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Computer restarts "randomly"

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Alright here is my problem. If I load up a game once I get into it for just a mintue or two my computer will turn off. Sometimes it even happens when I just go into my desktop setting or something random like that. I thought maybe my computer wasn't getting enough power to it and it was shutting off but I got a new power supply and it is doing it more than ever. My CPU temp seems to be rather low (50C, threshold is 97C) or so. My video card is at like 57C (threshold is 140C). I am lost at what I should do, any help? Thanks.


AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Gainward Geforce FX 5900 128MB
512MB DDR 400 RAM
ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard
450Watt Powersupply, Coolmax (New)
 
Well first you need to turn off automatic restart so you can see what error pops up.

If you do not know how to turn AR off follow these.

Go into control panel
Open System
Click on the tab advance
Under startup and recovery click on setting.
Uncheck automatic restart.


After you do that do exactly what you did before to make your system restart.
It will then show you a stop error BSOD.
 
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF213D8B BCP3 : F4DCA938
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

C:\DOCUME~1\Andrew\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER7893.dir00\Mini090804-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Andrew\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER7893.dir00\sysdata.xml

My computer restarted anyways... even with the Autorestart off. That was the error it had when I restarted it. The other part is the files to be included in the error report if I was to send it. I did the memory test, it passed 5 times.

I also had another error when I was going to restart to boot up the memtest iso.

*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0xBF8048BA, 0xF6B38C74, 0x00000000)

*** win32k.sys - Address BF8048BA base at BF800000, Date Stamp 41107f7a
 
i had an error similar to that, it was a bad stick of memory
 
I pulled out the stick of memory, put it in a different slot, and then it came up with thousands of errors in memtest and wouldn't load windows anymore. Would this conclude I should get a new stick of RAM?
 
I think that would be the general consensus here. Unless you know someone you could borrow a stick from to make sure that it is truly your ram thats bad. But if memtest is going crazy with errors... my guess is yes... memory is bad.
 
Make sure you are only testing 1 stick at a time. If you are and you are getting all those errors then it's a pretty good bet that your memory is bad.
 
Well I only have 1 stick of 512 and in its slot it has been in since I built the computer it doesn't get errors in memtest. But when I changed which slot I put it in I had tons of errors and I couldn't even load windows anymore. It's weird that it functions in the one slot besides restarting and crashing on me, but doesn't even function else where.
 
On a hunch I would say check the power supply. It could be that as your video card draws more power the PSU can't hang and browns out the other componants. This would result in the powergood signal from the PSU to the processor being disrupted which causes the processor to immediatly reboot.

The best way to check for this is to use a known good power supply, preferably in a higher wattage. Short of this you might try disconnecting other componants, for instance if you have multiple HDD's, disconnect on or two and see if you get the same result. An overloaded powersupply could cause this as well.

If you should need to buy a new powersupply PC Power & Cooling has been putting out top quality powersupplies for years.

<edit> Being the smart guy that I am I re-read the post and noticed he already tried a new power supply. I still would look twords the power as the problem. Some newer video cards recommend up to a 480 watts power supply.

Also, if your house is older bad power can come through the lines espeically if you live in an older house. A good quality UPS can fix this. Be careful though, almost any UPS you buy at the store will list a switch time which indicates that it is not a true UPS which always runs on the battery, but an SPS which conditions the power and only runs off the battery in times of outage. A true UPS will ALWAYS deliver clean power to your computer. -Back to the matter at hand, if you get flickering lights when you start up the washing machine type thing then obviously get a UPS =D
 
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