PC reboots after every 10 mins

[kincw]

Hi all,

really need some help.

My 3 year old 566 celeron 192 meg ram running Win XP has a nasty habit of rebooting every 5- 10 mins. Any idea what I need to change? I have reinstalled Xp but it does not seem to be working...

Thanks

Kin

 

[viking1966]

disable all the power saving features in bios and os.. that may be the trbl.. and also turnoff screen saver then sit and wait .. let me know what happens..

 

[gdtaylor]

Check the event log for application errors. The Event Viewer can be found under Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.

 

[DoubleUhat]

Most likely your PSU, but can be bad capacitors on your MB. Try with another PSU is the simplest way to trouble-shoot.

 

[DJFuji]

heat?

 

[ironique]

Is your CPU fan working? It may be dead. heating problems.

 

[User1001]

bad ram?

 

[DoubleUhat]

Heat = auto-shutdown
RAM = system hang
PSU = random reboot

 

[phpdog]

yeah i had just the exact same problem but instead of every 10 mins it was just completely random. It was my RAM , Id try changing the RAM for sure. 192 MB thats not really enough for running XP in my opinion .

 

[kincw]

Thanks for all the help. I will try it out and see what happens.

Cheers