PSU problem

[miketheidiot]

I built a computer for my brother over chistmas with some spare parts (abit nf7-s, barton 2500, 512 kingston, 6800 vanilla) anyways since it was built it has been retarting randomly. I've replaced the board and ram (unrelated to the restart thing) increasing the ram to 1 gig (corsair valueslect) Anyways the restarts seem a bit more common now and usually happens when the computer is under load particularily games. Anyways i'm using thisa fortron PSU, which i would think would be adequate. Any opinions?

 

[IEC]

That PSU should be fine, but maybe a defect? Check the voltage readouts on the NF7-S - anything off a bit? The other thing is you might want to run memtest86+ to make sure that it's not a memory/cpu problem. One final thing to check is overheating issues - heat can do strange things

Hope it helps
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[miketheidiot]

i've checked heat, voltages are generally fine... where and how do i run memtest86 though?

 

[globalcitizen]

Check out the link here. All instructions are right there. Hope you figure out the problem.