Louie57703 Posted December 29, 2003 Posted December 29, 2003 Ok lately my computer has been restarting on its own... i reinstalled XP thinking that would fix it, but it didn't... there is NO windows error thing when XP restarts so i'm lost on why its restarting... It stays on for about 2-4hrs and will auto restart. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted December 29, 2003 Posted December 29, 2003 By default winxp is set up so that it restarts itself if a major error occurs...when it reloads windows after restarting does it say "the system has recovered from a serious error?" If so, then something is causing instability...mine used to do that when I would oc my system too far, but then I disabled the auto-restart feature so I could actually see the bsod that appears. You can disable it if you want to see what happens then. It's Control Panel---->System---->Advanced Tab--->Settings under "startup and recovery"---->it's under "system failure" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie57703 Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 nope i don't get that message... its like a perfect restart... its like if i went to start-shut down-restart.... but its making me mad... i've turned off all the power things that powerdown stuff... so i'm lost... what could be causing the restarts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobalt Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 (edited) My guess is it's probably heat related, overheat from CPU or PSU. How are your temps during on time, does the HS feels too hot, is the PS exaust air hotter than usual. a pc does not shuts itself off for no reason it might be trying to save your cpu. check seating of the HS and if you're not overloading your PS 300W might be a little too small for the stuff you have Edited December 30, 2003 by kobalt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Yuck Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 could it be the video card? I used to get that but since I upgraded my video card drivers which I never knew to do until UT2003 wouldnt work and told me to get latest drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sYstEmATiC Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 (edited) also,. try uping the vcore one notch if you have eliminated the fact that it may be a heat problem, if its not, then up the vcore, my dads pc did the same exact thing and uping the vcore fixed it. oh crap, i didnt read your second post, im tired and not thinking right, so if my post sounds like its from out of nowhere then disregard it lol, sorry. Edited December 30, 2003 by sYstEmATiC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanatic Posted January 3, 2004 Posted January 3, 2004 I had same problem. Mine was heat probe related. The probe would see a "quick" spike and either shutdown or restart. I found that the monitoring software had a feature called 3peat or someting like that. It had to see the spike 3x before it did anything. Just a thought Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0ld Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 Hmm... I'm having a very similar problem. At first I thought it was heat related, I just got my 2500+ Barton and OCed it to 3200+, according to ASUS Probe 100% load temp is 40C (which is plenty low [AMD recommends keeping CPUs under 90C]). So that can't be it, can it? Thanks in advance! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agallion Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 Same thing happend to me except it was going into standby..i reformatted and everything is all ducky now..i can even install AIM..people who saw my other thread will understand lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simich Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 set your cpu and memory to optimal, output of cpu 133MHz, and same outboard freq of the memory, thats what stopped my same exact problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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