Sim City 4 does not work on my computer

At the beginning when I played sim city 4 that it would work, but then the computer randomly shutdown and now the game will not even begin

zachd,
You have successfully updated your hardware drivers (video, sound, etc...)?  If this is not the case, make sure that you do this.  You can do a right click on the game .exe file set the compatibility mode on an earlier version of Windows and right-click on it and select run as administrator.
If these elements do not help then you can use the event viewer and see if an error is generated.  If so, post what is the error so we can address the issue.

You can also look on the site EA support since this issue seems to be specific to SimCity4. Mike - Engineer Support Microsoft Answers
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