Re: Computer reboots spontaneously

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:35:04 -0700, devon_banks wrote this:

I have had this computer for 3 years. About a year ago I replaced the PS.
Yesterday the thing just started rebooting on me spontaneously ( random
time intervals 2 - 15 min, didn't matter whether I had loaded X or not).
I am not that great with hardware so I wanted some feedback on my plan.
One thing I noticed is that I wasn't seeing CPU temperature in the BIOS.
I could see the motherboard temperature (94 F) but CPU temp "unavailable".

Fans all seem to be working okay.

1) Recheck connections on the motherboard. 2) Get another power supply.
If I have a PS tester which voltages should I be concerned with? I guess
I'm really wondering whether low voltage to the CPU is causing the
problem. If I use a PS tester should I just assume that everything is
good if it lights up green. A friend has a PS tester and it doesn't give
outputs just green or red.
3) Memory test.
Anything else?
I really don't have much patience for this. I'm hoping that with 4 hours
of work or less I can find the problem or decide to get new internals.
Is there any software I could download that would give me diagnostic
information. I'm thinking about something that could log to the hard
drive and after it reboots I could recover it and try and determine what
is going on.

My Nvidia AGP card failed PC wouldn't boot. Memtest for sure. My psu is
still suspect as one fan doesn't seem to be working but pc's been working
with the new ATI AGP card ( drivers were a bitch but it's working).
.

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