Automatic System restart

[screenburn]

I have a Shuttle Ak31a motherboard with the kt226a chipset with an athlon xp 1800 processor and an Ati all-in-wonder radeon graphics card (AGP). my delema is that my system wants to restart its self at the drop of a hat. i have checked for possible voltage drops on my motherboard and also for software and bios issues. i am completely stumped has anyone else had this problem or know of a solution i am currently running in 4x agp mode.

 

[kief]

Possible causes:

Bad RAM (or too aggressive settings in BIOS)
Bad power supply

Those are the most common hardware reasons for random reboots.

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[o1die]

I would change your memory settings to case = 2.5 and ddram command = 2T ( if using more than 1 stick of ddram ). That should help alot. I had the same problems with my ak31a.

 

[Tiberius13]

My computer did random restarts from April of last year through January of this year...

I finally got a new stick of ram and put it in and Voila! All problems gone... I was then able to go back to the place I bought the machine and have them swap the bad stick for me (and I could have returned the 'test' stick to Future Shop which has a 30 day return policy) I probably could have just gone to the place I bought the machine and had them swap the RAM in the first place, but initially they said something like, "Leave the computer with us for a week and we'll sort it out." I didn't want to be without my computer for a week, so I put up with the crashing for almost a year and then tried the RAM fix without involving them. At least when I did finally take it in to be fixed I could tell them Exactly what was wrong so it took just 10 minutes at the store.

.... I guess you now know what my advice is...

Good luck!

PS - I obviously have assumed that you aren't overclocking your current RAM. If you are, first try it at normal settings as not all RAM will overclock and be stable.

<font color=purple><b>You have just proven that signature advertising works!</b></font color=purple> <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Tiberius13 on 03/20/02 10:24 AM.</EM></FONT></P>