Are the vents and fans clean? Have you removed the dust that builds up around them? This includes any fans that are located on video and other cards.
If so, you should probably open the computer's side panels and run a fan pointed directly into the machine. If not, clean everything so that air can circulate freely as was intended.
Hey I was wondering if anybody could help me out. For a very very long time my computer has been very weird with video files, It mostly happens with AVI files but it has happend with other file types before. Basically when I play video files my computer will either completely freeze or just restart all of a sudden. I am pretty sure my codec's are up to date and there are times when I seem to fix it and it won't do it for a little while but then it will start doing it again. So does anybody know what my problem is and how to fix it?
I have XP

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