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You could try updating the firmware on the vertex 3. They fixed it... for at least some of the victims. I hear it didn't work for everybody, though.
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Hi Blaylock,
Thanks for the response. I was actually away on a work project so wasnt near the PC for a little while. I have tested the RAM sticks in all the slots and its still causing random restarts. However something interesting happened when I returned home and switched the PC on.
My boot drive is a OCZ Vertex 3 SSD and all of a sudden the BIOS couldnt see it. As it happens I have an old Windows on one of my hard drives and that kicked in allowing me to get into Windows. The wife also reported that she got some wierd "Missing boot files" error which then randomly disappeared when she restarted the machine. At the moment the SSD power is on and I have checked the cables and the SATA ports on the mobo, so the only remaining culprit is that the SSD is dead. Is there anything else I can do to try and get the SSD to return to life as it does have a decent amount of info that I need to get back.
I am wondering if this was the problem all along. Maybe the random resets were due to the SSD slowly dying rathet than RAM or PSU. Is this plausible?