can anyone help my computer problem?

[Gillette]

i have winxp pro install on my computer! but for some reason, my computer just restarts by itself, and i've download the newest nvidia driver and i flash the new bios for my motherboard. could it be overheat on the computer that cause the restart?

 

[cholley]

could be heat, could also be an irq conflict

 

[Odoacer]

I'd say it's a power supply issue - that's usually the culprit for random reboots. How many watts are you running?

Try putting in a new power supply (350+ w), that should work

 

[Gillette]

but when i install w2k pro, it didn't random reboot, only xp. but w2k makes my computer run slow for some reason. i ask around, many people told me that nvidia card and via chipset have conflict that will cause the computer crash. will my video card be the problem? i have 350 watt power supply

 

[Odoacer]

If you can duplicate the reboots and they're not random, then I guess it's not a powersupply issue after all.

Via chipsets are known to have issues with many types of peripherals... I didn't think nVidia cards were one of them, but I could be wrong. But I see you're using a Sound Blaster Live, and that has known conflicts with Via. I don't know how to fix that... try your sblive drivers, i but that's just a guess. There are plenty of seasoned people in these forms, hopefully one of them will drop by and solve your problem.

Good luck

 

[Gillette]

hmmm, maybe i should try my onboard sound card!

 

[CubicZirconia]

Someone tell me if I'm being stupid here, but...you could also try no soundcard for awhile to see if it fixes the problem too.

 

[cleverhandle]

If it's an IRQ problem with the Sound Blaster, moving the card to the lowest PCI slot sometimes helps. And if you mention anything else about IRQ's, Andy Hui will come around and tell you to read the FAQ, so play nice and check it out - it will make Andy feel loved and appreciated.

It would help if you could describe in more detail the circumstances under which the reboots happen - after the box has been running for a while? When sound is output? Totally random? etc. etc.

edit: typo

 

[Gillette]

well, sometime if i leave my computer idle, all the sudden i will hear the reboot noise for no reason! i guess it will b e totally random or sometimes when i play vidoe games, the computer will lock up and just reboot by itself!

 

[Gillette]

and every time i reboot, the window tells me i have to install via bus master ide driver, where can i find that? i tried everything but nothing seems to install that device

 

[Gillette]

i get this error message when my computer is reboot! 0x0000007e ( oxc0000005,oxf9e81cbe,0xf9f81bdc,oxf9e818dc) does anyone kno what that mean?

 

[Electric Amish]

Did you install the VIA 4in1 motherboard drivers?

amish

 

[Gillette]

yep

 

[Boonesmi]

you might want to run memtest86 it will test your ram (i had a bad stick of ram that caused random reboots)

 

[Gillette]

can my floppy drive be the problem? because when i run safe and load default in my bios, the floppy won't work, but when i change the bios to optimazing default, the floppy works again. and now i took out my floppy and my computer is running fine.