Help! random restart's

roughlad · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:51

Built a system for the wife to play gws,surf ect, spec:
Intel Celeron Dual Core E3400 "LGA775" 2.60GHz (800FSB)
Corsair Value Select 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C4 667MHz Dual Channel
Asus P5QPL-AM Intel G41 (Socket 775) DDR2 microATX Motherboard

The system restarts randomly (checked temps there ok)
ran memtest, occt, burn test all pass.
tried a second psu/changed ram for spares.

Does anyone have any ideas what else could be causing this as it's starting to get on my nerves.

sas30uk · 7 Jan 2011 at 00:10

Stupid question but i had the same thing happen to me a while back and it was because my heatsink was not fastened down tightly to the CPU/Motherboard ?

Maybe as a last resort is a format and see how it goes then ?

roughlad · 7 Jan 2011 at 00:33

formatted it 3 times, changed 2 spare hd.

sas30uk · 7 Jan 2011 at 00:48

Are you getting any blue screen of deaths ?

Does it random restart if its just left idling or is it while your playing games etc ?

roughlad · 7 Jan 2011 at 00:55

no blue screens just straight restart, happens anytime, i was playing gws for 30 40 min and fine then watched a vid on youtube and then it crashed. but its never died when running tests.

Buchanan0204 · 7 Jan 2011 at 01:32

Try running the system outwith the case. Sometimes this can be the culprit due to shorts etc.

If all is well, when putting it back in, check to make sure no component is touching the metal part of the case, i.e mobo.