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hi all

here a good question for you.

my problem is that my current pc reboots randomly, sometimes when
just sitting in desktop doing nothing, sometimes when in ie, sometimes
when downloaded, but never when playing a game, which to me suggests that it isnt a heat problem.ive changed the psu and it still happens, ive also swopped the ram and it still happens. it doesnt reboot that often, about once a day. i am constantly running ad-aware and spybot, and i am running norton av.
not sure what to try next?

thanks in advance
 
What heatsink/fan are you using to cool the XP2200?

Do you know the current temperature of the XP2200?

This prob is most commonly caused by CPU overheating but there are many other reasons that could cause it. Any more clues? Does it crash when you're using or just after using one particular piece of software for instance?
 
The 2200 will only really be overheating at above 75 or 80 degrees (i had the 2100 and its pretty similar)

possibly a mobo prob? windows?
 
Turn off advanced power management in Windows, unlikey this will be the problem, but you've tried alot of other stuff I would have suggested.
 
Whos motherboard are you using ...

Also turn off 'auto restart' ...

click on the Start button.
- right click on the My Computer item in the Start Menu.
- select Properties
- click on the Advanced tab.
- click the button for Settings under Startup and Recovery.
- click to remove the check mark next to Automatic Restart.
- click OK.

... how is the PC powered, is it on an extension off another extension?
 
i would like to place a £10 bet that if mucks advice is followed it will not reboot, you should then get a blue screen!
 
me too

Its a windows XP thing - upon blue screen it is by default told to restart. Turning this off will just mean you have the BSOD, which could actually be a good thing as you can note down the error message and tell us what it is.
 
I'll elaborate on the above two posts ...

... in turning off 'reboot on errors' we get to see the BSOD (blue screen of death) and hopefully see information on the error that may be causing the reboot.

If you do get to see it, please tell us exactly, word for word, what it says ... this will help us determine what, if any, is causing your system to reboot.
It could just be a bad power supply.



;)
 
christopherpostill said:
The 2200 will only really be overheating at above 75 or 80 degrees (i had the 2100 and its pretty similar)
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I would beg to differ on that one.

I've had problems with AMD CPU's that would sometimes spontaneously cause a reboot if they went above 62C.

And yes, I agree about the disabling of auto-restart, I had a similar problem once and being able to read the error message on resultant 'hung' BSOD enabled me to solve prob.
 
I had a 2100 that would regulary run at over 80 degrees when gaming and it was really stable in fact i had it a year and it didnt crash very often.

I was worried when it hit 70 but i checked on the AMD web-page and aparently no damage will occur until temperatures hit 90 degrees.

It was the standard, non palomino, regular AMD Athlon 2100 1.7GHz
 
hi
right here goes
the motherboard is gigabyte 7nnxp.
just stopped playing doom 3 and cpu is 29c
and m/board 42c.
i am using a stock cooler.
dont know if this helps but it will definately rebbot when
burning a cd using ahead nero 5.5 on a lg re-writer.
the pc is powered from a 4way surge protecter to the case.
auto restart is off.
hope this helps
 
christopherpostill said:
I had a 2100 that would regulary run at over 80 degrees when gaming and it was really stable in fact i had it a year and it didnt crash very often.

I was worried when it hit 70 but i checked on the AMD web-page and aparently no damage will occur until temperatures hit 90 degrees.

It was the standard, non palomino, regular AMD Athlon 2100 1.7GHz
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Well I'll be blowed. Unusual. I do know about AMD's 90C limit but in practice the chip will suffer at a lesser temperature than that.

Still, you live and you learn, that must have been quite an exceptional chip Chris, good stuff.
 
well i guess it was ok - it was ALWAYS on standard voltage and NEVER overclocked and i was scared it would catch fire at those temps so i even bought a bigger heatsink and that didnt make a difference.

It was a faaast computer though, had it a year, served me well, sold it to a dads mate for £430 which i heard was really cheap but i could have got it new again for that, i think.
 
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