Hey guys, I'm posting this for a friend who just got a PC from ibuypower.com, he is saying that it randomly reboots without warning.
At first he said it was with games which I figured windows XP reboots when your memory is very low (from memory leaks, it did that with AC2 for me)...however he was playing half life and has a gig of ram!!!! Then he also said it happens while running AIM, and other very simple things where it definitely wouldn't be from the windows xp reboot on low memory function.
So I am asking for opinions or solutions to this problem for him, his configuration is....
AMD Athlon 2500+
1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM
120 GB HD
DVD-ROM drive
CD-RW drive
Audigy MP3+
6 in 1 media reader
Nforce 2 motherboard
then the temperature monitor with 2 extra LED case fans, controls to turn them on/off, along with a neon light and all this powered by a 420 watt PS
So any ideas/thoughts I know he would be grateful, and he plans on calling ibuypower tomorrow to check this out.
Someone on gamespot suggested that if the PSU is a cheap one that doesn't manage the amp distribution properly that would be the cause of it, and to buy an enermax, antec, thermaltake brand PSU. This is a concern for me as well as for him because I also ordered my PC from ibuypower.com and got a very similiar configured machine with the same "default 420 watt PSU" not the enermax one they offered...once again thanks in advance for your output!
At first he said it was with games which I figured windows XP reboots when your memory is very low (from memory leaks, it did that with AC2 for me)...however he was playing half life and has a gig of ram!!!! Then he also said it happens while running AIM, and other very simple things where it definitely wouldn't be from the windows xp reboot on low memory function.
So I am asking for opinions or solutions to this problem for him, his configuration is....
AMD Athlon 2500+
1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM
120 GB HD
DVD-ROM drive
CD-RW drive
Audigy MP3+
6 in 1 media reader
Nforce 2 motherboard
then the temperature monitor with 2 extra LED case fans, controls to turn them on/off, along with a neon light and all this powered by a 420 watt PS
So any ideas/thoughts I know he would be grateful, and he plans on calling ibuypower tomorrow to check this out.
Someone on gamespot suggested that if the PSU is a cheap one that doesn't manage the amp distribution properly that would be the cause of it, and to buy an enermax, antec, thermaltake brand PSU. This is a concern for me as well as for him because I also ordered my PC from ibuypower.com and got a very similiar configured machine with the same "default 420 watt PSU" not the enermax one they offered...once again thanks in advance for your output!
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