Random Restarts

[9mmCensor]

Ok, for the past few days I have been noticing my computer is randomly restarting itself. This is bad. And makes me very angry.

What are the possible causes?

Im gonna drop the OC to stock, but it has been colder lately, so I dont think its heat.

help.

[Brundle Fly]

Just before my old PSU did the fireworks display, that's what I got, random reboots, which got closer together, until it finally just started shooting out sparks one day.

[mils128]

9mm Do you Have SP1 or 2?

and does this happen on a full shutdown or hibernation/standby.

Does you motherboard have an onboard power switch

[9mmCensor]

9mm Do you Have SP1 or 2?

and does this happen on a full shutdown or hibernation/standby.

Does you motherboard have an onboard power switch
SP2.

just a complete reboot.

dont think so. nf7-s r2.

[Sentential]

SP2.

just a complete reboot.

dont think so. nf7-s r2.
My PC had *serious* issues with SP2. I'd try reformatting and check your voltage rails for and odd flucuation.

[9mmCensor]

Can I just uninstall SP2?

Reforming is a major PiTA.

[9mmCensor]

wait nevermind, I didn't put SP2 on this box.

[Diggrr]

Running memtest found my problem with reboots. Mine restarts without even going to the default scandisk, it just starts right up like when I hit the power button.
Memory incompatiblity w/my Asus board. My memory's actually good in another computer and will memtest all day and night.

Try it. It's free.

[9mmCensor]

Running memtest found my problem with reboots. Mine restarts without even going to the default scandisk, it just starts right up like when I hit the power button.
Memory incompatiblity w/my Asus board. My memory's actually good in another computer and will memtest all day and night.

Try it. It's free.
Would it be possible for a memory problem like this to manifest itself over a year of the box being built without an issue occuring?

I'll give it a go this weekend.

This Antec PSU better pray its not the cause or I am going to get medieval on it.

[Flanagun]

I'm gonna have to agree with those who have said psu. Every time I've had trouble with restarts it's been a psu problem.

[Diggrr]

Would it be possible for a memory problem like this to manifest itself over a year of the box being built without an issue occuring?

I'll give it a go this weekend.

This Antec PSU better pray its not the cause or I am going to get medieval on it.

Dunno, mine has been running for about 4 months and started rebooting on Saturday...Memtest won't even run on it now.

[sunrunner20]

I've noticed that even though all the other computer in the ENTIRE house(~6) stay on during minor power outages, way less than a second, my new desktop will reboot becuase it conusmes the buffer in the PSU to dang fast.
*needs a UPS*

[9mmCensor]

How (in)accurate is the bios voltage reporting.

This is what I got right after a restart.

+5 4.89
+12 11.67
(I/O) +3.3 3.15

Thats bad right?

[musawi]

All within spec though, your 3 volt rail just made it though!
Check with a multi meter.

[infinitevalence]

It could be worse, its not out of ATX specs yet, are you using a stock bios or moded bios, i found that the bios i was using for a very long time was unstable and with sp2 was causing random reboots, when i switched to a newer modded bios and did some serious stability testing everything worked. Make sure that under your My Computer properties and under advanced, startup and recovery, you dont have it set to automaticly restart after system failure. Thats what was happening to mine, it was BSODing and then rebooting instantly.

[9mmCensor]

Ran memtest on both sticks indivudaully, and found no errors.

[9mmCensor]

I emptyed a full can of compressed air into my case yesterday as well as resetting the ram and rewiring everything.

haven't had any more restarts - yet.

[9mmCensor]

I just checked, and saw that it was only one stick working, when there was two plugged in.

I shutdown, reseated the ram, and rebooted.

Now it wont even boot windows, with one stick in.

Motherboard dead?

[9mmCensor]

Frack I can boot into Linux on a seperate partition, but not windows.

Not even safe mode will work.

And I need to recover some data from the windows thinger, and really dont want to do a re-install.

[Diggrr]

That's what I keep a spare/old drive for...install it in the case as the primary drive and install windoze fresh on that, then you can read your cacked (once the master) drive as a slave and recover what you can to a CD.
Do this with a minimum of hardware needed for the job (video, ram, the two drives and a CD burner)

Them voltages look lower than I'd trust...you have a multimeter to test on a molex connector to see if it's the volts or the reporting that's bad?

I feel your pain bud. Chin up.

[deception``]

Before you even ask such questions, it would make sense to provide those helping you with a complete list of your specs and any other pertinent information.

deception``

[9mmCensor]

My specs are im my Profile.

Last night I reformated and reinstalled. I can now boot into windows :) I will do some more testing once I find the driver CD, and can connect to the net.

Still trying to get both sticks of ram to work, right now the mobo will take either one, but not both.