Re: Occasional Spontaneous Reboots
From: X-ray Doc (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/19/04
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:52:53 -0700
The power supply is a Turbo-Cool 510 Deluxe, supposedly
510 watts average or up to 650 watts peak. You would
think that would be plenty, but my computer is maxed out
with components. What I didn't mention before, (because
I thought the power was OK) is that I also have a DVD
drive, CD-RW drive, DVD burner, floppy drive, SCSI PCI
card to control a scanner, the Platinum version of the
Audigy 2 (that comes with the front mounted drive bay
inputs), four UV cold cathodes, an LED light badge, a
Lian Li LCD temperature display and a third 7200 rpm
serial hard drive for data storage. By the way, all four
fans each have four LEDs. I know it sounds crazy, but I
was building a show computer. I think the positioning of
the fans should be fine. There are two at the bottom
front that pull air over the three hard drives, one
exhaust below the power supply and one exhaust blow
hole. My Lian Li CPU temperature probe never reads above
120 degrees Fahreinheit, but it is actually taped to the
CPU heatsink and probably doesn't give an accurate CPU
temperature.
>-----Original Message-----
>Sounds like too much Heat or too little Power...
>
>PC Power and Cooling is top of the line -- what is the
Watt rating of your
>PS? With all those fans and two Raptor HDs, you should
have at least 400
>Watts. If you also have a DVD drive and a CD burner,
bump it up to 450
>Watts
>
>Don't forget that those Raptors generate a lot of heat --
do you have
>drive-bay fans to keep them cool?
>Are your case fans configured properly to move air
through the case, over
>the components, and out again? Fans in front should
pull cool air into the
>case, fans in back should pull warm air out of the case
>
>Good luck,
>
>steve
>
>"X-ray Doc" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:0c2501c425c4$d417be00$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello. I built my own computer using a Gigabyte GA-
8KNXP
>> mobo, 3.0c GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB of Kingston PC3500 Dual
>> Channel RAM, an ATI All-in-wonder 9800 Pro, Audigy 2
>> soundcard, and a quality PC Power and Cooling PSU.
>> Windows XP Pro is installed on a RAID 0 array of two
>> Western Digital Raptors. Every once in a while,
usually
>> while I'm gaming, the computer will suddenly reboot
>> spontaneously. I have four case fans that run full
speed
>> in an aluminum case. I do not overclock anything. I
>> can't imagine that something is overheating, but the
>> sporadic nature of the problem occurring while gaming
>> makes me wonder. I had similar reboots with this
>> computer until finally the mobo died. I replaced the
>> mobo under warranty, it worked again fine, but now I'm
>> seeing the reboots again. Any ideas what might be
>> wrong? Is something overheating? Is it RAM voltage?
>> Please help!
>
>
>.
>
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