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[Delicious Bass]

Well, I reformated my computer about a week ago because it would randomly restart on me. Well today it did it again! I just added all my music to my computer today, I really hope thats not the problem. I was playing Neverwinter and suddenly my computer restarts!! Once windows is done loading it resarts again! and it did that about 2 more times till i just shut it off.

Seems like these things always happen to me, I'm starting to wish i didnt spend $400-$500 on a ****ing computer!

HELP PLZ

 

[blahblahblah]

Can you list your system specs? Can you also list how many watts is your power supply and who made it?

 

[CptStern]

what components do you have in your pc? sounds like a PSU problem...but it could be anything. Post your pc specs

edit: heheh, blah,blah,blah you beat by a couple of secs

 

[Delicious Bass]

PCU: Barton 2500+
MOBO: Asus A7N8X-X
RAM: 512mb ddr pc-3200
HARD DRIVE: Western Digital 80gb
VIDEO CARD: ATI RADEON 9600XT

POWER SUPPLY: 420watts (the case is made by RAIDMAX, is that who made the power supply?)

 

[blahblahblah]

Make sure your heatsink is properly attached/secured to your processor and make sure the fan is spinning. If that doesn't fix your problem, it sounds like your power supply could be faulty. 420 Watts is more than enough to properly power your computer.

 

[psyno]

Mm, I doubt it's heat. From what you've said, I would focus on graphics drivers and memory. You might try uninstalling your Radeon drivers and just using the default VGA driver and seeing if the problem remains (or, after the next time this happens, try to boot into Safe Mode instead of the normal Windows mode and see if it restarts at the login then). If I were you I'd definitely download and use a tool to test my memory, like Memtest 3.0 or DocMem 2.0.

 

[bosox188]

You sure one of your music files doesn't have a virus on it? You should maybe scan them all. Go to google and search for Stinger, it's a free virus scanner made by McAfee, works great.

 

[Delicious Bass]

thats what i was thinking, ill try scanning my music for a virus

 

[poseyjmac]

temperatures please

so many of my friends' computer restart randomly because they don't have adequate cooling. how do i know? i stick one of my honeywell fans on the side of their case and no more restarts.

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html

get motherboard monitor, select your motherboard, and tell us your CPU temperature most importantly.

 

[mortiz]

Just try fiddling your BIOS settings, your CPU Heat-Throttle might be set too low or something.

 

[SidewinderX]

sounds you like you have the virus... I forget what it is called... it was big a while ago.. not sasser...

 

[bosox188]

sounds you like you have the virus... I forget what it is called... it was big a while ago.. not sasser...

I can't remember either, but there was one that cause the computer to restart after 2 minutes. "Not sasser..." was it blaster?

 

[Fletch]

Best to make sure it isn't the sasser though right?? Here's a link to the tool that gets rid of it. Wasn't random restarts one of the symptoms of the sasser??

 

[Maxi]

Best to make sure it isn't the sasser though right?? Here's a link to the tool that gets rid of it. Wasn't random restarts one of the symptoms of the sasser??

Yeah, of blaster too.

But when it does that it popups a window where it says that it will restart your computer in one minute. And you can't miss that window.

I bet 5$ on that it's a heat issue.

 

[Alig]

Haha i remember having that virus that pops a window up and says its going to restart...that was annoying :angry:

You sure you are'nt pressing the 'Power' button on your keyboard j/k

Check the temperatures of your cpu and check your BIOS for cpu-shut off- temp controller or something, make sure it isnt at like 50c...it does'nt give a warning either, it will just turn off once it hits that temp.

 

[B_MAN]

disable automatic restarts in 'startup and recovery'

 

[poseyjmac]

and if you ever get that shutdown window, just type 'shutdown -a' in run window to stop it.

 

[Maxi]

and if you ever get that shutdown window, just type 'shutdown -a' in run window to stop it.

But after that you can't shutdown normally, you have to either reset using the reset button on your computer or holding the power button for a few secs.

 

[poseyjmac]

But after that you can't shutdown normally, you have to either reset using the reset button on your computer or holding the power button for a few secs.

yep, and pci slots are usually white

 

[Moto]

Have Microsoft scan your computer for Sasser just to be safe:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.mspx

If it turns out that your computer has the Sasser worm, download this tool from Microsoft to remove it:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...7e-1b6b-4fc3-90d4-9fa42d14cc17&displaylang=en

The sasser worm makes your computer shut off and stuff. You probably don't have that, there is another worm that does a similar thing, I don't know its name though.

 

[Delicious Bass]

thanks for all the help, ill go try this out right now

 

[Delicious Bass]

Mb Temperature: 87 F
Cpu Temperature: 125 F

EDIT: OH, no virus

 

[psyno]

That's 52° C for the CPU (Fahrenheit temps don't make much sense to me in relation to computers...).

I hope that's not an idle temp. Tell us that's under load.

 

[Delicious Bass]

ah, so i take that as i need more fans?

i got those temps from the bios, nothing else was running. i had no clue my computer was so hot, its got 2 fans in the back and a fan on the side

 

[psyno]

What kind of cooling do you have for the CPU?

 

[Delicious Bass]

cooling? all i know that cooling my computer is those three fans

 

[Maxi]

I think it's time for a new heatsink.

 

[poseyjmac]

if you want to try a quick cooling solution. you could buy one of those small room fans from most any store, crank it up and put it facing your cpu. one of my friends does that because if he doesn't his PC restarts all the time in games.

 

[Bio]

And if all this dosent work you simply kill the one who sold you the computer

 

[Delicious Bass]

your prolly right, what do you think would be better if i bought some more fans: couple small fans or one big fan (the front of my comp has 4 slots for fans but i can also just put one big one there)

 

[Asus]

That's 52° C for the CPU (Fahrenheit temps don't make much sense to me in relation to computers...).

I hope that's not an idle temp. Tell us that's under load.

Why does that need to be under load?
52C is a perfectly fine temp for Idle.

From my experience, Athlon XP's temp does not increase that much when it goes under Load, compared to say a Pentium 4.

 

[psyno]

And from my experience 52° C is not an idle temperature for a properly cooled desktop CPU when the MB temp is under 31° C! :O

 

[Delicious Bass]

its odd cuz i have a friend with only 2 fans in his pc but his idles at about 80 F. His heatsink does have an 80mm fan on it. Should i just get a better heatsink?

 

[Maxi]

Why does that need to be under load?
52C is a perfectly fine temp for Idle.

From my experience, Athlon XP's temp does not increase that much when it goes under Load, compared to say a Pentium 4.

You need to think about the ammount of heat that the heatsink can dissipate, if the heat output of the cpu is close to it's maximum when he's at idle then when he games it will go over the maximum output that the heatsink can dissipate, so the computer overheats.

My friend had a blower CPU fan and it got clogged up with dust and otherwise sucked too. His idle temp was 50 celcious, but when he started to play temps rose to 90 degrees before his comp restarted.

its odd cuz i have a friend with only 2 fans in his pc but his idles at about 80 F. His heatsink does have an 80mm fan on it. Should i just get a better heatsink?

The shape and material and placement of finns on the heatsink is more important than the fan.