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these are some random reboots I've experienced in the past week.

1. Playing Hitman: Blood Money, the computer stutters rapidly and reboots.

2. Listening to music and surfing the web using Opera, stutters the same way and reboots.

3. just now, installing Steam, instantly reboots.

what may be wrong? I was thinking it was my crappy $30 power supply so today I bought a Thermaltech 550 watter, but apparently that wasn't the problem. (good bye $75 and 2 hours of my life)

I run Windows XP SP2
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus M2nPV mobo
Sapphire X1900XT 256mb
Seagate 250gig SATA HD

yeah.

so what can it be now??

thanks a lot
 
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John

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Yay for sticky :)

Start by trying to complete 2-3 passes of Memtest 86+. If you pass check the XP event viewer for problems.
 
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Mr Fox

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Originally posted by: iskim86
these are some random reboots I've experienced in the past week.

1. Playing Hitman: Blood Money, the computer stutters rapidly and reboots.

2. Listening to music and surfing the web using Opera, stutters the same way and reboots.

3. just now, installing Steam, instantly reboots.

what may be wrong? I was thinking it was my crappy $30 power supply so today I bought a Thermaltech 550 watter, but apparently that wasn't the problem. (good bye $75 and 2 hours of my life)

I run Windows XP SP2
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus M2nPV mobo
Sapphire X1900XT 256mb
Seagate 250gig SATA HD

yeah.

so what can it be now??

thanks a lot
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What Changed a Week Ago ?? 6.10 Vid Card Drivers ???



 
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oynaz

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Probably a piece of hardware is failing. In order of probability (my estimate):

Memory
Graphics card
Motherboard
HDD
CPU
 
iskim86

iskim86

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Originally posted by: Mr Fox
Originally posted by: iskim86
these are some random reboots I've experienced in the past week.

1. Playing Hitman: Blood Money, the computer stutters rapidly and reboots.

2. Listening to music and surfing the web using Opera, stutters the same way and reboots.

3. just now, installing Steam, instantly reboots.

what may be wrong? I was thinking it was my crappy $30 power supply so today I bought a Thermaltech 550 watter, but apparently that wasn't the problem. (good bye $75 and 2 hours of my life)

I run Windows XP SP2
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus M2nPV mobo
Sapphire X1900XT 256mb
Seagate 250gig SATA HD

yeah.

so what can it be now??

thanks a lot
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What Changed a Week Ago ?? 6.10 Vid Card Drivers ???
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oh yeah! I went from Omega drivers to ATI drivers......
 
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Mr Fox

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Originally posted by: iskim86
Originally posted by: Mr Fox
Originally posted by: iskim86
these are some random reboots I've experienced in the past week.

1. Playing Hitman: Blood Money, the computer stutters rapidly and reboots.

2. Listening to music and surfing the web using Opera, stutters the same way and reboots.

3. just now, installing Steam, instantly reboots.

what may be wrong? I was thinking it was my crappy $30 power supply so today I bought a Thermaltech 550 watter, but apparently that wasn't the problem. (good bye $75 and 2 hours of my life)

I run Windows XP SP2
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus M2nPV mobo
Sapphire X1900XT 256mb
Seagate 250gig SATA HD

yeah.

so what can it be now??

thanks a lot
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What Changed a Week Ago ?? 6.10 Vid Card Drivers ???
Click to expand...

oh yeah! I went from Omega drivers to ATI drivers......
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Try Rolling Back the Drivers....


Also : Control Panel/System/Advanced/Start-up and Recovery/Settings

Under System Failure :

Uncheck Send an Administrative Alert, And Automatically restart.

click ok and apply and Ok on out.... you should be better.....

that stuff was MicroShaft's way of pissing people off....
 
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chizhz

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i had the same problem with my (different) asus m/b. it had two on board network cards, i disabled one of them and that fixed it. see if there may be other conflicts.

another source of arbitrary reboots might be weak power supply and memory (as was suggested earlier).
 
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oynaz

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Originally posted by: iskim86
Originally posted by: oynaz
Probably a piece of hardware is failing. In order of probability (my estimate):

Memory
Graphics card
Motherboard
HDD
CPU
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hmmm this computer is just a little over a month old....
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And? Just because the computer is new doesn't mean the hardware can't be defective. Statistically, there is actually an increased risk.
 
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pkme2

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Try switching out your RAM. Had this problem and once I changed my RAM the problem disappeared.
By the way, the RAM I took out works perfectly in another rig, just fine. Go figga!
 
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ok a balloon just popped up on my taskbar, saying Opera.exe is corrupted and that I should run chkdsk. seems like those random reboots are corrupting my files
 
iskim86

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JEBUS!! my computer just rebooted again and when it entered windows, my ATI utility crashed, then windows task manager, then opera!! Windows Task Manager was actually prevented by Data Execution Prevention..... wtf?
 
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John

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Did you bother to read and follow the steps in my original post? :eek:
 
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Rastus

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I had a similar experience. It turned out to be a USB driver for my camera that was conflicting with something else. When I uninstalled the driver, the problem went away.
 
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Mr Fox

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Originally posted by: iskim86
wow i haven't experienced such quick destruction.

now even the directsound driver is bad. i think my best bet a format
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Sounds Like Disease..... Your Puter has The Canal Zone Clap.....


 
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