laptop restarts when in full screen mode on external monitor

[murdo182]

Please help

My Laptop is linked to an external monitor to watch avi films

if i am watching an hour long film in windows media player in full screen mode the computer just restarts about 30min into the film


Can any one tell me why. you would be helping me out a lot

Thanks M

[LT. Columbo]

any chance it might be over heating?

[jmet]

Yep, your laptop is overheating.

[anonymez]

the heating is most likely caused by high constant cpu usage/insufficient cooling. to lower your cpu usage, download & install the latest (alpha) version of "ffdshow", if you haven't already done so

you may also want to watch with a player which uses less resources, such as the latest version of "media player classic"

also, make sure you have your latest graphics card drivers, since your graphics card is working to output the picture to a monitor, and certain drivers have been known to create more heat than others.

if your laptop has a feature such as 'intel speedstep', it is highly recommended you switch it on, it will lower the voltage, and thus the heat, depending on cpu usage

[murdo182]

hey. one of the biggest problems with my laptop in its review was that it over heated i think this is the case. thank for all the help

M

[LT. Columbo]

hope you get it all sorted out