card driver (through control panel: add/remove programs) and then reinstalling it should reset you back to the default settings for your card. If there's a newer driver available than what you're using, install that after uninstalling the old driver. You can also try changing the mode SL is running in. If you've been using full screen, try windowed, or vice versa.

Well, for those who might look here wit hthe same problem I had, I've come to say I fixed it. I did go back to the defaults and I haven't seen the problem since.

So, like I should have done before, I'll GRADUALLY tune up my card. One adjustment at a time :-)

Prior lesson known but ignored. At least I survived the reminder ;-)

I recall that Charlie Omega posted a thread about downgrading to a slower graphics card (his other burned out).

Reinstalling SL after turning on the bells and whistles of your card might help. Just a guess.