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Machine reboots at random
I have a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP-A board with an Athlon XP 2600 cpu. Several weeks ago it began rebooting at random. This began occuring after I got my machine up to date with its antivirus softare (Norton). Previously the machine would simply hang whenever I tried to play a video. The OS is Windows 2000 Pro. I think that my video card is failing/overheating (it's an nVidia Riva TNT 64 card), but someone that I talked to said it's a virus. Norton has cleaned/quarantined all viruses/worms so I don't give that diagnosis much weight. Any ideas?
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The CPU is reading 44 degrees celsius, and the the cpu fan rpm's are in the three thousands. The system fan that is monitored is running at about 1500rpm and the sytem temp (inside the case) is a few degrees under the cpu temp.
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Thank you much. : )
It won't solve the problem, but if you are getting a BSoD, and Windows is automatically restarting, it could give a clue as to what is really going on.