My computer is ON 24/7, 365 days a year and runs perfectly. No BSOD's, I
take care of the software, full antivirus, latest security patches,
firewall, no dodgy hotbars, spyware whatsoever.
BUT when I shut that beast down for only a few hours (which only happens
every few months or so) it is damn hard to restart it! Yesterday I had to
try for a few hours and got to various stages. It froze when the graphic
card was counting the memory, it got all the way to WindowsXP and then just
went to a black screen to immediately start again (as if I had pressed the
reset button), then again froze at the first boot screen, got to WindowsXP
again and restarted (like a reset again). All in random order really, I
could not see a pattern. Mostly it got up to XP though and just reset
without warning.
The system consists of:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7NNXP
CPU: AMD Athlon 1.33GHz (which is really slow for that mobo)
RAM: 2x 256MB DDR (2100)
2 off IDE HDD (7200rpm):IDE 1 One IBM Deskstar 60GB (can't remember but
think about 3 years old)
IDE 2 One Western Digital 120GB (about
a year old)
1 DVD rom as slave on IDE1
1 Plextor CD burner (1210TA) as slave on IDE2
Any ideas?
Your advice is greatly appreciated!
Hans
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