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Random Restarts

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TheGreatDarkOne

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My computer keeps restarting when I click on something at random times. Usually when I'm running a lot of programs. I was nowhere near pressing the reset button. I just reformatted and upgraded too.

System Specs:
Athlon XP 2500+
Radeon 9800 Pro @ Stock Speeds w/ Omega 4.8
Albatron KX600 Pro (Via KT600 Chipset)
1GB of PDP PC3200 Ram (I just bought another 512mb stick)
Sound Blaster Live
Windows XP Professional SP 1

Before my upgrade/reformat it was the same specs just using Omega 3.10 and only 512MB of ram.
 
same here...

i'm using XP SP2...clean install....randonly restarts...

any reasons other than power supply being bad? coz i know it isnt
 
Check your Memory for errors.
Run Memtest86.

Luck....... :D
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and never assume anything is good. Even if you took it out of the box 5 seconds ago it could still be bad.

Check your event viewer to see if the error is listed in there. You may have a driver/hardware problem that is causing the comp to reboot.
 
A thermal protection event doesn't usually result in a reboot. It should completely shut off the comp to protect the hardware.
 
The CPU overheating probably wouldn't trigger such an event because it gets unstable if it gets too warm, and the point it gets unstable at is usually far lower than the point that most systems would shut it off at. Instability can very easily cause a complete reboot depending on what happens. Try Prime95, that will probably tell you if your system is stable. Anyway, get Motherboard Monitor 5 or whatever your motherboard manufacturer offers to display temperatures and take a look at those. I personally find that a complete reboot rather than crashing then rebooting is usually due to the FSB being too high (you'd be surprised how many systems advertise one thing, then are cut so close to the line that they just can't handle that high of a speed unless you keep them super-cool.)
 
I had the same problem for a few weeks on my Domain Controller. I bought a cheap Mobo+PCU package for like 29 bucks from a deal on slickdeals and popped that into a small case i had modded.

I was convinced it was overheating, but i just found out yesterday it was a bad stick of RAM. I did NOT run memtest (stupid of me), but for me it was a single bad stick of RAM that cause random reboots.
 
Ok so, I just ran MemoryTest+ 1.20 and I ran it w/ both sticks of memory in. It showed 280,000 errors from 512-1024 (i didnt c it well and i havent used this b4). The new memory was in dimm#2. So I tested it by itself. No errors. I tested the old 1. No errors. Now I'm just going to use the old 1 by itself.
 
well if you just bought the new ram the chips on the sticks are most likely not exactly the same, especially if there was considerable amount of time between the purchases. when you put it in the mobo, which slots do you put it in? try slot 1&2, that should disable dual channel mode if your motherboard supports it, as it sounds like it does, memory that doesnt match that is run in dual chanel can cuase lots of errors
 
TheGreatDarkOne said:
Ok so, I just ran MemoryTest+ 1.20 and I ran it w/ both sticks of memory in. It showed 280,000 errors from 512-1024 (i didnt c it well and i havent used this b4). The new memory was in dimm#2. So I tested it by itself. No errors. I tested the old 1. No errors. Now I'm just going to use the old 1 by itself.
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Know the story.
In my old mobo with 4x 512 megs of ram I was getting the odd random reboot.
Ran Memtest86 and got to odd error.
Ran each stick by itself no errors.
Ran them all together again = errors.
So started to play musical dimm slots.
On my sixteenth combo out of twentyfourI found the one which gave no errors.
Was stable ever since.
The only trouble was Memtest was running at one hour per Gig tested.

So try different combo's of dimms in slots.
Hopefully you will be lucky to.

Luck...... :D
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