spontaneous resets????

[Gh0st]

Hey all, for some reason sometimes when i disconnect from the internet or shut down a program through the close program box, my computer just suddenly and abruptly resets!!!
Its very annoying, any suggestions??
Thanx

P3-450 128ram 16meg g400 sb live

[Rags]

Sounds like a sure sign of a flakey DIMM.

Rags

[Nuno]

What Rags said, plus the cpu overheating, plus a faulty mobo, plus a weak power suply.

[RAB]

In other words, a little more system info would be helpful. Any other cards, modem, network, etc. (with brand names) and what slots they are in. Motherboard model, too.

But first and easiest is to turn off DMA on your CD/DVD-ROM drive in Device Manager. If that doesn't fix it, then your system details would be helpful.

RAB

[This message has been edited by RAB (edited 09 February 2000).]

[Jammrock]

A non-hardware solution may be a virus or a faulty OS install. If you do not have a virus scanner installed you can download a free trial version @ www.mcafee.com or www.symantec.com .

Jammrock

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Athlon 650, Biostar motherboard, 128 MB RAM, 27GB & 9 GB WD Expert HDD's, Plextor 8/4/32 CD-RW, CL 6x DVD, G400 32 MB DH, SB Live!, LinkSYS LNE 10/100 NIC, DigiCom 56k modem, modified Addtronics case.

[This message has been edited by Jammrock (edited 09 February 2000).]

[Gh0st]

Ok you guys asked for more info so here it is

Intel P3-450 128 meg ram(dont know what brand)
Gigabyte BX mobo(i think), Matrox G400 16 meg, Soundblaster Live! Value, Acer 50x CD-ROM, HP CD-Writer Plus 7500 Series, both USB ports used by peripherals, 250 watt( i think)PS, generic floppy drive, and i think thats about it.
Sorry for the "i think"s but i bought my system as a package and i am not positive about some of the model numbers. Hope this helps!!
PS Thanks for all the suggestions guys

[Nuno]

Just curious, your G400 is recognised in the device manager as a Matrox G400 or as a GA-MGA400 ?

[Gh0st]

I looked in device manager and it is recognized as 'Matrox Millenium G400-English'
:P

[The Rock]

Funny thing; this reboot happens to me sometimes when I start up a game under Windows 2000. But only sometimes. And usually at the time I have Agent downloading something in the background. Bizarre, but it doesn't happen too often.

The Rock