weird reboot problem

[ciproxr]

recently added a radeon x800 and another 512 ram, I installed ulread video editor today and while editing a vid my computer restarted, i figured it was the cool n quiet doing it so i turned it off and while editing a video same thing happpened.....

i have checked my ram , left memtest on for about 7 and a half hours, not asingle error

also have left 3dmark05 on for about an hour and a half without any problems........

anyone have any idea what this could be ? how do i turn on bsod instead of rebooting

 

[wanderer27]

The only thing that comes to mind is maybe your Video Drivers.

You may still have junk from your previous Video card causing a problem.

I usually do a full re-install of Windows when changing either a Video card or Motherboard. It just prevents a lot of headaches.

 

[ciproxr]

i dont know, deffinitly not overheating, and if it was the power supply i assume it would do this at boot up when it draws the most power or at least while i was playing a game on full load....

any other suggestions ?

 

[wanderer27]

What Video card did you have before ?

It's also possible you may have an IRQ conflict with your VC and another PCI device - a Sound Card or NIC would be the most likely culprit.

You might want to look around in your Device Manager and look under the View Resources by Connection (menu) for shared IRQs to check this one out.

 

[ciproxr]

i had onboard video b4 that . heres my rig

NESO PIXO A700 Black 17" 16ms LCD Monitor

Antec Solution SLK2650-BQE Black case

Antec Smartpower 350w psu

AMD Athlon 64 3200+

MSI RS480M2-IL Socket 939 mobo

CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400

TwinMOS 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400

MSI Radeon X800

Western Digital 80GB

Seagate Barracuda 160GB

NEC Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive

NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3520A BK

Onboard sound with Altec Lansing BX3 Speakers

Linksys Wireless-G WRT54GS

Logetech Dual Action Controller

 

[wanderer27]

Seeing this, I'm thinking a possible timing issue with your RAM, as you have two different types/vendors.

 

[ciproxr]

if thats the case is there a fix ?

 

[jonnyGURU]

Most of the time, reboots are RAM.

Take the new RAM back out, leave in the video card and try it again.