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Tech Clinic / restarts

« on: January 22, 2006, 12:16:54 AM »

Restarting problem.
Components:

Cube Parts (all new)
Aspire X-Qpack - Clear Windows & 420W Blk/Blue (case) / custom 420 Watt Power Supply

Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Socket 478 Motherboard

Intel Celeron 340 2.93Ghz 533FSB Socket 478

Ultra 256MB PC2100 DDR 266MHz

pqi POWER Series 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 266 (PC 2100) System Memory

DIAMOND Stealth S85AGP Radeon 9250 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card

a few days ago my computer was just restarting on its own when I wasn’t doing anything and sometimes when I was.

Option1.
I went into my computer  propertiesadvanced  unchecked the restart option on error

Result:
 No luck

Option2.
I thought it might be the heat
Its running at 29-30 degrees C which is 86 degrees. The shut off is 140 degrees Fahrenheit. So I shut off that option in the BIOS

Result:
No luck

Option 3
I thought it might be the RAM so I tried each of them seperatly with the same result occurring each time

Option 4.
I thought it might be a windows xp registry issue, So I reinstalled a fresh copy.

Result:
Interestingly enough, it made it through the installation with no restarts. However, I went to plug in my usb flash drive to install antivirus software (before I was on the internet) and it restarted instantly when I plugged it in.

Another interesting thing was that each time I tried to update drivers for the onboard soundcard it would restart. So I uninstalled the driver completely. It would make it all the way into XP and then as windows searches for the driver, and then when it said your hardware is blah blah…RESTARTED

So I disabled the soundcard in the bios. This game me roughly 25-30 minutes of no restarts but then it did it again. Almost seeming more frequently


I’m at a total loss here….any help at all would be great, and I thank you in advance

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Tech Clinic / Constant restarts?

« on: January 21, 2006, 04:59:50 PM »

is this sounding more like a motherboard problem? I'm really not wanting to spend more money but you have to do what you have to do.

Any other input?

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Tech Clinic / Constant restarts?

« on: January 21, 2006, 03:06:18 AM »

something strange happened a bit ago. I disabled the onboard soundcard and it stopped rebooting ...for about 45 minutes. Then it just got in the kick of rebooting again and again

and to answer, I can't get the bios or anything updated because it reboots so often

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Tech Clinic / Constant restarts?

« on: January 20, 2006, 10:51:10 PM »

Another person said that it might be a conflict with my RAM. I tried them each individually with the same result as when their both together....anyone have any other sudgestions?

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Tech Clinic / Constant restarts?

« on: January 20, 2006, 09:43:02 PM »

someone here said that it might be my registry on windows that was acting screwy.

I totally reformatted my hard drive and installed it fresh. Once I had everything installed I poped in a USB flash drive so that I could install AVG antispyware on the computer. This instantly caused it to restart and since then its been doing the random restarts again

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Tech Clinic / Constant restarts?

« on: January 20, 2006, 04:38:09 PM »

Cube Parts (all new)
Aspire X-Qpack - Clear Windows & 420W Blk/Blue (case) / custom 420 Watt Power Supply

Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Socket 478 Motherboard

Intel Celeron 340 2.93Ghz 533FSB Socket 478

Ultra 256MB PC2100 DDR 266MHz

pqi POWER Series 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 266 (PC 2100) System Memory

DIAMOND Stealth S85AGP Radeon 9250 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card

Problem 1.

When I first put it together I could power on the machine but nothing would show on the monitor. The monitor was in working order. After placing the processor into a 2nd computer that confirmed that it wasn’t the problem. I replaced the mother board with this mach speed one. All the problems were solved.

Problem 2.

This is where it gets tricky; a few days ago my computer was just restarting on its own when I wasn’t doing anything and sometimes when I was. I went into my computer  properties  unchecked the restart option on error

Its running at 29-30 degrees C which is 86 degrees. The shut off is 140 degrees Fahrenheit

Anyone have any ideas at how to stop this, or what the cause may be?

Thanks in advance