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This has been happening for a couple weeks at least now and it's really pissing me off. For absolutely no reason, my computer reboots after I have it on for a while. Sometimes I'm downloading something, sometimes I'm watching a movie, and sometimes I'm not doing anything. I recently had a new dvd burner installed along with an extra stick of RAM. As well, the machine makes a bit more noise than it used it. The noise thing has been happening for at least a few months though.
I don't think it's a high temperature in the case since I ran ASUS Probe and everything seems to be fine. My guess is it's the power supply. Anyone have any thoughts? I'd like to have a second opinion before I go and spend almost $100 on a new power supply!
It's almost never the power supply. Check the capacitors on your motherboard for bulging or leaking. That was the cause of death of my Pentium 3 system. Fucking IBM and their shitty hardware...
to elaborate a bit more, does it go through the normal windows shutdown/restart process or is it an abrubt restart back to POST?
check some recent software you may have installed such as shareware and whatnot. my last problem which is similar to yours (computer kept restarting after logging in) ended up being caused by a program called "freeram xp" which after it was uninstalled, everything was back to normal.
One of my computers does that too. It's happened before when I've bumped the desk or ejected a floppy. Sometime It does it for not reason at all. I'm guessing its the PSU
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Out of the hundred or so systems I've worked on since January, it has never been the PSU, nor in any of my own systems, although in my former ignorance, I wasted money replacing several, throwing out perfectly good ones that I need now.
See, in my P3 system, IBM got a bunch of fuxxed up capacitors from some Taiwanese company who had gotten the formula from that dude who stole a botched recipe from a Japanese company. All the capacitors on the board are leaking. The system will function in bios, dos, Windows setup text menu, but as soon as anything other than the Windows loading screen would appear, REBOOT. Before that, it would just reboot whenever it felt like it, sometimes not for days on end, though, so it made it really difficult to troubleshoot.
