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Rebooting with a Stable System?

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jayjaya29

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Ok, I've had a bit of a problem since my last reformat. Whenever I am doing something that puts a bit of a load on the system, my comp restarts. Its like a "click!", screen goes black, and I restart.

This problem is with the computer in my sig. I am stable(ran Prime95 and looped 3dmark01 for a whole day) with no reboots.

The times I normally reboot are when I am watching videos from my harddrives, playing games(such as ET and UT2K4), running SETI@home, and occasionally just while talking to friends on AIM.

First I thought it would be my PSU, maybe one of my cables are loose, but no, everything is tight and in place.

My rails are a bit low, that worries me, but I've never had any problems with my PSU before. Here are my rails. The MBM5 ones where recorded while underload for about 15 minutes.

Bios readings:
+5V 4.94V
+12v 11.67V
-5v -5.20V
5VSB 5.53V
MBM5 readings
+3.3V 2.83V
+5V 4.95V
+12V 11.67V
-12V -7.09V
-5V -1.22v

My temps aren't that bad, although they could always get better ;)

From what people tell me, it could be a problem with WinXP, and before I reformat and install fresh, I want to see what you guys think. Thanks.
 
Powersupplies eventually go bad...I'd try a new one.
 
Well if reformat doesn't do the trick, thats most likely going to be what I am going to do. But I haven't had this power supply for a long time. Maybe a year, year and 1/2.
 
Powersupplies can also be made bad...I've seen PSU's go bad after only a couple months.
 
Sound more like a hardware problem than a software one.
Is autorestart after error turned off so you can see if its giveing you a nice BSOD.
Are you Memtest86 stable.
Turn off the overclock.
Have you checked your Event Veiwer log files to see if there isa recurring error which could be causeing the reboot.

Luck.......... :D
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Thanks.

I can't see if I'm Memtest86 stable becuase I don't have a floppy hooked up.

How do I turn autorestart after error off?

Also, how do I view the Event Viewer?

Sorry bout this, don't know too much about those suggestions. Thanks.
 
you can burn an iso of memtest... i haven't done it though... but i am going to one of these days... i just haven't had any problems with my memory and am too lazy to do it...

edit:
control panel => administrative tools => event viewer
 
Thanks scott. Hmm well the event viewer is confusing to me.

On the applications tab, the errors tell me that my program failing(usually aim.exe). But what does that tell me??

On the system tab, the error description says:

The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Click to expand...

I have no idea what that means, I have my parallel ports disabled in my bios. These errors happen once a day, I don't know what that means. But if I look at the times of the errors, I don't reboot during that time. I don't see any errors when I reboot.

Maybe the autorestart after error is rebooting me, but I don't know how to turn this off.
 
Anybody know how to turn autorestart after error off, or have any suggestions about how to go about fixing my problem?
 
System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup & Recovery -> Settings -> System Failure.
Untick Automatic restart.
That way if it BSOD's it will sit there in all its glory for you to read.

I know you dont use your parallel port but I would enable it just to see if its causeing the crashes.

I would also search and see what aim.exe isand what it does.
If you do use/ need it then see if you can remove it.

Luck....... :D
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aim.exe is AOL Instant Messenger

Any AIM version above 5.0 contains some type of spyware (don't remember what is is offhand). Use Trillian (can talk to AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, MIRC all in one program) with no adds/spyware.
 
Thanks.

I used to use Trillian, but I don't know why Aim.exe crashes when I have it open all day with no problems. I don't think aim.exe is the source of my problem since most of the reboots happen while I am gaming.

Thanks for the help, maybe I can get somewhere.

If anybody has any other suggestions please feel free to express them, I would greatly appreciate it.
 
I'd be extremely suspicious of the power supply, your 12v line does seem very low. Not to mention the fact that it's happening when you're really stressing the system (ie playing games).
 
Yeah my rails are low, but I've been told it should be alright. I will follow what AMDXP said, and try that. If this works, I will be extremely happy, this has plagued me for a while now, and its quite annoying when your playing an important match with your friends and then "click!", reboot. If it works, then I won't reformat till Winter, which will save me a lot of time and headaches. Once again, if anybody has an suggestions please do post. Thanks. :)
 
Hmm well, the thing AMDXP told me to do didn't do the trick. I'm beggining to believe my PSU is either going dead, or is just not up to what I'm doing with it.

I'm going to get a multimeter and get my acual rails, and will make a decision there.

I have my eyes on some better, more reliable PSU's.

Thanks for the help guys.
 
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