Computer acting weird, mostly random restarts

[duragezic]

Lately my computer has just been crappy. I've been capturing videos and viewing them and it restarts half the time! Usually this one video I captured all of a sudden pretty much everytime I load it the computer restarts. And just now after I captured a video, looked it for a bit, then when I hit the X, computer restarts. And when I Full Screen a video I just captured, it changes to 76hz (from my standard 85hz desktop) and is kinda weird because I can't right click anymore to stop the Full Screen or select other options, and I need to alt-tab out to get back to everything because I'm basically stuck when I full screen it. It's only doing it to the videos I just captured, and not the mpg captures I did, nor any divx movies and I had, and the exact same divx captures I did before never did that... And finally, I load up IE, chilling, and a black screen just kinda comes up all of a sudden. It was almost like one of those cheesy transitions, where the black went from top to bottom and covered the screen very quickly and after that I couldn't do anything. No ctrl-alt-del or any response, yet my mouse cursor was still there. And finally, my monitor sometimes doesn't come out of standby and I need to restart for it to.

WTF is up???

 

[xQuiKsiLveR]

What OS do you guys have? If you have XP try disabling Automatically Restart, found under right click My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery Settings> then uncheck Automatically Restart.

 

[duragezic]

Running Win2k. I dropped my cpu speed down to 1.2ghz (stock) in case that little overclocking or heat was the problem, but it still did it.

And it has also restarted randomly in Medal of Honor a couple times.

Oh and since I posted this message first earlier today, it has randomly restarted 2 or 3 times... :|

edit: Oops dumb me, there is the same option in Win2k as the one you said. I'll try that.

 

[xQuiKsiLveR]

Do you have the latest drivers for your video card, not to mention the latest drivers for everything else, including the BIOS?

 

[WageSlave]

Ok, I had similiar problems in WIN2k, and it turned out to be memory. I fudged around with the ram, and realized that there was some problem there. I droped it down to cas3 and it worked fine.... hope that helps

 

[Rallispec]

a lot of times, restarts are the result of an underpowered power supply? do you have at least a 300 watt PS?

but the weird monitor problems make it seem like its not a powersource problem.. i'd say reinstall all the latest drivers.

 

[EJ]

Try bumping your cpu voltage up a notch.


EJ

 

[duragezic]

I have just about the latest drivers for my videocard (I think there was just some new betas released but I don't upgrade EVERYTIME a new beta comes out).

I have two sticks of CAS2, PC133 Crucial memory.

I have a 300W power supply, and a pretty light load actually as far as number of devices.

I have the Via 4.37 Final 4in1s, and a fairly new KK266 BIOS. I could try updating that to the newest one.

When I dropped it down to 1.2ghz, I dropped the voltage to 1.75 (from 1.85) and it still did it so I put it back to 1.85 (what I have it for when I'm running 1.3ghz) and still did it so I don't think it's the overclocking so I put it back up.