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35217	2002-02-10 09:47:00	gidday all... recently my computer has started rebooting when i do certain things. I recently downloaded the latest icq and tried installing it.. when the installwise wizard got to a certain point, it with out warnign, or prompting rebooted my computer... i tried it several times and it just did the same thing so i had to give up and revert to the old version.. also, it reboots when i use the previously faultlessly performing scanning package called iphoto express.. If i scan a photo then go to open it via paint or just from usign the find file feature of windows, and double clicking on the file name, it reboots the whole computer when pain or iphoto or whatever is loading the pic as before, with no warning or prompting. but ive noticed it lets me open files that are reasonably small ok.. as in say 100k or less... but over that it just wants to reboot. There is also another funny quirk that might somehow be relavent... I scan a photo, and it is listed as 24 MB sized file in iphoto, but in the find file listing , under the properties listing of the file its just a 200k sized file.. I get the feeling it will reboot when ever it does something aht requires a bit of memory.. what the hell is going on? machine details: Pentium 2 266 160 MB ram s3 virge 325 vid card win 98 regularly virus checked with up to date virus prog firewall 4.3 GB hard disk with about 2 MB used.. no history of such problems any help appreciated.. thanks... H	Guest (0)
35218	2002-02-10 11:03:00	a basic thing to check is the heatsink. you could have overheating probs. check the fan is still working and the heatsink isn't filled with dust. it could also be ram failing, psu failing or just windows ;-)	Guest (0)
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