I am lost... help me

[Usher]

My friends computer randomly reboots itslef. No blue screen... Just one second working fine and then the next a black screen as it restarts. Don't think it is any applications cause it does it when doing different things, and I have seen it reboot without any applications open. Anyone have any ideas what could case it to reboot? My guess is the power supply is too small. The system info is:

Tyan Tiger 230 Motherboard
256 Megs of Ram
250w power supply
933eb Pentium III processor
2 Hard Drives
Floppy disk drive
No CDrom

 

[jasonlee123]

The PS is not too small thats for sure. First thing I would check is your RAM. Make sure its seated correctly. After that check the temp. Make sure you arent over heating. You might not be overclocking but maybe your fan is bad or not seated right. Just some ideas.

 

[Usher]

thanks for the input. The system isn't overheating... will check on the ram.

 

[jasonlee123]

Try another PS if you have one. It could still be a bad PS.

 

[SickBeast]

could be a software problem/virus. try formatting/reinstalling.