What Is Wrong!?!

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Yea, so my PC is acting wierd, annoying at that. When I play games like Quake 4 sometimes my PC restarts, just instantly. No warnings or any type of 'blue screen of death', just restarts, literally instantly when I least expect it. Now I've checked my 3500+ and the temps are fine at about 39C idle and my 7600 GT at about 51C idle. The much I can say is my Antec 420 watt power supply was making really worrying noises lately and stinks of radiation. Sometimes I hear little sparks. My ram the Crucial ballistix DD400 at 2-2-2-5 and I hav'nt really tested them yet for temps.

MY pc has been running just fine for months until my games started to bust up like this. The motherbard Im using is the A8N-E Rev2.

The crappy power supply is the ANTEC 420 watt. I cant even find its real name on the net so it must be cheap. It orginally came with a case. But if needs be I'm more than happy to buy an Enermax Liberty 500watt.

Sorry to bore you with threads like this, but please help me out.
 
increase the processor voltage and report back. also disable automatic restarts on stop errors.
 
Falls Included said:
increase the processor voltage and report back. also disable automatic restarts on stop errors.
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By how much should I increase the voltage?
 
Ive increased the voltage to just over 1.5. System running fine, Ill test it with a game quick.
 
Ok the game was fine, but Im still not convinced because sometimes my games do get lucky and dont crash. Ill run some more apps and report back.
 
I think its the PSU, but run a stress test using Prime95, and 3dmark (any year, but 2001 loops for free), and let Prime 95 run on tourture test (max heat/power consumption), and make 3dmark loop tests overnight. If in the morning you get a plain desktop, you know its the PSU and it rebooted. Very unlikely it would just start rebooting like that from insufficient voltage, and if prime fails, and didnt reboot then the cpu isnt getting enought voltage. Unlikely however. I'd bet 5 on the Antec. Try another psu.
 
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