PC keeps shuttig down/rebooting

[Rich Czuba]

I have a Win-XP PC based on a soyo mb and an athlon 1.33 processor. It has
been running fine for about 2 years. This past week, it began doing
stop/system dumps and, at times, just rebooting. The system also is now
prone to freezing up at times throughout the day. Here is what I have
looked at so far:

1) Done numerous virus scans with 2 different programs (AVG & Avast) and
up-to-date virus databases. No viruses were found.

2) Ran both DocMem and Memtest for a couple of hours each with no memory
errors.

One other clue seems to be that it reboots most frequently in the first hour
or so after I turn the on PC in the morning.

I am wondering what to do next. Could a bad power supply cause this or do I
need to replace the MB or CPU? What would the experts on this newsgroup do?

thanks,

rich c

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[Mitchua]

I have a Win-XP PC based on a soyo mb and an athlon 1.33 processor. It has
been running fine for about 2 years. This past week, it began doing
stop/system dumps and, at times, just rebooting. The system also is now
prone to freezing up at times throughout the day. Here is what I have
looked at so far:

1) Done numerous virus scans with 2 different programs (AVG & Avast) and
up-to-date virus databases. No viruses were found.

2) Ran both DocMem and Memtest for a couple of hours each with no memory
errors.

One other clue seems to be that it reboots most frequently in the first hour
or so after I turn the on PC in the morning.

I am wondering what to do next. Could a bad power supply cause this or do I
need to replace the MB or CPU? What would the experts on this newsgroup do?

Sounds like a bad power supply to me. I find the cheap ones usually start
messing up after 1 year so you've got a good life out of this one. A few
months ago my comp was just turning off whenever it was shook a little (e.g.
just touching the case). Turned out to be a bad power supply.

If you have another lying around, pop it in and see what happens.
Otherwise, I'd buy a cheap one ($20) with a full return policy and try it
out. You may want to wait for someone else to agree with me in the ng first


--Mitchua

 

[ToolPackinMama]

I have a Win-XP PC based on a soyo mb and an athlon 1.33 processor. It has
been running fine for about 2 years. This past week, it began doing
stop/system dumps and, at times, just rebooting. The system also is now
prone to freezing up at times throughout the day. Here is what I have
looked at so far:

1) Done numerous virus scans with 2 different programs (AVG & Avast) and
up-to-date virus databases. No viruses were found.

2) Ran both DocMem and Memtest for a couple of hours each with no memory
errors.

One other clue seems to be that it reboots most frequently in the first hour
or so after I turn the on PC in the morning.

I am wondering what to do next. Could a bad power supply cause this or do I
need to replace the MB or CPU? What would the experts on this newsgroup do?

Did you recently load/update applications or drivers? Could be a
software problem.

 

[Bishoop]

| I have a Win-XP PC based on a soyo mb and an athlon 1.33 processor. It
has
| been running fine for about 2 years. This past week, it began doing
| stop/system dumps and, at times, just rebooting. The system also is now
| prone to freezing up at times throughout the day. Here is what I have
| looked at so far:
|
| 1) Done numerous virus scans with 2 different programs (AVG & Avast) and
| up-to-date virus databases. No viruses were found.
|
| 2) Ran both DocMem and Memtest for a couple of hours each with no memory
| errors.
|
| One other clue seems to be that it reboots most frequently in the first
hour
| or so after I turn the on PC in the morning.
|
| I am wondering what to do next. Could a bad power supply cause this or do
I
| need to replace the MB or CPU? What would the experts on this newsgroup
do?
|
| thanks,
|
| rich c
|
| *remove "nospam" if replying by email*

Seeing that the system runs for "hours" doing memory testing I'd look
somewhere else. Try doing a "repair" install of WinXP.