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June 18th, 2001, 02:02 PM
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 Mysterious Restarting
Can anyone help me with my PC. It seems to restart on it's own, randomly, even when I'm working on something!!!! Thanks in advance!!!!
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June 18th, 2001, 02:08 PM
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June 18th, 2001, 02:10 PM
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I agree, CPU is a prime possibility. I also saw this happen to someone once whose hard drive was going. I would back up important stuff soon, just in case.
Flash! Don't heckle the supervillain!
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June 18th, 2001, 03:02 PM
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
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June 18th, 2001, 03:24 PM
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I had the same problem.. thought it was the PS.. replaced to no avail. Even replaced the CPU. Nothing. The only other thing to replace is the MB.  Does this problem happen to be in Win2K?? Only happens there.. not in 98 or ME.
Check the RAM too...
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June 20th, 2001, 01:56 PM
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No it's in Windows 98. Oddly the room air conditioned for 67 degrees. I like it cold. I really don't know what's going on but can it a software thing??
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June 20th, 2001, 02:21 PM
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Originally posted by aabatteries:
No it's in Windows 98. Oddly the room air conditioned for 67 degrees. I like it cold. I really don't know what's going on but can it a software thing??
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Yeah,especially if it's virus software 
Seriously saying,there are a lot of things,what could cause random lockups.
I'd suspect also RAM as addition to all mentioned above.
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June 21st, 2001, 07:07 PM
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I agree with Ruslan as to RAM......could also be video drivers?????
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June 23rd, 2001, 12:10 PM
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Perhaps telling us your system specs might help - also include the how many watts your power supply is please.
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June 23rd, 2001, 02:53 PM
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Registered User
Originally posted by Ruslan:
Check CPU's temperature.
Also check for proper CPU fan rotation. It may be rotating too slow or not at all. That is the most common cause of spontaneous reboot.
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Welcome to four more years of the most dangerous presidency in history.
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June 24th, 2001, 01:48 PM
#11
specs are
700mhz p3
128 ram
tnt2 4xagp
The restarting happens very randomly. I don't understand it. It's always cold in this room....can it be too cold???
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June 24th, 2001, 10:26 PM
#12
Just a quick thought ..
Have you added anything new to your pc ?
either hardware or software drivers etc
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June 25th, 2001, 09:19 AM
#13
The same was also happening to me. Come to find out it was a bad nic card. I got a 3 Com 10/100 and alls better in love and war...
Might have had something to do with Wake On Lan.
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June 25th, 2001, 07:28 PM
#14
best way is to remove everything except mem vid and hdd. Disconnect even the floppy.
See if it still does it. Mine turned out to be a floppy that kept shorting out and rebooting my machine.
I was here, here I was, was I here? I hope I was.... 
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June 25th, 2001, 08:06 PM
#15
i had exacly the same problem one time, it turned up to be one of the memory dimms.
download the program called "gold memory" its very good for cheking bad memory.
you can get it from the utils page here at windrivers.
hope this helps
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