Occasional PC Rebooting

[andrewdodd13]

For some reason, my PC occasionally either reboots straight away, or hits a machine check exception when using SOB. Anyone any ideas why?

[vaughan]

What are the temperatures like? Might be getting too hot and triggering a reboot.

[Empty_5oul]

have a look in the bios as Vaughan says at the temperatures and voltages, make sure everyhting is in check and not jumping around.

[AMDave]

need more info to help
h/w specs, os version & svc pack
esp. SoB client version..

Try running something else on it and see if it still does it.

[vaughan]

Also do a thorough check for malware - run your spyware removal tools and do a full virus scan (update definitions first of course).
Check you have the latest updates from MS. Also install their new anti-spyware application.

[Keith75]

Could be power supply also.

[Empty_5oul]

thats why i said check the voltages in bios keith :thumbleft:

[Beerknurd]

I never have that problem, I have had my dell on for almost 2 weeks without a reboot and it's never given me a problem. I have had SOB running the whole time. It's got to be either the processor is getting too hot or your power supply is failing and causing the reboot.

[Beerknurd]

Also do a thorough check for malware - run your spyware removal tools and do a full virus scan (update definitions first of course).
Check you have the latest updates from MS. Also install their new anti-spyware application.


^^Bump^^

[andrewdodd13]

well its definetly not spyware, a) i don't use IE and b) i can tell when stuff like that is installed, i have a process monitor / guard.
i'll check out the voltages in the bios later, it's usually ~50c after running... i haven't made any changes to hardware...

AMD 2700+
2x256MB RAM chips, with a 128mb framebuffer shared.
2xDVD-ROM [1 is DVD-RAM]
1xHD
1xFloppy
its an nvidia graphics chip

if i remember back, im sure it done this when it was above 90% on a proth test the last time...

[AMDave]

Just to humour me, how old is the Mobo ?

[andrewdodd13]

errm... probably just over a year:
http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=49

[Keith75]

I have a machine at work that locks unexpectedly and finally figured out that it seemed to be the SOYO Motherboards on-board sound causing the problem.

Keith

[Empty_5oul]

one thing i have found is try the internal cabeling, make sure everyhting is plugged in properly.
-- a harddrive having the power cable worked loose means it will work sometimes but not others.

[rrcrain]

What OS are you running?

[andrewdodd13]

atm, im running windows xp, and i doubt it'll be loose cabling as the pc hasnt been opened since it was bought, but i'll check that anyway as i plan to install more ram soon :)

its quite strange it hasn't rebooted at all today which makes me think that a combination of apache server with mysql and sob seems to crash, as the two apart don't do it... strange...

[Empty_5oul]

i guess it could be the software mismatching then :S