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I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the motherboard and perhaps partially the OS.
I'm using a VIA EPIA 800AG (Samuel 2 @ 800 MHz) Motherboard running Windows 2000, 1 GB RAM and 40 GB SSD, plus a CD Drive. It's a pretty old motherboard, but it's never been used until now so it's technically still pretty new.
It seems whenever the system is under heavy CPU loads or perhaps reading a lot of data from the SSD, it will just instantly restart with no warning. Sometimes I can't even get past the login screen without it suddenly restarting. I'm pretty sure it's not a heat problem because I did leave it off for several hours before I tried turning it on again and it still instantly restarted right after logging in.
Is there a reason this is happening? Is the motherboard not getting enough power (I'm using a mini-itx power supply since it is a mini-itx motherboard). Or is the CPU really overheating that quickly? It doesn't seem to be a problem with Windows 2000 itself. I'm trying to use this computer as a low power FTP server, but it's useless to me if I can't keep it on.
This problem happened more frequently after I installed Avast! Antivirus free edition. In fact, whenever I try to run CPU-Z, it will instantly restart the system every time. That makes me think that perhaps whenever an application tries to access low level hardware features, the CPU rejects it and restarts. I looked in the BIOS to see if there was any kind of setting related to this, but the only thing that I've never seen before in a BIOS was a Virus Alert which I believe only happens pre-boot. If anyone has any solution or workaround to this, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
I'm using a VIA EPIA 800AG (Samuel 2 @ 800 MHz) Motherboard running Windows 2000, 1 GB RAM and 40 GB SSD, plus a CD Drive. It's a pretty old motherboard, but it's never been used until now so it's technically still pretty new.
It seems whenever the system is under heavy CPU loads or perhaps reading a lot of data from the SSD, it will just instantly restart with no warning. Sometimes I can't even get past the login screen without it suddenly restarting. I'm pretty sure it's not a heat problem because I did leave it off for several hours before I tried turning it on again and it still instantly restarted right after logging in.
Is there a reason this is happening? Is the motherboard not getting enough power (I'm using a mini-itx power supply since it is a mini-itx motherboard). Or is the CPU really overheating that quickly? It doesn't seem to be a problem with Windows 2000 itself. I'm trying to use this computer as a low power FTP server, but it's useless to me if I can't keep it on.
This problem happened more frequently after I installed Avast! Antivirus free edition. In fact, whenever I try to run CPU-Z, it will instantly restart the system every time. That makes me think that perhaps whenever an application tries to access low level hardware features, the CPU rejects it and restarts. I looked in the BIOS to see if there was any kind of setting related to this, but the only thing that I've never seen before in a BIOS was a Virus Alert which I believe only happens pre-boot. If anyone has any solution or workaround to this, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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