Computer keeps restarting.

[BobbyCG]

I had a problem on here before and got help figuring out my monitor needs replacing so I thought someone might be able to help with this issue.

Im not sure of the exact reason but my computer seems to randomly restart when I am playing games (mostly nfs carbon and bf2142). I am not sure the issue and was wondering what some people might suggest as to a cause.I did a prime95 test and an error came up but I have no idea what the error means. This is the result txt file:

[Fri Nov 03 02:02:50 2006]
Self-test 1024K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 02:19:10 2006]
Self-test 8K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 02:34:24 2006]
Self-test 10K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 02:50:58 2006]
Self-test 896K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 03:07:02 2006]
Self-test 768K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 03:22:08 2006]
Self-test 12K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 03:37:10 2006]
Self-test 14K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 03:53:21 2006]
Self-test 640K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 04:11:58 2006]
Self-test 512K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 04:31:15 2006]
Self-test 16K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 04:46:30 2006]
Self-test 20K passed!
[Fri Nov 03 05:05:47 2006]
Self-test 448K passed!
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4999976158, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.




I have

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ @2.2ghz (overclocked from 2500+ @ 1.8Ghz)
nForse2
Soltek SL-FRN2-L mobo
1gig pc3200 samsung ram
nvidia 6600GT AGP vid card with vivo
new Silent Boost heatsinc/fan
500watt power supply
2x80gig hdd
3 fans to exchange air, 2 out in the back and one coming in from side

 

[thndr143]

FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4999976158, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file

Bad ram module

 

[Susquehannock]

Is this a problem which has developed recently in a system which worked fine for some time previously?

If so check for bad capacitors on your motherboard. That can be a source of random unexpalined problems.

Many mobo makes fell prey to the "bad cap issue" when millions of defective capacitors flooded the market a few years ago. Look for bulges and/or brown deposites.

Great motherboard by the way. The Soltek FRN2 is arguably the best nf2 board made.

 

[BinarySynapse]

Have you tried de-clocking to see if it stablizes again?

 

[BillParrish]

download and run memtest86+ (google it for site) it will verify if it is a ram problem (or not).