so i have noticed another thing to consider worrying about with my new pc

i have seen it randomly restart without prompting me twice, very fast, no windows shutting down, no prompting, no blue screen. once when i was playing TR legend, another time i was just browsing the forum

thing is i don't know why

most people may say psu or temperature, but quite a few people have said my psu should be fine for my rig, even taking into account that new high-power video cards recommended minimum is that the psu can handle +12V is 26A, and for sli 35A

If it were a heat or voltage issue i believe my mobo would let me know by beeping, but i havent had that prior to the crashes

So i have decided to disable the auto restart in recovery options in control panel > system, see if i get a blue screen if it happens again...

but has anyone got any other ideas of what might be causing it?

I also dont think it was a power cut as the t.v. or lights didnt go out.


my specs

ABIT KN9 SLI, nForce 570 SLI,Socket-AM2, DDR2, 2XGbLAN, Firewire, ATX, 2xPCI-Ex16

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4GHz Socket AM2, 512KB, BOXED w/fan

Antec Sonata II Miditower, Black w/450W PSU

Corsair TWIN2X 5400 DDR2, 2048MB PC5400 Kit w/two matched CM2X1024-5400C4 Dimm's

NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x, Dual, Black OEM

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

XFX GeForce 7900GT 256MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI

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I had that as well,

alot of dust had got everywhere, when it was cleaned out then problem had gone away.

biggest issues was BF2 and HL2 GFX hungry applications.

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Mike what PSU you got? pls dont say a cheapy £8 one from ebuyer

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lol no

smart power 2 ... came with antec sonata 2

450 watts

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0xC00000005

0x8053CPC0

0x8CZ95CF0

0x00000000


Ok so i had another blue screen when i tried to launch a game application
with mentioned hex above

since then i have just burned and ran

the windows memory test AND Memtest86.iso
Neither of which have detected Errors....

Yet the hex blue screen code suggests Ram and Processors errors?
The memory test is supposed to detect mobo, processor and Ram i think...so i really don't know what the problem is

will keep eye out for further errors :/

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Overheating CPU?

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The Road!

i checked the temperatures...All seem fine

28 degrees CPU
34 degrees system
36 degrees PWM

..warning levels are 2-3 x those values..

voltage also fine..

fans fine..

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tbh Antec Smartpower 450W is about as good as a Truepower 330W. Sorry

its smart power 2 if that makes any difference

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I must admit I have no idea on this one. I once noticed my cpu temp was about 85 and rising fast, then remembered to turn on my water pump, Lucky for me after bootup the temp monitor pops up as a warning. Still there was no rebooting or blue screens, I guess if I had run an app it may be different but I gotta say this doesn't seem like overheating. When I OC too much, benchies just hang but never reboot.

Have you done any overclocking, If so did you remember to lower the HT multiplier (5X -> 4X)? If the HT runs much over 1000MHz it can cause "problems", Sorry dude no idea.

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Don't worry Sony, I'll just cancel my date of birth and get a new one.

no overclocking

only tweak i have done

is Adding more Virtual memory using HDD, apparently this is better for the ram, and prevents damage etc.

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make sure the reset button isn't shorting, or the connection on the motherboard - very unlikely, but possible.

Also, reinstall windows

gotta be worth a try

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Mike at a slight hunch I would say your power supply is not up to the job. The card you have says MINIMUM 400W, rememeber you are running ur processor, motherboard, hdds etc on the rest of the power.

When you play games i believe its crashing because the graphics card is sucking more power from the psu which it just cant deliver and so it trips the card out (hence the blue screens)

Remember those HEX codes could be reffering to memory and processor errors on the graphics card (because its corrupts when it doesnt get enough power)

I would say go and get yourself at least a 500W PSU by someone like ENERMAX (I use these never had a problem once) (http://www.enermax.co.uk/products/psu/l ... /index.asp)and see if this solves the problem. This may sound patronising but you have plugged in the relevant PCI-E power and Processor power?

Hope this helps mate


EDIT If this doesnt fix it, send the PSU back then RMA the graphics card and get a new one of those. Thats pretty much the only thing I can think of

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ever defending that PSU...but me and mike have essentially same specs - cept he has faster CPU and 2x ram, and mine has faster GPU, but it runs absolutley fine...

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