Pc Keeps Restarting

stickroad · 6 Jun 2007 at 19:41

Hey guys, right clocked my E6420 (you must know that by now

), i ran Small FFTs - Stress CPU last night for 9 Hours, no errors then when i woke up this morning i ran Blend - Stress CPU and RAM for the day till i came back from college, that was 9 hours as well no errors or anything.

Now that im home, i play a game, even just surfing the net, My PC restarts, which is a real shame.

CPU Frequency = 401 and the Vcore at 1.5 Volts :eek:

Memory = 1003 MHZ 4-4-4-12 with 2.25 Volts

Any ideas?

stickroad · 6 Jun 2007 at 20:42

Ok scrap what i said, the pc even restarts when everything is at stock.

Cob · 6 Jun 2007 at 21:14

Memtest your RAM.

stickroad · 6 Jun 2007 at 21:16

Cob said:
Memtest your RAM.

Yep already Ran Memtest, no errors.

Millwall.FC · 6 Jun 2007 at 21:38

whats your cpu' temps?

Chris1712 · 6 Jun 2007 at 21:39

Try and run some tests on your HDD's.
Are the restarts in windows or just generall bios/posting? If in windows check the error in the computer management.
PSU rails holding ok?

stickroad · 6 Jun 2007 at 21:45

Thanks for the replys guys. Cpu Temps fine, when running Orthos, stress testing programs etc.. 60 degrees and below and about 30 Idle, nothing to worry about at all.

The machine restarts when in windows. How would i check the Rails of my PSU and My Hard Disks?

Chris1712 · 7 Jun 2007 at 01:02

stickroad said:
Thanks for the replys guys. Cpu Temps fine, when running Orthos, stress testing programs etc.. 60 degrees and below and about 30 Idle, nothing to worry about at all.

The machine restarts when in windows. How would i check the Rails of my PSU and My Hard Disks?

First off check whats causing the restarts in windows....

Go to, i THINK (trying to remember XP here!)

start>right click my computer> manage> event viewer>errors

Something like that, check the details/properties of the errors at the time of the crash and post the results here.

Cyber-Mav · 7 Jun 2007 at 01:34

usually its the ram causing randon restarts. memtest is best run using test 5 for a good 100 passes, and run test 8 to see if you got command rate issues.

stickroad · 7 Jun 2007 at 01:46

Ok cool thanks everyone, will do that tommorrow, or later today.

Just seems funny, 18 Hours of stress testing, then as soon as i use the pc, Bam Restart. lol

netby · 7 Jun 2007 at 09:18

I mate

uhhhhmmm, my two kits of Ballistyx PC2 5300 give me some " funny jokes " like that you have ,after some 2/3 months running with 2.25V

but im memtest86( cd-boot) they shown a lot of errors within minutes
( of course i send both back to Crucial in RMA)

now I´m using a new kit of the same Ram at 333mhz,12-3-3-3 at 1.9V ,for a week now completely stable ( not one single problem like rebots, BSOD, or refusing to boot like before)

Angleboy · 7 Jun 2007 at 09:47

** not useing coretemp by any chance?

see here :-
http://www.alcpu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=237

i was useing it and (foolishly) placed it in my startup folder and it liked to cause a hard reboot quite often :mad:

so for now i dont use it

just a thought maybe you have the same issue!