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Old 01-20-2004, 06:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Gaming Computer Randomly Restart

Hey, I have a

Circero (future shop) XP
AMD 2400+
FX 5200 128 meg
512 RAM

I've had it for about 3 months - and a few weeks ago every so often the computer restarts. I've been told it's shortage of power, but i'm not to sure
It's not a virus
Also no warning or anything comes up, just restarts
any help?

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Old 01-20-2004, 06:46 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Any idea what temperatures you are running at? Possible heat problem, or like you said-power supply. My computer did the same exact thing. I would be surfing the web or something and it would just restart. But it was an eMachines so it had an excuse.
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Old 01-20-2004, 06:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
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what are the specs on your power supply ?
also whats the full specs of your system
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umm, not sure of temperature
if you mean inside no not sure
but outside my room is usually pretty warm with comp and tv in same small room
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How do i find my full specs on both of those?
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the power supply should have a sticker on it saying what the voltage rails are .

and when i say full specs on your system i mean whats the video card , what are the harddrives and how many . what and how many optical(cd) drives are in it .
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It just restarted again

Thank you for submitting an error report. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with specific information about how to resolve this problem at this time. The information that you and other users submit will be used to investigate this problem.

Analysis

A device driver installed on your system caused the problem, but we cannot determine the precise cause.
It had this error it restarted

My video card is from the FX series, the 5200...not sure what else to say
I have one C: 80gigs, one CD ROM (dvd and burner in one)
I will find out voltage soon
thanks
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Old 01-20-2004, 07:18 PM   #8 (permalink)
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sounds to me like the power supply is going out . i find that most the time with this kinda problem thats what it is . bad ram will do this also . but most of the time it is the power supply .
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Anything i can do to help it?
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Have a spare power supply laying around to see if it is in fact the power supply?

BTW, how often does it restart on you?
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