Random shutdowns with C2D and P5W

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ARedGuitar

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So I've had this e6400 and Asus P5W for about six months by now. It works really well. I've OCed it to 3.2GHz, but I haven't touched the RAM. Anyway, I've noticed that lately my computer seems to randomly restart itself. It runs Orthos just fine and temps top out at about 57. Anyone think the OCing could have something to do with it?
 
are the restarts becoming more common? even though your build is orthos stable i would back down the overclock just a tad to see if thats the problem. might wanna run a memtest too while your at it. also what psu are you using?
 
The power supply is an 350W Antec. I'll start a memtest run and see what happens. As for the restarts, they just started a week or so ago, but they're not really more or less frequent, they're pretty random as far as i can tell.
 
I got an error running memtest. The memory address is the same for the errors, so I'm guessing something's wrong with one of my chips. One is brand new though, and this started before I added the new one, so if it is the new one that's giving me errors it's an unrelated problem. Now like I said, this just started happening very recently, but I've been using this power supply for six months, so why would it suddenly start having problems?
 
Glad you found it, still you on thin ice with that PS put it next on your shopping list, if you posted that in the power supply section they whould have gone ape shi*. LOL.
 
well even though you figured out its a memory problem, like the others said i would definitely consider getting a more powerful psu. with your current setup, the overclocking your doing, and any future upgrades you make you could definitely use more juice.
 
Thanks for all the replies and the advice. I didn't think about the PSU since I don't have that much in the computer and I OCed, but I didn't really have to overvolt anything except for the CPU and that was a reallly small amount. But oh well, I guess I'll start shopping. At least new stuff is always fun :) . Thanks again
 
ARedGuitar said:
The power supply is an 350W Antec
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oh man, let me guess it came with the case? is it rated for 55amps on the 3.3v rails? my buddy just bought an antec case with a 520w power supply that came with it, only problem was it weighed about 3oz. and it had about 75% of the rated 520watts dedicated to the 3.3v rails, which if you didnt know, is useless. this is how they call a 200watt power supply a 520.
 
oh man, let me guess it came with the case? is it rated for 55amps on the 3.3v rails?
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Haha, not too far off. 22 on the 3.3 and 5V rails, but only 10 and 15 on the 12s apparently.
 
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