Computer restarts, no BSOD, randomly

Gautama2

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Recently, my computer has begun to seemingly randomly restart. No BSOD, no error message, just as if you pulled the plug, put it back in, and turned it on. Frequency varies between 20 minutes to a couple hours. I don't remember installing anything new, other than the 175 WHQL drivers for the 8800GT.

I have independently stress tested my RAM, CPU, and GPU (with Memtest, Orthos, and Ati Tool, respectively) with no symptoms. I then stressed all at the same time to test my power supply, I used Orthos's stress ram and cpu test and Ati Tool at the same time. The air coming out of my PSU isn't hot.


I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit on the box in my sig.
 

corkyg

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There is a setting in BIOS where a choice is to have the system restart on an error.