Upgraded HDD. Computer reboots 3-4 times a day

[TheSiege]

OK This is my setup
HDD1- SCSI 17GB for OS
HDD2- SATA WD 1TB Greed Edition for Media
HDD3- SATA Seagate 1.5 TB For Media
4x512mb ECC Ram = 2GB
2x1GHZ Pentium 3 Slot1 Processors
Windows XP Pro

Its just a media server really, but when it streams to my Xbox it will reboot after give or take a couple hours
I was going to upgrade the firmware for the seagate, but mine has CC in the revision and according to the website
http://seagate.custkb.com/seag...earch.jsp?DocId=207957

I don't need to upgrade it.

Any ideas?

 

[earthman]

Possibilities:

1. Your system drive is failing.
2. Defective RAM.
3. Power fluctuation, iffy power supply, voltage drop or brownout in line.
4. CPU defective or overheating.
5. Software issue causing a system crash. Reboot is the default response.

 

[yhelothar]

does it still crash if you undo the upgrade?
i wouldn't rule out a bad hdd controller too
how about switching locations of the hdd?

IIRC really old systems doesn't take drives bigger than the 137GB limit?

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

IIRC really old systems doesn't take drives bigger than the 137GB limit?

they will if the OS supports it, anything after (and including) XP SP1 will.

might be boot issues with IDE drives if the BIOS is really old but his boot drive is SCSI (immune) plus only 17 gigs anyway. even then on IDE stuff usually as long as the boot partition is 1st and <137 gigs the drive can be larger.

will an ECC memory error cause a reboot? anything in the Event Viewer?

I would throw memtest86 at it, then maybe swap the PSU out if memtest is OK. thats a decent amount of hardware for an old PSU.

could also check if the NIC and mobo chipset has the latest driver.