Computer just restarts

While playing computer games my laptop has been restarting randomly. The following are my pcs specs;

2.7Ghz
512 mb ddr
40GB
128 mb Radeon 9000

I was playing Unreal Tournament 2004, and Battlefield 1942[not simultaneously though]. I was told that the issue might be the video driver, where should I get the appropriate drive for my video card? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

the ati website

www.ati.co.uk maybe

Aside from installing the driver what else could I do to solve the problem?

Two possibilities:

1. Your RAM is faulty(not very likely)
2. Your laptop is over heating. Restarting is a fail safe. (most likely)

It might be overheating Im gonna stick a fan beside it. Is that advisable? lol, and would it work?

What OS are you using? Xp Home has been know to just randomly restart. Do a search on google for drivers for your video card.

I've had the same with my LAN server desktop and it was using Windows 98SE!

I don't think Windows 98 was supposed to live long enough to see a processor faster than 400mhz.

It wouldn't hurt. If it you can touch it and feel heat then it is getting too hot. Make sure that air can circulate under it. When you play the graphics and processor intensive games that you mentioned then the processor will generate more heat.

I used the fan idea, and it worked. Then I turned the fan off, a few mins later it restarted. What could be a permanent solution?

Buy a fan for the laptop. You might struggle to get one that fits though ...

Otherwise, keep your laptop cool by some other devious means, which I cannot specify at this point.

Well I ran regcleaner, defrag, adaware, as well as search and destroy it seems to be fine now.

Also, do you have intel active monitor? It comes on some intel powered computers. If you do, configure this so that it will alert you when it gets too hot and then you can stop and let it cool down.