Re: Spontaneous Reboot
- From: "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:33:04 -0500
"Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ezpuN7yAIHA.2268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have recently carried out some 'upgrades' to my machine and now it occasionally reboots for no obvious reason. The 'upgrades' include increasing RAM from 1 to 2MB, changing a HDD from 80GB to 320GB and the addition of a PCI SATA Card. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro and the CPU an Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz with WINXP Pro SP2. The original system using 2 Maxtor 80GB SATA HDD and 1MB RAM performed without fault for the past 3 years.
The upgrades were phased. The RAM was added first and there was no problems with about two weeks operation. I then obtained a 320GB SATA Seagate Barracuda 16MB cache and as only two SATA ports are available on the MB, a 'no name' VIA VT6421 PCI SATA Card was installed. Initially I connected the new HDD to the 'SATA Card' and that configuration was trouble free for about 2/3 days. I then cloned the OS from a Maxtor HDD to the Seagate HDD and 'swapped' the drives so the Seagate 320GB drive is connected to a one board SATA port and the 80GB connected to the PCI SATA Card. It was at this point the 'spontaneous' rebooting occurred. The first time it happened I put it down to a 'spike' in the electrical supply but it has happened twice since then and I think the machine is at fault but am at a loss to understand what the problem might be. These 'reboots' do not seem to be related to a particular event, for example the most recent occurred when reading an online newspaper, the previous when running True Image imaging a drive, neither onerous operations for the machine. The events are separated by up to 24 hours so 'overheating' does not seem to be a culprit.
Can anyone offer an explanation or where to start troubleshooting?
Check the Event Viewer:
Click Start > Run, type in: eventvwr.msc and press Enter or click Ok.
Expand the event viewer window.
Click once on either Applications or System in the Left pane.
Double click on an error listed in the Right pane to bring up a details window.
Click the link if present at the end of the description to a page with a "possible
solution".
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