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Random restarts

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I am having problems with random restarts. Its just like I reach over and hit reset button. I am running the latest drivers with all my hardware on XP Pro SP2. If anyone has any ideas of anything I could be missing let me know. System is not overheating. My CPU and GPU are sitting at 26*C and 36*C at idle. Memtest passed on ram with 0 errors. System is not overclocked

Biostar TForce 520-a2+
AMD Windsor 5200x2 2.6ghz(no ocing done)
G Skill ddr2-800 2gb
MSI Radeon 3850 256mb
Antec Sp500 PSU
Xion Onyx case
Maxtor sata 3.0 160gb

Using on board realtec audio and realtec gigabit lan.

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Could be the psu.

Write this on cd/floppy & boot it up. If the pc still restart in dos, something is screwy.

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

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My bet's on the PSU or RAM.

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Ram test 100% ok with Memtest 2.0 from above. I just noticed that I still had Windows set to auto reboot on system fault. I just disabled that so next time it happens i may just get a BSOD. If i do I will post a picture of it.

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