Random reboots

[atomstryker]

When I do a CPU intensive task such as playing a game or ripping and encoding cds, etc. My computer randomly reboots. It is not overheating, it is an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ with 512mb of ram on an nforce2 mobo. I cant figure out whats wrong. Im guessing its either related to ram or processor. I've swapped out motherboards and psus and the problem persists. Heres the error I just got when the computer went down from the event log:

Error code 0000000a, parameter1 3e34f046, parameter2 000000ff, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 8052ddce.


Any ideas?
TIA

 

[MDE]

What video card do you have? If it's an ATI, then disable fastwrites in the BIOS and the ATI Control Panel. Try bumping up your RAM and CPU voltages individually and see if that works. Whatever needs more voltage needs replacin'. Also, try running Memtest86 to rule out RAM. If you're running multiple sticks of RAM, test each individually, then if that works, test them in single channel mode.

 

[atomstryker]

My video card is an MSI Gefore4 MX 440. No OCing going on and the psu is a very reliable antec 500+watt thing. Sound like the problem might be in the dual channel ram?

 

[Nebor]

Also make sure there isn't anyone or anything pushing the reset button on your comp. You know those wooden birds that drink the water? One of those bastards got in the right position one time, had me resetting all the time!

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: atomstryker
My video card is an MSI Gefore4 MX 440. No OCing going on and the psu is a very reliable antec 500+watt thing. Sound like the problem might be in the dual channel ram?

Your timings are likley too tight, or the ram is clocked too aggressively. Surefire way to get reboots. Up your VDIMM voltage to 2.8v.