ECS K7S5A keeps randomly restarting........HELP!!!

[MrCraphead]

first off, I'd like to say this is my friends problem, not mine, but he can't register on the boards b/c he has SprintION and all the address from Sprint are banned.

Anyway, he has an ECS K7VZA Rev. 2.0 mobo, 1.2 Ghz, 384 MB of SDRAM, Hercules Prophet GTS 2, SB Live! w/ live drive.

Problem is real simple, his computer just randomly reboots every 24 hours or so, maybe not on the dot but once everyday

Anyone? Thanks!

 

[slpaulson]

What does he have for a power supply?
I had a similar problem where my motherboard was defective and it wouldn't give enough voltage to my cpu.

 

[MortaniuS]

Make sure the board doesnt have a post under it shorting it where there isnt a hole. Then see about the powersupply

 

[igowerf]

Try setting the RAM timings to something less agressive. My K7S5a restarted while I was using MSIE. Setting the RAM to Normal and By SPD fixed it.

 

[MrCraphead]

The power supply is a Premier 300W. Do you really think the PS could be causing the random reboots?

 

[MrCraphead]

anyone?

 

[MrCraphead]

Up!

 

[urameatball]

long shot...
but where did the ram come from?
if its no name cheapo ram... set the FSB to 100mhz and see how everything runs.

I've had cheapo ram restart on me once in a while before... I replace the ram, and no more restarts

 

[TheNewGuy]

<< first off, I'd like to say this is my friends problem, not mine, but he can't register on the boards b/c he has SprintION and all the address from Sprint are banned.

Anyway, he has an ECS K7VZA Rev. 2.0 mobo, >>



You might want to alter the title of your post, as you have a different mb name there...quite possibly someone with the same mobo might have had the same problem and found a way to solve it...

Dave

 

[MrCraphead]

urameatball: I built his computer myself, and I got all his RAM from Crucial, so I hope it's not the RAM.

TheNewGuy: Not sure what you mean, but this is my friend's problem, on his system. Not mine. My system (the system in my profile) is perfectly fine thank you.

 

[nortexoid]

sounds like memory issue..

try setting the memory timing to normal and see if it does it (u can leave the CAS latency where it is if u wish)...
best to actually use the slowest RAM timings and latencies as possible....

if u don't get a random reboot, it's the memory timings..
start pushing them up after that and see where the breaking point is.