I think frequent restarts is in relation with CPU

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From: sean (seanyzor_at_aol.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:31:01 -0700

I have seen alot of people having the problem where their computer just turns off or restarts at random, listening to music, talking to friends, surfin the web, playing games, and boom just restarts. Well I have spent the past 5 hours trying to figure this problem out. At first it would just be when I was on everquest it would restart, then it was starting up everquest, then it would be loading eq, then it would be on aol, then it would be after logging in while starting up startup programs, thenit would be right after logging in, then before logging in, and now it is right about at the logging in time(logging in to windows and these are all when it restarts)

So it was gradually decreasing Cpu usage when it was restarted, first high usage, then it got lower and lower when it starts restarting, and it is only when it is doing something like loading up startup programs, etc.

So it must be in relation with the cpu, and if not there is no other reason I would see why it is doing this.

But how would I find out if this is true? I don't have another CPU to test out.. ;/

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