Random reboots...common problem I know

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AtomicFire

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For a few times recently my computer has been randomly rebooting...the speakers will crackle and the computer just reboots. It will do it at any time, whenever. The specs for the computer are in my sig. The only two things I can think of are the power supply ( not a very good one, Aspire, bought it because it was cheap and had lights :D), or overclocking from 2.8GHz - 3.2GHz. However, because the problem seems to occurr randomly, I have it clocked down to 2.8 right now and i'm waiting for it to crash again. The 12v rail on the power supply hovers around 11.80v. I know its within spec, but is it possible this could be causing my reboots?

When the computer comes back up, Windows sends a crash report, and it tells me its a device driver. I'm also maybe thinking its my sound card drivers (Audigy 2 Plat ZS) but its never happened before and I didn't mess with the drivers recently.

Thanks for your time.
 
Here's the important part.

AtomicFire said:
When the computer comes back up, Windows sends a crash report, and it tells me its a device driver. I'm also maybe thinking its my sound card drivers (Audigy 2 Plat ZS) but its never happened before and I didn't mess with the drivers recently.
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Go to Control Panel->System (or Winkey+Pause/Break) -> Advanced Tab -> Settings Button under "Startup and Recovery", and uncheck "Automatically Restart".

If it BSODs instead of restarting, see if the BSOD contains any reference to a certain VXD or SYS or whatever.
 
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