Help with Random Resets

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Ety

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My Athlon XP system died a while ago, it started having video artifacts and random restarts. (Gave me justificaton for my Apple so I didn't bother fixing it until now) So I got a new $30 video card and it got rid of the artifacts, but it still restarts without warning. I am guessing it's the PSU I was wondering if it could be anything else. I was going to build a new PC so I was thinking of buying a new PSU try it and if it fixes it I'll get another cheaper PSU for it. I was wondering if its possable for any of my components to break the PSU. :confused:

Thanks alot

BTW the PSU is a 400w Antec, CPU==2700+, Asus A7somethign mobo.
 
what type of card is your new one? did you uninstall the drivers from your old card and use driver cleaner to get everything off?, are you using the latest drivers for your card? what temps is your cpu running at?

i dont thimk its a psu problen, as antecs are usually pretty good
 
pstang said:
what type of card is your new one? did you uninstall the drivers from your old card and use driver cleaner to get everything off?, are you using the latest drivers for your card? what temps is your cpu running at?

i dont thimk its a psu problen, as antecs are usually pretty good
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The new cards an Nvidia so crappy I'm not sure. I uninstalled the drivers from control panels, but I didn't have an internet connection to get drive cleaner. All the temps seemed fine according to the Asus program.

It's been doing this with the old card, it would artifact and/or restart like it is now. So I fixed half of it. I did some sleving and I cut some connections off in the PSU and covered the ends with crimp connectors, but something could have happened I guess. Can you think of any other hardware problems that could cause it?
 
Ety said:
The new cards an Nvidia so crappy I'm not sure. I uninstalled the drivers from control panels, but I didn't have an internet connection to get drive cleaner. All the temps seemed fine according to the Asus program.

It's been doing this with the old card, it would artifact and/or restart like it is now. So I fixed half of it. I did some sleving and I cut some connections off in the PSU and covered the ends with crimp connectors, but something could have happened I guess. Can you think of any other hardware problems that could cause it?
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well if you did cut some connections on your psu that could be the source of your problem, check them out and make sure they have good connections

another thing to try is run memtest to rule out your memory as a culprit
 
this happened to my computer and it turned out to be the psu. Low and behold when I removed it from the pc, there was a brown (burnt) area around the mobo plug on on of the pins. Good thing it did not damage the rest of the mobo or the rest of the pc. It is weird but this must have been this way for a like a week before i had ruled it to be the PSU, amazing my pc worked (if you count the constant shutdowns as working), with my burnt out PSU in it. Could be ram or vid card though also.
 
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