gschultz

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I've just installed a new ASUS P4PE, 2.4 gig P4 CPU, 256K of appropriate fast RAM, NVidia Ti4200, and new power supply in my system.
Using Windows XP Home, I am getting strange random crashes. No messages, no blue screens; the system just arbitrarily reboots. This seems to be linked to activities that involve intensive HD access. For instance, I cannot complete either a chkdsk or defragmenting without crashing. Heavy duty (high video) games crash randomly, while normal low-intensity use like word processing and internet, cause no problems.
I have two HD's: an IBM Deskstar DTLA-30720 (master) and a WD Caviar 310100 (slave). Could these older drives (reformatted for the upgrade) be too slow for the fireball CPU? Any other ideas why disk access would crash the system? Thanks for any info.
 

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This sounds like a memory problem. Try running <A HREF="http://www.memtest86.com" target="_new">memtest</A>

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What is the power supply wattage. if u search the posts ull find that many people had too low wattage power supplies. since your problem only happens when doing intense things. i would deffinitly say a bad power supply. if it was memory u would have problems all the time.