Unkown restarts

[tmac8]

Ok here is the deal. I bought a Aopen Geforce2 Ti 64Mb DDR, and a Athlon XP 1900+. My comp continues to restart for no apparent reason. Today it ran for 9h:56min before crashing, other times it will last 10 sec in windows XP. Here is my config (all newest drivers):

Asus A7V-133 with newest BIOS update, and VIA drivers
300W PSU (I have tried another PSU and had same prob)
40Gb Maxtor Drive
2 20Gb BB WD drive in RAID 0
Creative PCI128
512Mb RAM
CD writer
NIC
No USB devices

I have been told to try turning off the Power Management in XP, somehow through device manager and showing hidden devices. I don't know which one to turn off though. I would like to try this....
Also 3dmark2001 SE is unable to complete the benchmarking tests. It continues to close to the desktop.

Thank you for all your help.

 

[Nerdology]

Some questions:
Did you buy and add the 1900+ and the GF simultaneously? If so, have you tried using just one at a time and not the other, to isolate the problem?
Did it work before, and if you go back to the orginal hardware, does it work again?

 

[tmac8]

funny story, I bought the parts and put my other CPU and Video card into a older computer, that computer was sold before I was able to test my new parts. I am going to try borrowing a different videocard ASAP. I also tried starting from just the basics and working up. Sometimes everything would run fine, then if I tried it again it would crash, even when they are put-in in the same order.

 

[jpucci1]

disconnect extra hdds, sound cars... all non-essential cards and see what happens then

 

[KingCheeba]

Check to see if any loose pci, mobo, memory, cpu, cables or anything else is loose. Just to check.

And I also agree with jpucci1

Good luck!

 

[DaiShan]

did you clear the cmos before installing the new processor? are you running any usb devices (this includes mice!) have you tried the via pci latency patch?

 

[tmac8]

I have another video card here, I am going to try that one for the moment. I didn't clear the CMOS before, should I do that now? I am going to try, it wont do any harm. Then if all else fails I will try that new pci patch.

Thanks guys, I will give you an update to how things are going later tonight. Thanks for the help!