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computer restarting on own

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My computer is constantly restarting on its own for no apparently reason. It restarts from 10 minutes to an hour from when I started the computer. Even if I turn on the computer and leave it idle for a period of time, it restarts.

It was never like this two days ago. Don't recall downloading anything new or installing new hardware/software. I just recently reformatted my HD and it still restarts on its own.

Is this a hardware problem? Like memory? I don't hear weird clicking from my HD and have done a recent scan with no bad sectors or whatever. My specs are in the sig.
 
My computer did this... it may be some drivers your installing. My video card drivers would randomly restart my computer (bsod) all the time until I installed the catalyst 3.8's...

what are your system specs?
 
Here are my specs:
AK31A KPT-266A, AMD Athlon XP 1900+, 512 ram, GeForce 3 64mb TI200, 60 HD, 16x dvd, 24x10x48 cd-rw

I just installed the newest Geforce drivers. I don't think the drivers are causing my computer to restart. If they were, this would of been started last month.

How can I get check my ram?
 
Powersupply? I had fluctuating power before also, restarted my comp a few times, didnt know my PSU was bad until my friend took it and his did the same sometimes. Then we burned it, lol.
 
Almost certainly a PSU problem. Typical symptoms. What do you have? (list Wattage and brand). I'd preliminarily suggest a ~400W Antec or Enermax. Will last you every system you'll build. Very stable brands. Most cases come with generic 300-350W PSUs that don't actually output 350W and certainly don't give enough amps or wattage to the 12v and 5v rails.
 
I've had a similar problem, it was caused by lack of voltage to the CPU. The temps were ok, like 42 deg at 2.4, I went for 2.5 at 1.85v and it would go into windows and just reboot after a little while, there wasnt any load either, it once happened when I clicked the close button on an explorer window.

Check your bios and voltages, it could even be your cooling
 
Could it be my PSU? Can it happen all of a suddenly, like one day it was working and the next day it's causing problems?

I have a 350watt. Not sure of the brand, just reading it off my reciept.

I am finally getting error messages now. I get a blue screen saying "If this is the first time you get this error, restart your computer.... if you get this error message again, please chkdsk /f etc. etc.

error: X00c0c00 something like that."

I did a surface scan on my HD and no problems appear. At first I thought it was a ram problem. This is my only computer I can use to get online as of now.

Thanks
 
Could be a driver problem and instead of getting a BSOD Windows is restarting.

Right-click My Computer > Goto Properties
Under the Advanced Tab click Settings under 'Startup and Recovery'
Uncheck automatically restart.
 
Originally posted by Andrew87
Could be a driver problem and instead of getting a BSOD Windows is restarting.

Right-click My Computer > Goto Properties
Under the Advanced Tab click Settings under 'Startup and Recovery'
Uncheck automatically restart.
Click to expand...

Yeah I have done that, but instead of it restarting periodically, I get random blue screen error messages and constant freezing. Like: x00c00c or something like that.
 
To check your memory use Memtest86


When it BSOD what are your stop codes "STOP 0x?"
Are they the same all the time or different.

Luck.........:D
 
wow, it's been 80 minutes my comp's been on, no crashes or errors =)

I went to BIOS and loaded the fail-safe defaults. Don't know how much longer the computer could keep running. Last time it was set to the fail-safe defaults, it held for a good hour without a BSOD
 
Well, it's crashing again. But now I written down the error message. I had to restart my computer 50 times to get it working and on the internet.

"STOP: 0x00000050 (xc103600c, 0x00000000 0x8056a6ED, 0x0000000)

Problem caused by ACPI.sys

ACPI.sys - Address F850A0F9 base at F84E9000 DateStamp 3b7d8550"

I got this error message about 1 jillion times within the last hour. During when windows was loading, after I logon to Windows, and while surfing the internet. It's insanely unstable now and can crash anytime. Thanks.
 
Aha!

The error is being caused (supposedly) by a file that controls the power saving functions of your computer ie turning the monitor off after so many minutes

Go into BIOS and disable ACPI or power management.

Also go into windows, click start > control panel > power options.

make sure everything is set to never.


i think this should help. if not, im guessing you need a bigger psu. i had a problem where clicking shutdown would just make it reboot and load again, changed psu and it was fine

how many watts is your psu?
 
I found out what the problem was. It had something to do with XP and ACPI compability. When I reformatted my HD for the 9th time, and installed win98, I had no problems. I did some research on my own and *think* I might have solved the problem.

During the installation of XP, I had to press F5 to enter a menu. Then I had to select ACPI. It was some complex problem involving around HAL, ACPI, and Windows XP. I think that solved the problem.

But, now I'm getting random BSoDs. One of them had to do with win32k.sys
SOME of the Stop errors I recorded was 0x00000050, 0x00000080?, and others I don't recalled.

I came to the conclusion that these errors are software-related. My hardware seems perfectly fine. Ran perfectly and was stable in Win 98, did ram test, no errors, and no overheating. My room is extremely cold and the computer runs at a cool 79 F and it's not overclocked (set at the lowest speed possible).
 
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