Hello everyone
I’m not a native english speaker, so forgive my bad english.
I have the following, small problem. Once in a while, my computer reboots. This happens when I start the computer up, and right after I see ‘Memory testing OK’ the screen goes black and the PC reboots (ventilators start to spin 100 % etc). There are never problems after the reboot, it goes to Windows as it should.
This happens only once in a while (about 1 time a week) and never happens when I manually reboot in Windows or wake the pc from standby.
My friend who has the exact same configuration( we bought our PC’s together and I and another friend assebled them) never had this problem dicribed above. However, there are two differences:
* I have a MAXTOR external harddrive and he does not. I have not tried disconnecting this HD since I can hear it ‘spin up’ when the PC starts, even when it has the ‘reboot’-problem … .
* Also, I have a newer version of the motherboard’s BIOS … .
The good news is that the PC works like a dream ... . I have tested with memtest86 for 10 hours, stressed my video card for a few hours, run Prime95 and intelburntest for a few hours, scanned the HD’s, … . Every test is OK, temperatures are just fine etc. I also did a CMOS and loaded optimized and optimal defaults in the BIOS.
All my components have guarantee. The biggest problem is that I cannot reproduce the problem, if I took the PC to a PC shop chances are that the problem will not occur when they take a look at it … . I also would not like it to send a component for guarantee, because I have had a bad experience with this and apart from this problem the PC works just fine.
My questions:
* what could be the problem and
* the most important question, should I worry about it?
Many thanks for your answers!
Specs: Antec P182 - Intel i920 D0-stepping (@ stock), - Gigabyte X58 UDP4 - Scythe Mugen 2 - 3 x 2 Gb DDR3 Corsair 1333 MHz - Asus GTX 275 - 1 WD Caviar Green + 1 WD Caviar Black - Samsung 2433BW (1920 x 1200) - Logitech G5 Lasermouse - Logitech standard keyboard - OS: WinXp 32 bit
David - Belgium
