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I've got the following config

AMD Athlon X2 3800+

ASUS A8N-VM SE

Corsair 2 X 512MB

Intex 400W

The whole setup is around 2 years old and the smps around 1 year old.

Now, I reinstalled windows on it and the computer keeps restarting. Now, the restarts happen when I start copying or am installing.. It might be any other reason, but during the 5 odd times it restarted, I was doing one of these things.. Is it due to the smps or something's gone wrong with the motherboard??

H E L P!!!

TIA,

Siddharth
 
Reseat ur RAM discharge the static electricity ,short ur CMOS battery clear ur system NVRAM or load default BIOS ,it should work
 
dude post excatly whats happenign is it restarting everytime u try to copy or install something,post what exactly whats happening
 
there can be many reasons for a resetting pc but in this case, its the RAM which seems to be having some problems.

i had the same problem, but the problem with me was the my RAM slot became faulty, so i put the ram in a free slot.

see if your slot is faulty.
 
I checked the cpu n mobo temps.. they are around 50 C..

PS: Since the time I posted, I've kept the PC on.. Till now its not restarted... around 2 hours..let's see.

@kranthi- It restarted when I was trying to copy stuff off the LAN twice.. and when I was trying to install FireFox and Office..
 
Right click my computer, select properties. choose advanced: Startup n recovery settings n disable automatically restart.

THe nxt time it crashes, hopefully u get the blue error screen and the displayed message 'may' help.

else its RAM> PSU. test both.
 
I think this was covered b4, but if the pc is a couple of years old... try cleaning out all of the fans (they may be gummed up with dust) and make sure plenty of air is still circulating. This is fairly common, and is more likely to be too much fan dust than hardware failure... but of course, that doesn't rule it out either.
 
siddharth said:
I checked the cpu n mobo temps.. they are around 50 C..

PS: Since the time I posted, I've kept the PC on.. Till now its not restarted... around 2 hours..let's see.

@kranthi- It restarted when I was trying to copy stuff off the LAN twice.. and when I was trying to install FireFox and Office..
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by the ans u posted i think ur heatsink is gone bad or ur fan coz u said it happens when ur trying to copy ,so as the system temp is 50 C whe ur trying to copy the system works more and ur system gets more heated up and it retarts so remove ur heatsink and fan carefully and seat it back properly aplly 1 drop of thermal paste and put it back and ur system should work fine
 
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@kranthi- It restarted when I was trying to copy stuff off the LAN twice.. and when I was trying to install FireFox and Office..
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Onboard nic? off board ?

Clean the NIC area and chipset - it will work, I have had similar problems , cleaning solved them, in off board NICs I simply tossed the card and put in a new one, problem soved.
 
yes dude i did understand it when ever ur trying to copy or install ur system works more and since it was posted tat system temp was 50 C heat sink can be a problem so check ur heatsink reseat everything and check temps and then do they same it shuldn restart coz one of the reason of restart is overheating of CPU
 
First I disabled automatic restarting in the advanced tab of "My Computer" properties so as to see the blue screen.

Now, the blue screen showed this-

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

*** STOP: 0X000000D1 ( , , , ,)

***NDIS.sys - Address F7298BEA base at F7283000, Datestamp 41107ec3

Googled it , a fairly common issue.. got lot of hits.. but am being unable to pinpoint the issue.. :(

0x000000D1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

The system attempted to access pageable memory using a kernel process IRQL that was too high. Drivers that have used improper addresses typically cause this error.
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Here's the link-

Windows XP Stop Errors

What does this imply??

@TheIndian - Got a Intex LAN card, which is around a year and a half old.. Could that be the troublemaker?

PS: Removed and cleaned the heatsink+fan btw...removed all the dust. Installed 2 more softwares and the pc did not restart...
 
just install XP on another partition and see if it happens there also.

this happens when an XP install gets corrupted (happend for me )

Just do some memtest to be sure its not the RAM either :)
 
greenhorn said:
just install XP on another partition and see if it happens there also.
this happens when an XP install gets corrupted (happend for me )

Just do some memtest to be sure its not the RAM either :)
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nah.. its not the ram... it did not restart all night... but in the morning as soon as i tried to copy again, it restarted...:(
 
siddharth said:
First I disabled automatic restarting in the advanced tab of "My Computer" properties so as to see the blue screen.

Now, the blue screen showed this-

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

*** STOP: 0X000000D1 ( , , , ,)

***NDIS.sys - Address F7298BEA base at F7283000, Datestamp 41107ec3

Googled it , a fairly common issue.. got lot of hits.. but am being unable to pinpoint the issue.. :(

Here's the link-

Windows XP Stop Errors

What does this imply??

@TheIndian - Got a Intex LAN card, which is around a year and a half old.. Could that be the troublemaker?

PS: Removed and cleaned the heatsink+fan btw...removed all the dust. Installed 2 more softwares and the pc did not restart...
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its 90% the NIC card :P i had a couple go bad on me too ;)

Its probably not the CPU heating or anything cos copying files over LAN does not stress the CPU etc that much :P installing apps and using the computer for some other app will eat a lot more cpu n shud cause the restart too then but its not :)

simple test, borrow a LAN card form one of ur friends and use it. (replace the intex) then try. that shud work. let me know :ohyeah:
 
General overheating, can cause all sorts of random crashes... it doesn't mean that the NIC card is the culprit I'm afraid.(but... it doesn't mean that it isn't either)

The best thing I could suggest is to pull all non-essential hardware and see if you are booting ok, if so, then put back the rest of the hardware piece by piece, and see which one causes instability.
 
Now, I'm pretty sure that the problem lies with the NIC cause I've tried all kinds of things to stress out the proccy.. Burned 3-4 DVDs back to back.. Converted 3 avi to vob using ConvertXtoDVD and kept the comp on for 12 hours at a stretch.. Nothing happened..

But as soon as I tried to access the shared movies folder on my comp from another comp, it restarted!!

@TheIndian - I replaced the card and even the slot, still I face the problem. Could there be something wrong with the chipset?
 
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