PC likes to reboot

[kojak61]

Lately, my pc will will reboot by itself for no reason. I can be surfing online and and it will go balck and the next thing you see is the BIOS screen. Anyone have any ideas? Also I have been getting stop errors and memory dumps.

 

[Schadenfroh]

few questions
what is your system specs?
is heat a issue?
did you do anything before this started happening, ie install, etc
are you o/c?

 

[kojak61]

I am running standard bus speed, so no overclocking. The only major change is the addition of a Samsung DVD, CDRW combo drive. Here is the rest of the soecs:
Athlon 2200+
Epox 8K5A motherboard
Geforce 4 4200 64mb
Two 80gb Western Digitals
Two 256mb Mushkin 2700
SB Live Platnum sound
I have 2 fans in the back, 1 in front blowing over the hard drives, and one one the side.
350watt Antec power supply
CPU has a heatsink with a 60mm fan on it.

 

[Nebor]

Could be a power issue, what w/ the addition of another optical.

 

[kojak61]

I thought about that, so I got a power supply tester and it passed with flying colors.

 

[Nebor]

A power supply tester?.....

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[John]

Originally posted by: Nebor
A power supply tester?.....

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ATX power supply tester

I have a few of them, and just because all of the dummy lights show that it "should be" good doesn't necessarily mean that it is.

Kojak, check the even viewer and see what the red x's say under application and system. You can also try pulling a stick of memory out and run memtest86

 

[Nebor]

Er.... doesn't that thing just tell you if your power supply is working or not? I'm saying your power supply doesn't have the juice to run that goose.

 

[nick1985]

my guess is heat

 

[Nebor]

He lists 4 fans though...

 

[MournSanity]

Do you have Windows XP? My system crashes when I run WinXP so I had to go back to Win2k. And I'm afraid to update my BIOS because this is the only system I have access to and if something happens I'm screwed. You could try updating your BIOS if you want.

 

[mindwreck]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: Nebor
A power supply tester?.....

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ATX power supply tester

that thing can't possibly stress the powersupply. its must likely tests the PS if its even functioning at all.

it probably can't be a heat problem. hes got good airflow. i think that PS isn't supplying enough juice. my computer used to do that until i got my enermax PS

 

[thraxes]

My main rig does this occasionaly... just this morning when starting winamp. But also with no apparent trigger whatsoever it will just restart.
Incidently I also am running a KT333 board (Asus A7V333-X) with an XP2200+ with very good cooling.
I tried with a different PSU and that did not really help as it still occasionally restarted.

But when it occurs it's only once a day, this morning and since then it has been running all day (with the exception of a short break this afternoon to put in a new sound card).

Specs are in my rigs profile

 

[kojak61]

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 7/6/2003
Time: 8:21:43 AM
User: N/A
Computer: KOJAK61-PU17QBI
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0x80000004, 0x804675d5, 0x80466d65, 0x8006a29a). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini070603-02.dmp.

There are several entries like this.

 

[wacki]

kojak61, you might want to update all of your drivers. This sounds like a driver problem to me, although I haven't check your kernal dump code.... I had a problem with a machine that didn't like Windows XP, turns out the motherboard drivers for the Via KT333 chipset was what didn't like windows XP too much. I upgraded the drivers and it worked flawlessly. The easiest thing to do is upgrade all of your drivers, mobo, sound card, video card, all of them. And then see what happens. Good luck

Another thing to do it is to deactivate everything you can in the BIOS and the slowly reactivate what you need... time consumming but will ussually work.

 

[kojak61]

I test both chips seperately and only one passed, but my pc now has stop error right after Windows 2000 screen. It never makes it to desktop. It even has stop errors in safe mode. At one point I had to turn the power off and on a few times for mainboard to see the ram. Could it be the ram or motherboard?