Reboot without warning?????????

[rubberduck21]

I have a 1.2 Athlon with 256mb PC 133 and I can be surfing on the net or playing a game and all of a sudden this damn thing just restarts. What can cause this??????????

Any help is greatly Appr.

 

[nicowju]

Could be overheating. Check your temperatures using Motherboard Monitor or something. If its getting above 50 degrees (well, maybe 55), then it might be getting too hot.

 

[BadThad]

In 99% of the cases I've read here, it's your power supply.

Are you on Team AnandTech?

 

[shathal]

Most likely to be power.

Even if you didn't OC your CPU, just check your temperatures. You shouldn't be over the 50 degree C mark.

More likely than not, the PSU is your source of trouble.

More system specs pls .

 

[Winjer23]

I had a similar problem with my 1.2 Athlon on an IWill KK266. My PC would shut down and sometimes restart during installation from certain CDs.

I thought it was the PS, but when I upgraded to the newest VIA drivers, my problems disappeared.

Andrew

 

[sandorski]

Could be heat, could be drivers, could be ps. Heat issues are not isolated to the cpu(my 1.2/266 Tbird has been as high as 66c with no problems), the chipset or videocard can also cause overheating restarts.

 

[rubberduck21]

thanks for all the help. Since i have reformatted my hard drive i hav not had any problems. I do not know if that had anything to do with it or not.

Thanks again for all your help