Employee Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Sorry for the out of place title, but it gets the point across. I built my computer about a year to a year and a half ago, since than it has had problems with rebooting randomly. I fixed my video drivers, (thinking this was the problem) I bought a new heat sink (Now thinking heat was the problem), and a fan controller for watching heat. Now that I have ruled those out I shall give you my specs AMD Atholon 64 Processor 3000+ 1.99ghz (Meant to be 2?) 1 GB of PC 3200 RAM (I might be off on the 3200 part) A Radeon 9800 PRO Shuttle AN50 socket 754 Motherboard 6 Fans meant for cooling 2 on heat sink Ultra Fan Commander Western Digital hard drive (WDCAC26400B) 80 gig I think I have scanned for viruses and spyware. Any Help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Did you scan for windows? Windows is the most common cause for random restartings (Is that a word?). Tell windows not to automaticly restart after BSOD and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Sorry to say this, but a mate of mine had a very similar setup, and a very similar problem. We upgraded the cooling, power supply, reinstalled windows many times, swapped the ram, upgraded the bios/firmware on everything in site and even changed the hard disk. We eventually gave up and he got a new PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Arg so......Ditch the computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Nah, try running linux on it, make it do something fairly intesive. If it falls over in the same maner it might just be duff. Is there anything that cause crashes specifically? In my mates case it was gaming. If it can't run windows fine, and its your main box, and your not interested in going over to linux 100% you *may* have to get a new box, but at this stage its probally fixable. BTW sparda, it isn't windows thats responsible for the crashes (points to box thats been up since christmass, running windows), its more likely the shit that gets installed on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Got the latest chipset drivers? Also, try doing this: Right-click "My Computer" ( Not my my computer, your my computer ;) ) and click Manage Expand Event Viewer, then Application Right-click Application and click View > Filter Uncheck everything but Error and click OK Read the error reports, often times they contain a link to more information on the MS KB which can help you fix your problem or at least lead you in the right direction. Hope that helps, Darren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolations2525 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 This might be helpful but I dont know, I had the same problem, I checked all my hardware, software and things over and over again. So to start with the basics, I removed on peice of hardware at a time. and in doing so, I found out that I had a hard drive going bad and that was the cause of my problem, and I have not had ever sence that. (also a custom built computer, with a use hard drive) But in all, that might have not been the cause, but for me, that is was it was. But maybe try geting a new or used hard drive and see if that is the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Darren I did as you said, VaKo I would go linux it looks awesome but the problem I run into is that I don't know how it works really. I also wouldn't know which distro I would like to run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phiberoptik Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 what is the size of your power supply, and what brand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 My power supply I changed once, it was a 450 wat. Now it is a 350 watt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Might be worth giving that thing some more juice. Say 500watt? (BTW you don't need to install linux to test with it, just run a Live CD that will boot of a CD rom. That way, if it crashes in linux you know its a hardware issue. And if you hate linux you can throw the CD in the road once your done testing, and go back to windows.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phiberoptik Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Might be worth giving that thing some more juice. Say 500watt? second that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 It definitely could be power, but if you've changed that then it's less likely the problem. Try this: Go to System Properties (R-click on My Comp and choose properties, (or [WinKey]+[Pause|Break]) Click the Advanced tab Under the Startup & Recovery section, Click Settings Then uncheck the Automatically Restart box then hit Ok as much as you need to. Depending on the problem, that may give you a horrible, horrible BSOD instead of just blindly restarting. That may help you to diagnose what's happening. For as many things that could be causing this (and there's a lot of possibilities), I've narrowed it down to a just, plain dead motherboard on at least a couple machines in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 I did that already, It still restarts with no BSOD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Does it just restart when you load games? Think its a power issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 It restarts during games, while web browsing,while writing text documents, and while talking on Instant Messanger. So pretty much doing anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phiberoptik Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 AMD Atholon 64 Processor 3000+ 1.99ghz (Meant to be 2?) 1 GB of PC 3200 RAM (I might be off on the 3200 part) A Radeon 9800 PRO Shuttle AN50 socket 754 Motherboard 6 Fans meant for cooling 2 on heat sink Ultra Fan Commander Western Digital hard drive (WDCAC26400B) 80 gig I think now its not clear to me if u are runing dual procs or one proc so i am going to consider this as one proc. with the base system from some of the research that i did i found that your base system ( proc.mobo,ram hdd and cpu fan) is not using more power then what the ps u have if it is a true rating. now as for your vid card it requires 150 watts of power on its own rail ( its own molex connector with nothing else on that line from the ps) if you look in your manual it should be in there ( i own the same card). with the vid card in use it will put you over your the rating of the ps at 350 watts along with the fans and the fan controler. i would suggest getting a 500 watt ps so that u have room to grow into it ie add another hdd, get a newer vid card. make sure you are getting what you pay for. read the spect of the ps if you buy a new one make sure it is w/e watts the packaging says it is. links great explanation on ps and what system use http://www.silentpcreview.com/article28-page1.html addtional explaination but its out date http://www.pcguide.com/ref/power/sup/outputSystem-c.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 You're not really Phiber Optik, are you (that is Mark Abene)? Stealing someone else's name is a bit lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Bora Horza Gobuchul? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 That isn't a real person. I wondered if you were a Iain Banks reader or a T.S. Elliot fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Bit of both to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phiberoptik Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 You're not really Phiber Optik, are you (that is Mark Abene)? Stealing someone else's name is a bit lazy. yea i stole it like it was never his to confuse what other point would there be to editing something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 well copying a name implies that said person ( mark abene) had it be for i, and not knowing who mark abene is ( should i?) i cant really copy him cant i.thanks for asking and stating i was lazy. also if its not copyrighted it is not stealing. lol Very Happy Well I wasn't originally going to say lazy, I was going to say shitty, but I thought that sounded too harsh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Abene Edit: What was the point in that edit? yea i stole it like it was never his Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 ps Ps = ? (Agian, sorry, I'm new too computer terms really.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Not sure what context that was in and he seems to have edited that away now, but could it just be the latin PS, i.e. post scriptum? Edit: Oh right, in one of his earlier posts, duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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