XP 1800+ rebooting everytime!

Pay your money take your chances, step right up who is next?

Ah a guessing game, I like games.

Overheating will force you to reboot on machines without thermal protection, check your temps and make sure your not getting over 50c

If its not overheating you will need to start switching out parts untill you find the problem. lets start cheap and point at your PSU, a common problem with AMD. This problem might be resovled with Tbred if that makes you feel any better about your POS machine.

So, was the money you saved worth the aggravation and down time, let alone any lost data from crashing?

God forbid your core is chipped, be carefull when pulling your HSF as the core is brittle and easy to destroy.

You are limited to what your mind can perceive.

Best idea is go in bios tell us what your temp is. it should be around 40 to 60c if higher take a look in side the case see if there alot of dust. If so clean it out and your temp will be lower.

Another idea is Log onto Dos useing the Windows bootup disk. See if it stays on dos for some time. If so its not the CPU its Win 98 problem and you might have to reinstall windows

IF you have win xp Use the goback before the problem happen. I had the same problem with my windows and Went back before the problem happen and everything fine now. Software can do this.

Yes it is a hit and miss type problem.

When exactly does it reboot? Does it reboot at the same point during POST every time, or does it run for an apparently random amount of time before it reboots?

If it reboots at a random time after the OS is up, I'd suspect memory first, power supply second. I'd check the temperatures and voltage rails first, just because they're the easiest potential problems to check.

Memory errors usually cause random reboots; power supply or heat problems usually cause random lockups. memtest86 can help you check the first case; Motherboard Monitor (or your BIOS system-health stats) can help you check the rest.

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Fugger, will stop that? It's not like Intel processors never have problems.

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And yes it's probably the Power Supply Unit. Cheap PSU's result in bad voltage which causes the cpu to skip pulses resulting in a severe "Heart Attach" i'll put it  .

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thanks for all! i guess it's power supply...i'll change it for 400W...about temperature...i don't think so...the temperature medium is 48 celsius..
i'll make a test with memory, to...
thanks!!

dude! I had this same problem when I first got my computer... turned out to be a bad stick of RAM in my case. I swapped the stick for another one and voila.. problem fixed.

It's worth giving that a shot to see if it fixes your problem.

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