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My computer keeps restarting (via hardware I think!!)
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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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:37:02 +0100, "Ant" <1@1.com> wrote: Did you check the fans? Check temps and voltages?>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 > 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. "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message Thanks for the reply.news:ojm8519lnuha7mv0om4s0l8eqld0l9jt9v@4ax.com... > 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. 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 Show quoteHide quote "Ant" <1@1.com> wrote in message news:d31m9k$njt$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk... > "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message > news:ojm8519lnuha7mv0om4s0l8eqld0l9jt9v@4ax.com... > >> Did you check the fans? Check temps and voltages? >> My first guess would be that your CPU is overheating, but it >> could only be a guess since you didn't provide a lot of >> info. > Thanks for the reply. > > Fans are fine, I actually have the side of my case off at the mo, CPU temp > at 57ºC. > > Im thinking it might be my hard drive, not sure, Ill see what scandisk has > to say. Or are there any more thorough harddrive scanners out there? > > Thanks > Smith wrote:
> Do you have the "Auto Restart" if there's a problem option checked? If you My it was the PS the first time. Several times it was the a HD but it > do uncheck it, see if you can get an error message instead of > an annoying reboot. Besides that, when my computer started rebooting > itself it turned out to be my RAM. Run http://www.memtest86.com/ or > something, test the memory. restarted to a check drive screen but that was a not booting proper issue I believe. J. Show quoteHide quote > > "Ant" <1@1.com> wrote in message > news:d31m9k$njt$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk... >> "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message >> news:ojm8519lnuha7mv0om4s0l8eqld0l9jt9v@4ax.com... >> >>> Did you check the fans? Check temps and voltages? >>> My first guess would be that your CPU is overheating, but it >>> could only be a guess since you didn't provide a lot of >>> info. >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> Fans are fine, I actually have the side of my case off at the mo, >> CPU temp at 57ºC. >> >> Im thinking it might be my hard drive, not sure, Ill see what >> scandisk has to say. Or are there any more thorough harddrive >> scanners out there? Thanks "Smith" <rangerxl***@cox.net> wrote in message news:fV55e.3826$NM.1278@lakeread04...> Do you have the "Auto Restart" if there's a problem option checked? If I did have that checked!! And now since unchecking it it hasnt once crashed.> 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 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. Show quoteHide quote "Ant" <1@1.com> wrote in message news:d33h77$b7d$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk... > "Smith" <rangerxl***@cox.net> wrote in message > news:fV55e.3826$NM.1278@lakeread04... >> 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 > > I did have that checked!! And now since unchecking it it hasnt once > crashed. > > Thanks for pointing that out to me > 
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