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Help! stupid computer randomly restarts...

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PartyPantsTim

Junior Member
Here's everything in my current setup:

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ w/ crappy stock fan
Asus nForce2 A78nx Deluxe
brand new Allied 400 watt power supply
Crucial pc 2700 512mb RAM
Xtasy Radeon 9200SE Video Card
Asus 52x CD-ROM
Plextor CDRW
Lynksys 54mbps wireless PCI card
Fire Wire card (currently out)
120 gig Seagate HD
80 gig SATA Seagate HD
2 80mm rear case fans blowing in, and the side panels are both off because of constant reconfiguring.

Okay, here's the situation. this computer is used for an in-home recording studio and is consantly restarting on it's own. I thought it was the power supply so i got the new one. Then i started getting BSOD when installing Windows XP on the setup portion w/ a stick of Corsair 3200 512mb stick I had. I figured it just wasn't compatible, so i put the Crucial back in. No more BSOD, and fresh OS install, but still random restarts.

PS.
I went in to the Control Panel: System: Advanced Something and already deselected the "Restart when there's a problem thing" Also, this is all pretty much brand new stuff. Maybe it's overheating? The CPU temp on startup is 110F according to BIOS. Is that too high?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Tim
 
What temperatures is the system running. Random reboots makes me think heat related. Most of the time you want to suck air into the case from the front and blow it out the rear.
 
110F = 43C and is fine: it's not a heat problem.

I think it's a setting in the BIOS, this is a common cause for random reboots, and would explain why it continues after a fresh install. Try resetting the BIOS and seeing if this makes a difference. After that, try fiddling with the settings that affect your graphics card and mem settings.
 
2 things I'd suggest.
1 take side of case off and see if problem clears
2 set bios settings to slower setting. start with default settings

 
I am getting the same problem and did what you all posted above, still didnt work. I went into safe mode and same thing still random reboot. Any other ideas what the cause may be?
 
Are you plugged directly into the wall? I haven't seen it in a while but I used to see this fairly often back in the 98 days with people either plugging directly into the wall socket or into a crappy 9.99 power strip.
 
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