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Random system reboots after cold boot-up

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Limp Gawd
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My system boots up just fine after I turn it on for the first time the next day. It gets to the Windows desktop and everything is fine for a couple of minutes, then it just suddenly reboots with the screen going blank and WIndows giving no notification of shutting down. But upon the next bootup, my system runs just fine and stable for the rest of the day even when I play C&C Generals online. I have ran MemTest 3.1 and it tests perfectly. The temperature of my CPU is read in the BIOS to be around 40 degrees Celsius. It is a Pentium 4 3.0GHz w/800MHz FSB. All the voltages are set to default in the BIOS. Except I have the RAM voltages to be 2.7V becuase the Corsair RAM guys said to put them higher at 2.7VOLTS to make them more stable and that they would be fine and not be damaged at that voltage for Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR SDRAM. A few days before this started happening, when I was playing MP3 files with ATI MMC at the same time as browsing the web and working on word docs, I would get a stop error after a couple of hours. But now I am getting random reboots on a cold boot a couple of minutes after it gets to the Windows XP desktop. But after the random reboot each time, the next boot-up everything works just great with no problems. Could there be something wrong with the PSU? It seems very odd that if the PSU was faulty, that it would only happen on a cold boot-up and not more often. I have also checked in Device Manager for any resource conflicts and it tells me for all the devices that there is no resource conflicts

My system specs are as follow:

-Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard w/Intel 875P northbridge chipset
-Pentium 4 3.0GHz w/800MHz FSB
-2 *512MB DIMMs of Corsair XMS PC3200 RAM in dual channel confiuration for a total of 1GB of system RAM
-Built by ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 8X AGP video card w/128MB DDR memory
-80GB Seagate SATA HDD for OS boot drive connected to Intel 82801ER SATA RAID controller on the Intel ICH5R chipset to Port_0
-120GB Seagate SATA HDD connected to Intel 82801ER SATA RAID controller on the Intel ICH5R chipset to Port_1
-3 CD/DVD drives
-Antec TruePower 550WATT PSU

Help greatly apprectiated.
 
I really doubt its the PSU unless your overloading one of the cables but even then i would probably rule out the PSU since like you said it only does it the first time you boot up. A 300w PSU would be plenty to run your system so you have more power then you'll ever need.

Only suggestion i have is to check to make sure you dont have too many devices plugged in to one strand. You'll overpower a single strand if too much is running off of it instead of dividing up the power usage evenly.
 
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