Re: Spontaneous reboot

"al" <alistairlee99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 6, 10:31 am, "TMack" <aonp82REM...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Mike" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I recently upgraded my (nForce4) system to an Opteron 185
(basically a relabelled Athlon X2 at 2.6GHz) and 2x1GB of Crucial
DDR RAM. Also added a Geforce 7900GS.
Now, every few days my computer will either bluescreen or reboot
outright. Only occasionally and I can't reproduce it yet, but it's
definitely happening. My first guess was maybe the power supply
can't take the load - but it's a good (Tagan) 380W unit and
according to a Maplin power meter my system never uses more than
200W, even during gaming.

Was just wondering whether you could suggest any other causes for
this sudden rebooting? Ran Memtest for 2 passes and it came up
error free.

Thanks for any pointers....
Mike

Firstly - what does the bluescreen actualy say? These BSODs
sometimes actually provide useful information about why the computer
has stopped working. Set it up NOT to reboot on BSOD. Open your
system properties, click the advanced tab and then the settings
button under startup and recovery. Uncheck 'Automatically Restart'
and OK all of the open windows. Next time a stop error is generated
you should be able to see it. Make a note of what it says and then
go googling.

All kinds of possible reasons. It could be the PSU. The power
rating is irrelevant if the unit itself is faulty in some way. Then
there is the possibility of a fault in the motherboard. You have
upgraded to more powerful components that draw more current, which
may be stressing the motherboard's circuitry, revealing a previously
dormant fault. It may also be a fault with either the new cpu or
the new graphics card. It may also be a software conflict. The
only way to tell will be selective substitution - try it with the
old cpu, the old graphics card, another psu, a different HD with a
new windows installation etc and see if the problem disappears.
However, as it is such an infrequent problem you may have major
problems in tracking it down.

--
Tony
'04 XL1200C, '95 LS650
OMF#24

Hi
Try running it with 1 piece of memory, if it fails then try with the
other part, if it still fails it almost certainly rules out the
memory, Then you can maybe try swapping cpu etc.
Al

Try replying to the OP, he's the one with the problem - and as he has run
metest86 twice and found no errors it is very unlikely that the memory is
faulty.

--
Tony
'04 XL1200C, '95 LS650
OMF#24


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