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| 234487 | 2004-05-05 04:48:00 | I have a computer that seems to reboot every now and again, usually a couple of times within an hour. It is a clean install of XP Home, running sygate and AVG. No viruses spyware etc. Im picking that the problem is hardware related. I suspect the power supply but dont have any way of testing it. Does anyone know how I can test it without swapping it with a spare one or any other suggestions as to what the problem could be. System is a Athlon XP 1800+, A7S333 Aus mobo, 256 megs ram, to 40gb seagate hard disks and some kind of generic video card with 32megs. Cheers B. |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 234488 | 2004-05-05 05:55:00 | Have you disabled automatic restarting on an error, to provide you with a BSOD and hopefully a meaningful error message? Control Panel - System - Advanced - Startup and Recovery - Settings - untick "Automatically restart" If you have done this and its still happening, then its a hardware problem, possibly power supply related as you suspect? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 234489 | 2004-05-05 22:06:00 | thanks gf, I havent tried that but will give it a crack and see what happens. Cheers B. |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 234490 | 2004-05-06 09:39:00 | Hi Barnabas Had the same problem not too long ago. It wasnt hardware related. I think if I remember correctly I gave the machine an Adaware clean, and the registry a good clean using a registry cleaning tool, and the problem went away. Cheers. |
*Sparky* (311) | ||
| 234491 | 2004-05-06 21:50:00 | thanks again GF, that did the trick. Found an IRQ conflict (rare these days) and a couple of dodgy drivers from the error messages I ended up with. Cheers. B. |
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