Re: New Build Keeps Rebooting

Bill Woessner wrote:
I put this build together 2 days ago. It starts up and will run for a
little while. But it reboots seemingly randomly. Initially, I
thought it was overheating. But when I check the CPU temp after
reboot, it's always in the 40-50C range.

Here's the build:

Cooler Master Centurion 5 case
Fortron AX450-PN power supply
MSI K9N4 Ultra-F motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Brisbane) CPU
WinTec AMPX 1GB DDR2-800 DIMM
Western Digital 160 GB SATA hard drive
Sony/NEC 18x SATA DVD burner
Sapphire Radeon x1950 Pro (PCI-E)

I took everything apart and put it back together. Didn't help. I
upgraded the BIOS. Didn't help. I adjusted the CPU and RAM voltage
settings. Didn't help. At this ponit, I'm totally stumped. Maybe
the power supply might not be beefy enough to handle the graphics
card?

I know the Brisbane cores have to use odd clock multipliers. Is it
possible that this motherboard has trouble with the Brisbane core?
One NewEgg reviewer suggested the BIOS doesn't know how to set the
voltage for the Brisbane core, which is why I set it manually.

Any advice? I appreciate any help you can give me. Also, if anyone
has experience with NewEgg's return policy, I'd like some advice on
that. I suspect I might be returning the whole mess.

Thanks in advance,
Bill

I had an Athlon 64 system that rebooted all the time and I happened to have some RAM that I had bought without knowing it was overclocking RAM and it didn't work on a dual core system I had built but when I put it in the Athlon 64 machine it started working like a charm and has never given me any trouble since. When I called up Kingston they told me that the RAM I had been sold was mainly used for builders who liked to overclock. I have never overclocked and only tried the RAM on a hunch.
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