Author Topic: Computer reboots itself at random times... (Read 330 times)

Reschke · « **on:** December 25, 2002, 10:38:16 PM »

OK for the last few days I have been battling a problem that has just started showing up. My system decides to reboot itself for no apparent reason. I have tried everything that I can think of since one message says that my Abit Siluro GeForce4 Ti4400 and the device driver was the cause. I went back to the drivers that came with the card and have run all the way to the current set of 4109 drivers from nVidia. When I still got error messages I pulled all my cards out and basically started over from scratch with a hard drive I have for testing times like this. It is a clean install of WinXP Home that is completely updated and had the last clean install on it with no errors/problems after running benchmarks on it for 24 hours.

This all started after I moved and finally got setup last Friday evening and waited on my ADSL installation to happen. I noticed my CPU temp had jumped from when I had last used the system a week before. It was not up a great deal but it was still up some. So I popped the sides and front off my case and it cooled back to normal. I attributed this to having my computer near the vent for the heater and the number of fans I have sucking in the warmer air than in the last house I lived in. Well, I started getting corrupted .exe files and I could not play IL-2 at all. I ran my virus scan from Kaspersky Labs and nothing came up.

So after just having this happen again when I was trying to uninstall a program I figured I would come here for some advice from you guys. Here is my system information in case you guys have any advice:

AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4GHz
512MB PC2100 DDR
ASUS A7V266 (updated
Abit Siluro GF4 Ti4400
Diamond MX300
3Com 905B TX 10/100
TEAC 24x10x40 CDRW
ADSL connection through a Westell modem (brand new and ethernet connection)
WinXP Home w/SP1
DX8.1
MORE FANS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT!

Thanks

Dingbat · « **Reply #1 on:** December 26, 2002, 07:08:04 AM »

It sounds like a powersuplly on the fritz..

Toad · « **Reply #2 on:** December 26, 2002, 07:22:16 AM »

Power supply possibly and also do a check on the integrity of the RAM.

Reschke · « **Reply #3 on:** December 26, 2002, 07:43:24 AM »

The power supply is the one thing I have not checked. I did finally manage to get a stable enough run this morning to roll back the driver on my video card to the 2958 version. Hopefully that is it but if not then I will start pulling stuff out again.

Thanks for the help.

214thCavalier · « **Reply #4 on:** December 26, 2002, 09:15:01 AM »

Had exactly the same problem, caused by power supply.
Started rebooting probably once a week and gradually got worse until 2 or 3 times an hour before i cured it.

Reschke · « **Reply #5 on:** December 26, 2002, 11:37:33 AM »

Well I am taking a suggestion from a buddy and I updated to the latest 4in1 drivers since I have gotten device driver problems with my Ti4400 video card when the reboot happens. If this is not the problem then I think it will be narrowed down to my power supply. I picked up a new one a little while ago just in case it started happening again.