My computer keeps restarting (via hardware I think!!)

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Hi,

Please help, my pc frequently restarts itself and as far as i am able to
tell it is doing it

in hardware as there is a loud click then beep before it does it.
It seems to happen more frequently when I'm watching a video file/dvd on my
pc but that may be

coincidence. I've swapped out different video cards so I don't think that
is the problem.
H


Here are my specs

ASUS A7v8x-x motherboard
512MB Ram (all fine according to memtest86)

If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this then I would appreciate
it very much!

Thank you
 
Hi,

Please help, my pc frequently restarts itself and as far as i am able to
tell it is doing it

in hardware as there is a loud click then beep before it does it.
It seems to happen more frequently when I'm watching a video file/dvd on my
pc but that may be

coincidence. I've swapped out different video cards so I don't think that
is the problem.
H


Here are my specs

ASUS A7v8x-x motherboard
512MB Ram (all fine according to memtest86)

If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this then I would appreciate
it very much!

Thank you
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Did you check the fans? Check temps and voltages?
My first guess would be that your CPU is overheating, but it
could only be a guess since you didn't provide a lot of
info.
 
Did you check the fans? Check temps and voltages?
My first guess would be that your CPU is overheating, but it
could only be a guess since you didn't provide a lot of
info.
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Thanks for the reply.

Fans are fine, I actually have the side of my case off at the mo, CPU temp
at 57ºC.

Im thinking it might be my hard drive, not sure, Ill see what scandisk has
to say. Or are there any more thorough harddrive scanners out there?

Thanks
 
Do you have the "Auto Restart" if there's a problem option checked? If you
do uncheck it, see if you can get an error message instead of an annoying
reboot. Besides that, when my computer started rebooting itself it turned
out to be my RAM. Run http://www.memtest86.com/ or something, test the
memory.

Smith
 
Smith said:
Do you have the "Auto Restart" if there's a problem option checked? If you
do uncheck it, see if you can get an error message instead of
an annoying reboot. Besides that, when my computer started rebooting
itself it turned out to be my RAM. Run http://www.memtest86.com/ or
something, test the memory.
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My it was the PS the first time. Several times it was the a HD but it
restarted to a check drive screen but that was a not booting proper issue I
believe.

J.
 
Smith said:
Do you have the "Auto Restart" if there's a problem option checked? If
you do uncheck it, see if you can get an error message instead of an
annoying reboot. Besides that, when my computer started rebooting itself
it turned out to be my RAM. Run http://www.memtest86.com/ or something,
test the memory.

Smith
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I did have that checked!! And now since unchecking it it hasnt once crashed.

Thanks for pointing that out to me
 
Alright, glad it was that simple unlike mine :) Probably some tiny error
and XP over reacted every time and rebooted just like it's programed to do.
I think that being checked is default in XP for some god awful reason, they
really need to change that...it's the first thing I disable on any computer
I work on.
 
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