Random Reboots

[minendo]

ok so I overclocked my micron pc100 cas 2 ram to 105 (not much of an overclock but it didnt like the 110 or 115). Now sometimes I have random reboots. Like tonight I am running winamp and i right click on my computer and computer restarts. Is this happening because my ram is OCed?

Athlon 900 Slot A
Gigabyte GA-7ixe
512 PC100 Micron CL2
Win2k

 

[Spikesoldier]

Log in as administrator and right click my computer. You might even want to do this in safe mode. Then go to Advanced, and hit startup and recovery. Uncheck automatically reboot.

 

[minendo]

thanks i never knew about that. so now what will happen when this happens again? will my computer just be locked up?

 

[Spikesoldier]

Usually a thorugh scandisk will solve the problem. You might even want to go to [l]http://windowsupdate.com[/l] and get the latest updates.

 

[minendo]

i have all the latest updates and i never ran into this problem until about two or three weeks after i OCed my ram

 

[Spikesoldier]

Since Windows 2000 is set by default to dump System memory into a Dump file in C:\winnt, and you said you never played with those advanced settings, I think windows is running into a problem with well, your ram. Check your event log. If you see something like a Parody Error, you know its your ram. Try disabling memory dump when a system error occurs.