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Sinkalip · 06-07-2003, 02:47 PM

Right click on My Computer, then Manage. Under System Tools is the Event Viewer.Click the "+" and select System. Look for any errors, but more importantly look for memory dumps. If you have it set to halt on errors, but get nothing on the screen, perhaps it's more serious.

It sounds like memory to me as well. Try memtest86 or something like that. What makes me think that it is the memory is the random reboots. Another sure sign is bad data on the hard drive (If you seem to get alot of corrupt files) as most harddrives use some sort of DMA mode (Direct Memory Access) nowdays.

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Sinkalip Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Under the bed Posts: 62	Right click on My Computer, then Manage. Under System Tools is the Event Viewer.Click the "+" and select System. Look for any errors, but more importantly look for memory dumps. If you have it set to halt on errors, but get nothing on the screen, perhaps it's more serious. It sounds like memory to me as well. Try memtest86 or something like that. What makes me think that it is the memory is the random reboots. Another sure sign is bad data on the hard drive (If you seem to get alot of corrupt files) as most harddrives use some sort of DMA mode (Direct Memory Access) nowdays. Last edited by Sinkalip; 06-07-2003 at 02:59 PM.