Civ4 Colonization reboots my laptop

[noselicker]

This is my first Civ4 game. At this point I don't even know how to play this game, but the few times I've tried, it reboots my laptop after about 10 minutes. It doesn't crash....it REBOOTS.

This is the only info that I've found:
Faulting application Civilization4.exe, version 1.5.2.1736, time stamp 0x43aa1ac5, faulting module boost_python-vc71-mt-1_32.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e03821, exception code 0xc0000135, fault offset 0x00009eed, process id 0x1690, application start time 0x01cb3caec9a6e736.

I have a 1yr old Toshiba laptop with the following specs

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz (1663 MHz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)
DirectX version: 10.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8700M GT
ForceWare version: 176.26
Total available graphics memory: 1023 MB
Dedicated video memory: 256 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 767 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.84.51.00.21
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16

Any input is greatly appreciated!

Dan

 

[noselicker]

One other thing...I was told to visit this site

http://www.2kgames.com/#/index.php?p=support

and I only see a stupid graphic loading over and over again..

 

[The_J]

If your computer reboots, this normally means, that first an error occurs, then normally the error message should be displayed, and then it reboots.
But the computer does this so fast, that you can't read the error message.

So please turn off the automic reboot (description can be found here), and tell us, what the error message says.