Recent content by tomo57

Thanks for your interest. A number of people on other forums mentioned PSU as the most likely cause of the problem. Mine is a Macron 300W unit. I swapped it with the 300W unit out of my other system and it behavesd exactly the same way even after I disconnected all of the non-essential h/w. So I...

Thanks for the tips. I've tried another known 300W power supply and it behaved exactly the same way so I guess I can rule that one out. I have no way of testing the RAM, the computer re-boots long before I can complete a run of Memory Doctor. At best the system will run for a minute or so, at...

I built the following system a week ago: MSI KT3 Ultra 2 Athlon XP 1700 Retail Retail Heat Sink and Fan 256MB PC2700 RAM MSI G4 Ti4200 64MB WD 60GB 7200rpm HD Windows 98SE It performed flawlessly for a week. CPU temp around 40 at idle, no higher than 48 under load. Today it?s totally unstable...

I built the following system a week ago: MSI KT3 Ultra 2 Athlon XP 1700 Retail Retail Heat Sink and Fan 256MB PC2700 RAM MSI G4 Ti4200 64MB WD 60GB 7200rpm HD Windows 98SE It performed flawlessly for a week. CPU temp around 40 at idle, no higher than 48 under load. Today it?s totally unstable...