Random rebooting... expected fix was seemingly incorrect.

Maleficus04

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A few days ago, my PC started randomly rebooting. I looked all over and asked friends what they thought the problem was and the overwhelming response was "hard drive failure." I first did some virus scans to make sure I hadn't picked anything up recently and I couldn't find anything.

So, I went over to a friend's house whose dad has tons of spare hardware, and decided to format and install windows 7 on a spare hard drive he had. As soon as I got everything set back up with the new OS and newish hard drive, I started working on setting up drivers. Very shortly after I began, it rebooted again. It did the same a, again, a few minutes ago.

I did a memtest and it's saying that my RAM is fine. I just recently replaced my PSU, so I don't think it's that. Not to mention, problems with those usually cause power offs, rather than reboots, so far as I've heard/experienced. So, I'm not sure what to do at this point. I guess it could be a faulty motherboard or wire, I just don't know what to check for at anymore; I'm kind of overwhelmed. Any suggestions people could offer would be really appreciated, as I'd like to get this fixed without having to spend a lot of money on new hardware if I can help it. Thanks in advance.
 
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I actually found my problem. It was a combination of a corrupt memory stick causing the pc not to boot at all, and a corrupt BIOS causing it to randomly reboot. I removed the RAM stick and flashed a newer version of BIOS onto my system and everything has been working fine since then.

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I think I may have figured it out. I think it was an unstable CPU overclock. It had been working for several months, but I just started talking to a friend about his doing the same thing. I've since set it back to stock speed and it hasn't rebooted again. I'll have to use it for a bit to be certain, but so far it's working in ways it hadn't been before.



Edit: Well, that worked well for about half a day. It recently reset, again, but now won't even boot up properly. It doesn't give any kind of beep notifications and just sits there with the drives running and nothing showing up on screen. I don't know if the PSU is dying (again...) or if it's something else. The most progress I've made on it was by removing the CMOS battery and letting it sit for a while. I tried it several times, for different lengths of time and on one occasion it booted up and got all the way to the desktop, where it rebooted and hung, again, shortly after.
 

Maleficus04

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Well, I have no idea what to do. I can occasionally get the PC to start and get into my desktop, but it still has the random rebooting going on, so I can't really do much of anything while on it.
 

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Buddy i feel your pain i have that exact issue restarts just when it wants
recently had it at a pc shop the wanted to replace everything from MB
to GPU and ram but all checks out in bench marks so even they are stumped
i would love for someone to post a solve for this as it is grinding my neither regions
now!
it is just to random to be hardware and i have done the hd swopping much like you expieriancing the occasional sucess and thinking i got it sorted but no the ruddy thing keeps on doing as it see's fit mine even does the repair windows thing from time to time.
If anyone smart is out there PLEASE HELP....
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Maleficus04

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I actually found my problem. It was a combination of a corrupt memory stick causing the pc not to boot at all, and a corrupt BIOS causing it to randomly reboot. I removed the RAM stick and flashed a newer version of BIOS onto my system and everything has been working fine since then.
 
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