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dmtld50Posted on 12/16/04 at 17:45:13

THis happens to me everytime i use it. When im running a card my whole computer resets. Can anyone help me with this?
Critic of the DawnPosted on 12/16/04 at 18:13:07

That's really odd...  I've never heard of people having that problem.

If you could answer a few questions, you might be able to help Oliver figure out what the heck is going on.

First, does the computer restart immediately when you run a card, or does it happen sometime during the card?  If it's the latter, have you noticed it happening at a specific point (such as during ring introductions, etc)?  Does it still do this when you run the program through DOS?  Does any error message appear, or does your computer just spontaneously restart itself?

Eric "Critic of the Dawn"
dmtld50Posted on 12/17/04 at 00:09:02

sometimes it does it mid car other towards the last 2 matches. I do listen to music while im using tnm might that have something to do with it?
Rick GarrardPosted on 12/17/04 at 00:50:06

The first thing I'd do if it were happening to me, is to run a complete virus scan of my system, just in case the resets are being caused by something other than TNM and your MP3 player running in the background.

Then if you find nothing there, come back and let us know.
PulsarPosted on 12/17/04 at 07:25:19

90% of the time, a restart like that is caused by one of two things:

A) Computer overheating (not likely in this case, but possible)

B) Viral -Could be a worm virus triggered by certain events, such as when your computer uses a certain file(s) etc. Run your virus scanner, then disable it, and go to www.trendmicro.com and run their online scan, with could also find a problem.
Oliver CoppPosted on 12/18/04 at 18:38:18

With pre-Win2K systems, there is also the possibility of the DOS shell panicking and triggering a reset. The one thing you can be certain of, though, is that nothing TNM or any DOS-based application does will reset your system - unless, of course, the application sets out to do that (which TNM doesn't *g*).