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Comp Restarts When I Exit Quake 3


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I dunno why this is happening.

I formatted 2 days ago, re-installed some things, nothing big, WindowFX, Coolmon, TrueLaunchBar, that sorta deal. Anyway, for some reason, which I don't know why, whenever I exit Quake 3, my computer restarts. It doesn't ask anything. I just click quit in Quake 3, and then my comp restarts.

Any ideas on why?

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You are getting a bugcheck. Your system is set to automatically restart. Try starting from a clean machine, with nothing but quake and windows xp. And then exit. If it still bugchecks, then we can look into it futher. But i a betting it is one of your other programs, or even possibly your video driver. However, without a stack trace, I can not know for certain.

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I seem to be getting this picked up when my comp restarts

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And this within Windows Help

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Event Details

Event ID: 4

Source: ACPI

Symbolic Name: ACPI_ERR_AMLI_ILLEGAL_IO_READ_FATAL

Message: %2: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (%3), which lies in the %4 protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

Explanation

The system BIOS attempted to incorrectly access hardware resources concurrently with the operating system. This type of access cannot be synchronized and can cause system instability.

User Action

Contact the system vendor for an updated BIOS and follow the vendor's instructions for installation.

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Bad news. I updated to my latest drivers, and I still reboot. Not only Quake 3 now. Also other games too. Usually hits when I finish loading something, usually from the menu, to the loading sequence, to the game itself. I crash in there. Might be a graphical glitch, but I have the latest vid card drivers.

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