Computer Restarting Randomly

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Hello, I've became a recent poster on this board, but I'm having some trouble.

I've just formatted my computer, but instead of installing windows XP Professional, I've opted for Windows XP Home Edition with the latest SP2. I started playing battlefield 2, and it restarted itself, I have no idea why! So I ran the game again and it repeated itself, it does it when I'm actually playing the game, I have no idea why! If there's a sound playing when it restarts, it just repeats again and again!

Also, some additional information, I've just upgraded my memory to 2GB Corsiar. Prior to upgrading, I used 512 of bog-standard memory and sometimes I'd wake up to my computer and it would have a blue error screen, saying something about memory, and it had to close down. :cool:
 
My initial theory here would be either PSU not powerful enough, as it always seems to happen when your system is active, or the new RAM is buggered/too low latencies set/not enough ram voltage. Could be something else, but those would be things I'd look at straight off.
 
I've just ran prime's torture test 3 times, and got these errors:

CPU-Z Report:
Prime95 Errors:
Systool error:

Running at stock, so I dunno what's up.

Help is veyr much appreciated :(

I've also used memtest86 3.2 for 45minutes and the memory was fine!
 
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based on that, I'd suggest throwing your cpu a little more voltage in the bios, incase the mobo/psu is fluctuating and underpowering the cpu.

Crank the 1.40 to 1.45 and see if it seems any happier :)
 
Thanks for that mate, but I tried it and still no luck!

Here's the results from another Prime95 test.



Also, the PSU I'm using is a cheap iCute PSU, so I have no idea if that would be the problem, could it be that? Would/could/should Prime or Systool pick that up as a hardware error?

Thanks again for your input. ;)

Also, here's the temperatures according to Everest:



everest02yv5.jpg


It's quite worrying, but it could be the PSU, Any idea's?
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
based on that, I'd suggest throwing your cpu a little more voltage in the bios, incase the mobo/psu is fluctuating and underpowering the cpu.

Crank the 1.40 to 1.45 and see if it seems any happier :)
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Well going on the fact that a fluctuating PSU could cause this, and you have a cheap PSU, I guess I'd recommend you buy a new PSU and see if that solves anything.

Otherwise, you could try running your RAM at slower settings..? Make sure your mobo has detected the correct settings and is applying the correct voltage to the RAM.

Let us know what happens :-)
 
Seen drivers cause that with a number of ATI cards, and more namingly my old x1800xt.

Change the drivers and the problem went, certain versions though would blue screen just like that all the time.
 
I have an ATI x800(but it's flashed to x850XT).

It's the only thing not running at stock, my system goes as follows:

ATI Sapphire A9RX480 MoBo
WD 320 SATA
AMD SD3700+
cheap PSU.

Thanks again lads!
 
Just updated the drivers, ran Prime, and got this:



I did run Prime a few days ago, and it seemed stable for about 25minutes. Then I stopped it.
 
check event viewer!!

i been having the exact same problem as soon as i load up games and just randomly when on net
 
Just got another blue screen:



This ones a different error :(

Check the event management and got this:







Thanks for the help again lads!
 
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