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Problem Power Supply Related?

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flagpolekilla

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Well, im doing this post for a friend of mine and need some help. I told him what i thought (Sounded like a bad PSU), i just think some better input is needed.

My friend Ian has a computer for gaming. Athlon 64 +3200 2.20 Gighertz, MSI mobo, ATI Radeon 9800XT, 2 Hard Drives (brand unknown), Audigy 2 ZS, 420 watt PSU, 1 CD drive, and a couple fans. He was playing counter strike source and decided to leave the server due to map change, he went to leave and the computer just reboot itself. He was like what...???? So it rebooted, no errors came up on windows. Then, it happened 2-3 more times, different time intervals. If anyone knows why it would just randomly reboot like that it would be of great help. Thanks all!
 
I had a similar problem with my girlfriends computer. Her computer would reboot when changing resolution, like when going from 800x600 to 1024x768. It mostly manifested itself in games, when going from within a game to the games menu or when entering a game, although it did have the occasional random reboot. A close inpsection of her graphics card revealed a surface mount resistor was ripped off from the circuit board. Your friend might have a similar problem. Perhaps you can swap out your friends graphics card with a known working good one and see if his symptoms continue.

In any case, it sounds like a hardware problem and with hardware problems the best thing to do is make educated guesses of which peice is the problem and swap them out with known good ones, and see if the problem continues.
 
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