10-28-2004, 05:05 PM
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Evenly Divided
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Computer keeps rebooting...
Hey guys,
Purchased a new video card, ram and power supply yesterday. Installed it all last night and then formatted my comp.
Now it's rebooting randomly...
Where should I begin when it comes to troubleshooting this?
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10-28-2004, 05:07 PM
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Disabled
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I have had this problem, The cause for mine was the graphics card driver not being stable with xp. Then even when I took the driver of it carried on so I scrapped xp and now I have lindows lol. But xp on the other one 
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10-28-2004, 05:13 PM
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Hmmm....
Any enthusiasts know of the most stable driver for:
ATI Radeon X800 Pro ? Also, I loaded DirectX 9.0c ... was that ok?
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10-28-2004, 05:23 PM
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An Awesome Dude
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Boy i've heard of more problems with XP than any other OS.....
Why bother???????
In my opinion,these are the BEST os's:
98se (Which i run,i love 98!!)
2000
Linux
Lindows
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10-28-2004, 05:27 PM
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Never EVER had an issue like this with XP before and we've been running it since it was released.
I just called www.nerdsonsite.com and am waiting to hear back if they can get me a technician for tonight.
I'm assuming my buddy buggered something when he installed my new PS, but I'm not that great with hardware, so couldn't tell you what if anything
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10-28-2004, 05:32 PM
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I never had a problem with xp either and I had it since it was released on all my computers, But since last week all the xp computers have all started rebooting continualy and safemode doesnt load up, therefore having to reformat. I now prefer linux OS's
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10-28-2004, 05:32 PM
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Hey Mekhu,
Let us know what the issue was and the proposed solution...when you find out
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10-28-2004, 05:37 PM
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Will definatley post up what the issue is... It must be the video card... only thing I can think of. Will let you all know though.
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10-28-2004, 05:55 PM
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Mekhu - I had a problem with the video card, getting the drives working for about 10 minutes, what you need to do is erase any other video drivers on your comp including those ones, stick the CD with the radeon drivers in it, reboot your comp, it will sit at a black screen, then reboot again and it should work fine. Let it sit at the black screen for a few mins, that got mine working fine.
BTW - you going to HostingCon? I'm driving..
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10-28-2004, 05:59 PM
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The Top Dog
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There has been a virus going around which reboots your PC randomly .. maybe that could be it ...
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10-28-2004, 06:10 PM
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Web Hosting Master
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I have had the issue before, most of the time it was simply running out of power on full power, since I had a powerful workstation it was quite common, I removed some of the useless fans, along with a cd-rw drive (which I never used anyways) now it works just fine
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10-28-2004, 06:22 PM
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HBN, I think I'll give that a shot in a moment. Seems N.O.S haven't called back so I'd love to try and get this fixed tonight. I'll give the driver thing a shot in a moment. As for hosting con, care to pm me some info... didn't even hear about it 
Web, I thought that's what it could have been also, so I purchased a Pro license for AVG and it hasn't brought up anything after 2 scans.
Aea, I really don't think that can be the issue as the reboots are happening even while just browing the web. I also purchased a 480W true power supply yesterday and was told it was more then adequate for my system...
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10-28-2004, 08:25 PM
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Web Hosting Master
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It could be NT giving a STOP error and rebooting on that.
Try hitting win+break (taking you to system), going to advanced, startup and recovery and then unticking 'Automatically Reboot'.
It may be a driver issue causing this, and windows is configured to reboot by default instead of showing you a blue screen of death with error information.
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10-28-2004, 08:32 PM
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Thanks Informity. I've now reloaded drivers many times, re-seated both sticks of RAM and it's still rebooting.
Oddly enough it only reboots when I begin mass downloading via torrent... possible it could be an issue with my network card?
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10-28-2004, 08:34 PM
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Web Hosting Master
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It could be some kind of conflict. You'll know if it's an NT error if you get a blue screen now instead of a reboot.
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