Author Topic: Win XP and Spontaneous Reboots (Read 664 times)

Chairboy · « **Reply #15 on:** September 21, 2003, 12:30:48 AM »

Something else to try is to go into the BIOS and lower your AGP from 4x or 8x to 1x. That might help if it's a video card stability issue.

Reschke · « **Reply #16 on:** September 21, 2003, 07:43:29 AM »

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Originally posted by MetaTron
I can tell you its not temperature and its not memory either. It may be power supply related but how would I know? The system runs fine until Im online.

If you have a second power supply that you know for sure is good then us it. I always try to keep 1 brand new one in a box for just such a problem. I have never had a power supply last over a year or two at the most. But then I leave my system one 24/7/365 and am always pushing it had with work.

MetaTron · « **Reply #17 on:** September 21, 2003, 11:03:03 AM »

I dont have a seperate power supply available.

I tested each DIMM card separately and got flawless results. When I tested them together I get the same results, but I let the test run overnight and I got errors. Any idea what that means? Does this indicate a voltage problem?

I have checked for temperature problems and nothing is running hotter than 86F (30C). AGP settings dont make any difference.

Chairboy · « **Reply #18 on:** September 21, 2003, 11:24:26 AM »

How do you 'know' it isn't the power supply? How did you verify it?

Try increasing the core voltage a little bit, that helped me once (in the BIOS).

AKIron · « **Reply #19 on:** September 21, 2003, 11:53:51 AM »

You have two sticks of memory right? Have you tried running with just one until it crashes and then tried it again with just the other stick?

AKIron · « **Reply #20 on:** September 21, 2003, 12:37:47 PM »

Something else to consider, I've seen hard drives cause this problem too. It is more rare than the other things mentioned though.

MetaTron · « **Reply #21 on:** September 21, 2003, 03:04:42 PM »

I finally found the problem in the BIOS of all places. The BUS speed is 266Mhz with this CPU and the DIMMs frequency is 400, but it should be set to 266 also. The BIOS automatically adjusts to 400, which wont work.