here are the symptoms:
1. Computer restarts without warning
2. Restarts occur at random, occasionally when you press the power button.
3. Can be triggered by touching a key, or using a mouse wheel - this appears to be common, though it does restart when I am away from the computer.
Here are my computers specs.
Gainward nVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB RAM
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro2
512MB DDR 400 RAM
SB Audigy with Creative 5.1 speakers
40G Western Digital Hdd (I think)
9G hdd (using it as a secondary...it came with the computer package we orginally got)
Logitech MX700 mouse
Logitech keyboard
Computer package Power supply - possibly 320W.
Computer package CD Drive 32x
my thoughts on what it could be:
Cooling - I have recorded from motherboardmonitor heat up to 76C and an average of about 65C , but according to the BIOS my CPU seems to run at the low 60C's
Faulty Ram - its possible..surely? even though the startup checks the ram and it seems to work :S
Power Supply faulty/not powerful enough - could i be trying to power too much with the power supply. Or could it be faulty and have power cuts?
Software/Hardware conflict - could it be this?
Anyway, thanks for your help.
ISP
1. Computer restarts without warning
2. Restarts occur at random, occasionally when you press the power button.
3. Can be triggered by touching a key, or using a mouse wheel - this appears to be common, though it does restart when I am away from the computer.
Here are my computers specs.
Gainward nVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB RAM
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro2
512MB DDR 400 RAM
SB Audigy with Creative 5.1 speakers
40G Western Digital Hdd (I think)
9G hdd (using it as a secondary...it came with the computer package we orginally got)
Logitech MX700 mouse
Logitech keyboard
Computer package Power supply - possibly 320W.
Computer package CD Drive 32x
my thoughts on what it could be:
Cooling - I have recorded from motherboardmonitor heat up to 76C and an average of about 65C , but according to the BIOS my CPU seems to run at the low 60C's
Faulty Ram - its possible..surely? even though the startup checks the ram and it seems to work :S
Power Supply faulty/not powerful enough - could i be trying to power too much with the power supply. Or could it be faulty and have power cuts?
Software/Hardware conflict - could it be this?
Anyway, thanks for your help.
ISP