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PC randomly reboots sometimes

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DarkCyber

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I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with an AMD XP 2800+ Barton Core cpu, a Radeon 9800 Pro AIW, 1 gig of pc3200 ram (2 512 sticks), a cdrw, a dvd burner, 2 160 gig hard drives and 2 case fans. I'm running Windows XP Pro on this pc.

My pc runs fine, but if I leave it on all the time, sometimes when I'm not around, like in the middle of the night it will reboot and then hang up on the ASUS splash screen after the bios startup screen.

I'm running an AMD certified power supply, but it's just 300 watts. Do you think the power supply could be the problem or something else causing it?

It has never rebooted when I was using the pc...gaming or anything of a power nature. It always does this when I'm not around the pc. That made me think it was a power saving thing or hibernation thing, but I've checked the power options in the control panel and I have all that turned off...no hibernation stuff is turned on either. Plus, I have the power saving options turned off int he bios as well.

Confused and need help :(

DarkCyber
 
Thanks for the link, but I don't think it's the memory. I've changed ram 3 times (upgrading) and it's done it with all the different ones I've had in there. :(

Darkcyber
 
hmm, well there is still a chance it could be your RAM, and i strongly advocate trying memtest86 overnight, and then in the morning try moving out individual components (don't forget the motherboard itself) and see if that works..

oh, and btw, have you cleaned out your case (dust-wise) lately?

oh yeah, and it may be that your thermal paste has just worn out!
 
I just recently cleaned out my case with compressed air. I will run the ram test and see.

So, no one thinks it might be an issue with the power supply then?

Thanks for the input.

DarkCyber
 
try leaving the computer on overnight with another psu if this one doesnt restart then, u have a "almost going to die psu".
 
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