my rig keeps restarting in windows and now sometimes when loading windows

[Nab]

i just got anew power supply and a new video card, what other reasons could a system randomly restart? It's not temps because i've been keeping an eye on those. Any other suggetsions?

edit: it's getting worse, my system is sometimes restarting right before the loading screen for Windows XP comes up.

 

[drum]

so it wasn't restarting randomly before the upgrades?

 

[Nab]

Originally posted by: drum
so it wasn't restarting randomly before the upgrades?

it was restarting before the upgrade as well, but i needed a new video card anyways, so i got one and i thought it might be lack of power so i got a new one 🙁. I am still having the problems.

 

[ElFenix]

do a checkdisk. bad sectors can cause crashes.

 

[ITPaladin]

bad memory. Do memtest.

 

[fibes]

Check the BIOS. Make sure "wake on LAN" is disabled.

 

[Nab]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
do a checkdisk. bad sectors can cause crashes.

i ran chkdsk and it corrected some JGrasp stuff, but it is still randomly restarting 🙁

 

[Nab]

Originally posted by: ITPaladin
bad memory. Do memtest.

i'll run memtest86 overnight tonight.
i'm going to check BIOS right now.

edit: I checked my BIOS and the "wake on LAN" is disabled.

edit2: I ran memtest86 for 8 hours (overnight) and had 0 errors. I ran it on default settings.

edit3: it's getting worse, my system is sometimes restarting right before the loading screen for Windows XP comes up.

 

[Nab]

Any other ideas? The reason i believe its the hard drive because its the oldest part of my system. I just reformated it, to see if that would make a difference, but the random restarting still continues.

 

[Nab]

bump =/, this is happening frequently enough where I need to fix it. If anyone has any other suggestions 🙂.