Sarge75801
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Rebooting Problem
About a month ago, I began having problems with my computer rebooting. It was as if someone had just hit the reset button. This doesn't appear to be an overheating problem, because it happens anywhere from 3 minutes after I get booted up, to more than an hour before it happens. I installed a new power supply, and this did not help. i thought I might have a virus, but have run 4 different virii checkers and found nothing. To date, I have replaced all but the floppy drive and the CPU chip, an AMD Athlon 1200MHz, and the CD-RW drive. There is another computer plugged in on the same circuit, so I am doubtful of line voltage problems. Can a faulty CPU chip cause this rebooting?
Glen A.
You've replaced the board as well?
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While a bad CPU may cause this a MUCH MORE LIKELY problem here (in my experience) is BAD RAM.
If you have multiple modules, try them one at a time and see if the problem moves with one module.
If not, try getting or borrowing another module and try it alone.
I'm guessing that you'll see that RAM is the problem.
If you have multiple modules, try them one at a time and see if the problem moves with one module.
If not, try getting or borrowing another module and try it alone.
I'm guessing that you'll see that RAM is the problem.
By the way, the statement:
>When memory goes bad the machine will generally crash.
Is a gross generalization. I would say that a correct version of this is:
"When memory goes bad the results are totally unpredictable."
>When memory goes bad the machine will generally crash.
Is a gross generalization. I would say that a correct version of this is:
"When memory goes bad the results are totally unpredictable."
more of a 'sweeping generalization' but in my experience rebooting is not as common a side effect of flaky memory as a hot processor or bad VR's on a mobo.
My opinion vs. your opinion. Hopefully we'll see shortly.