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What could be causing these random reboots?

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For whatever freak reason, my power supply, motherboard and HD all failed at more or less the same time, so I got new ones and now my computer works again. Sort of.

I just did full install of Windows XP Pro on the new HD, but during the installation there were times when a message would come up stating that a certain file could not be copied. Almost all times I could hit enter to retry and it would continue on normally. However, on a few different attempts, there were different files that just would not copy and I had to hit escape to skip. (sorry, I didn't write down which file was missed). Could this just be a scratched disk?

Windows proceeded to load normally, but now it randomly reboots. No blue screen or error messages, just instant shut down.

The CPU temp as read by the bios is 75 Celcius, which seems high.

So could it be the temperature? Bad OS install? Let me know what other information I can provide that would be helpful! :)
 
75 CELCIUS!!!!!????? that is rediculous, im oc'd to 3.4 right now and im only reading 25c.... lol... make sure you fan is on and running properly, thremal paste? heat seems to be the problem here, check your bios, maybe up voltage on your ram?! thta sometimes works... umm... play around with some of the settings, and if you don't know what something is in there, PM me or just submit another reply.... we are here to help,... heh
 
It was originally applied with Arctic Silver, but when the guy changed the motherboard he didn't clean it off or anything, he just put the CPU back in with the gooped up stuff that was already on it. Could that be a major problem?

The ThermoEngine is spinning at 5800RPM.

And if you can suggest a better HSF, that's *much quieter* LOL. I will go out and buy it =P
 
you say it is a new motherboard.... maybe the sensors are screwed up, go into the bios and shut off temp sensing? also, touch the cpu itself and see if it is 200+ degrese...lol
 
trust me, if you were at 75c you wouldn't be booting up, you be lucky to get up past 34 because you are not oc'd and you have a proper cooling setup, something is wrong with your heat/shutdown option
 
It starts at about 30C and just ramps up.

I'm gonna turn it on and set my FSB to 100 and see hot hot it gets at 1Ghz.
 
alright, i'll be able to help you more when i go home and can play around in my bios
 
My computer is running stable now at 63C (as read from PC Probe not BIOS) at 1.0GHz.

So I guess it was the heat.
 
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