I'm currently facing a weird problem that I've never had before. My system is been operating for like about 3 months without shutting down (some restarts and temporary shut downs for less than five times). Few days ago while I was surfing the net the system just suddenly restarts itself without notice (this happened a few times before, less than 5 times in 3 months). The weird thing is that since then, whenever I click 'shut down' from start menu, the system restarts itself instead of shutting down!!!! Now I can only shut it down by pressing the power button on the case (to go soft-off, a feature of Asus board), or of course switch off the power supply unit.
Can somebody suggest that what might be the causes of this problem? Is it the windows XP (software related), power supply (Antec TurePower 430) , motherboard, HDDs, CPU, or overheating problem (during operation the temp for CPU is usually 42C/107F and for MB is 37C/98F) ?
There should be no virus since I update the virus definition every 2 or 3 days if they are available and scan the whole system at least twice a week. My OS is Windows XP pro sp1a with all available windows updates. One more little thing is that, before the problem, my system usually boots up in a 8~15 second time frame, but now it takes like about 25~45 seconds.
Here's my system config:
Windows XP Pro SP1a with all updates
Intel P4 2.0G Northwood @ 2.24G
4 x 256mb RDRAM PC800
Asus P4T-E MB
Antec TruePower 430w
Asus V8460TD (Nvidia Ti-4600)
Adaptec 29160 scsi card
NIC, SB Audigy 2, Leadtek Winfast 2000xp TV tuner, USR fax modem
73G Seagate 15.3k scsi 320 (as system drive, 1 full partition)
73G Quantum Altas 10K3 scsi 320
120G WD1200JB
250G WD2500JB
scsi zip 100 internal drive
Asus CD-S520/A 52x CD-Rom
LiteOn Combo SHOC-5232K
Peripherals: Umax 6400 Firewire scanner, Brother HL-1250 USB, Logitech Quickcam Pro4000,....etc
I sincerely appreciate your help, thanks.
Can somebody suggest that what might be the causes of this problem? Is it the windows XP (software related), power supply (Antec TurePower 430) , motherboard, HDDs, CPU, or overheating problem (during operation the temp for CPU is usually 42C/107F and for MB is 37C/98F) ?
There should be no virus since I update the virus definition every 2 or 3 days if they are available and scan the whole system at least twice a week. My OS is Windows XP pro sp1a with all available windows updates. One more little thing is that, before the problem, my system usually boots up in a 8~15 second time frame, but now it takes like about 25~45 seconds.
Here's my system config:
Windows XP Pro SP1a with all updates
Intel P4 2.0G Northwood @ 2.24G
4 x 256mb RDRAM PC800
Asus P4T-E MB
Antec TruePower 430w
Asus V8460TD (Nvidia Ti-4600)
Adaptec 29160 scsi card
NIC, SB Audigy 2, Leadtek Winfast 2000xp TV tuner, USR fax modem
73G Seagate 15.3k scsi 320 (as system drive, 1 full partition)
73G Quantum Altas 10K3 scsi 320
120G WD1200JB
250G WD2500JB
scsi zip 100 internal drive
Asus CD-S520/A 52x CD-Rom
LiteOn Combo SHOC-5232K
Peripherals: Umax 6400 Firewire scanner, Brother HL-1250 USB, Logitech Quickcam Pro4000,....etc
I sincerely appreciate your help, thanks.
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