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Hello group,
Like the subject title says my computer is still restarting randomly. This
is my third time posting about this problem. Some of the possible problems
people said were, bad ram, bad video card (or drivers), and the PSU. Well, I
ran microsoft's memory test and Memtest86 and they both couldn't find any
errors w/ the ram. Next I switched the video card w/ a friend of mine, my
computer still restarted. Then the more I thought when it happens it did
sound like a power problem. (Sometimes it restarts when I access my 2nd
HDD). So just recently I bought a new 510W PSU from pc power and cooling
(they make very good PSU's). The first day I put it in no problems I thought
alright its fixed, I was wrong. The next day it restarted three times within
an hour. I'm about to use my computer as a paper weight! Any ideas that I
can try? Some people have said its overheating, its not, I keep track of the
CPU and system temp, and they are not even close to overheating. Could it be
a software problem, I've looked at event viewer after a restart, no errors,
I've ran Dr. Watson, no errors, and I have "automatic restart on errors"
turned off. One thing that I've noticed but I but know if this is the
problem, is that there are five IRQ #'s that are shared by two different
resources. Anyways any help would be appeciated.
Thanks, John
Here is my system:
P4 2.6ghz
1 Gig of crucial ram ( 2@ 512 sticks)
Tyan s5101 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9200 Video card (current drivers from website)
510 Watt PSU (from pc power and cooling)
2- HDD (both maxtor (E)IDE 1-40gig, 1-10gig)
1- Toshiba DVD-ROM
1- Yamaha CD-RW
1-floppy drive
1- card cooler (plugs into PCI slot, cools video card)
1- PCI to USB card adapter
Hello group,
Like the subject title says my computer is still restarting randomly. This
is my third time posting about this problem. Some of the possible problems
people said were, bad ram, bad video card (or drivers), and the PSU. Well, I
ran microsoft's memory test and Memtest86 and they both couldn't find any
errors w/ the ram. Next I switched the video card w/ a friend of mine, my
computer still restarted. Then the more I thought when it happens it did
sound like a power problem. (Sometimes it restarts when I access my 2nd
HDD). So just recently I bought a new 510W PSU from pc power and cooling
(they make very good PSU's). The first day I put it in no problems I thought
alright its fixed, I was wrong. The next day it restarted three times within
an hour. I'm about to use my computer as a paper weight! Any ideas that I
can try? Some people have said its overheating, its not, I keep track of the
CPU and system temp, and they are not even close to overheating. Could it be
a software problem, I've looked at event viewer after a restart, no errors,
I've ran Dr. Watson, no errors, and I have "automatic restart on errors"
turned off. One thing that I've noticed but I but know if this is the
problem, is that there are five IRQ #'s that are shared by two different
resources. Anyways any help would be appeciated.
Thanks, John
Here is my system:
P4 2.6ghz
1 Gig of crucial ram ( 2@ 512 sticks)
Tyan s5101 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9200 Video card (current drivers from website)
510 Watt PSU (from pc power and cooling)
2- HDD (both maxtor (E)IDE 1-40gig, 1-10gig)
1- Toshiba DVD-ROM
1- Yamaha CD-RW
1-floppy drive
1- card cooler (plugs into PCI slot, cools video card)
1- PCI to USB card adapter