Random Restarts

[wafc]

Hi everyone,

I've just built a new PC, but i'm having problems with it. The first one i had was that Windows wouldn't install onto the new hdd. Once i got it to install and all set up i started to get other problems. My system just seems to restart for no reason. It's not over heating as it's 30C ide. It seems to do it a lot when i have music on, but still restarts when my PC isn't doing anything. Do you guys have any ideas what it could be?

Here is the spec:-

DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT

AMD X2 4400+

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro

2GB Samsung PC3200 Memory (2x 1028mb)

XFX GeForce 7800GTX Extreme XXX Edition 512MB

Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II

2x Maxtor 200GB SATA

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Sony CRX320E 52x32x52x16 CDRW/DVD

NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter

Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply

Logitech Z-5500 THX® Certified 5.1 505 Watts Speakers

Lian-Li PC V1000B PLUS

[Jim]

A couple of the things you might want to check/do are:

* Check that your voltages are ok and you havn't obtained a dodgy PSU.

* Check your ram timings and maybe loosen them a bit for testing purposes.

* In System Properties under Advanced, Startup/Recovery, uncheck the 'Auto restart' box. This will show the error instead of auto restarting.

* Try removing your non-essential components one-by-one to see if any of them are faulty (sound card, dvdrw, stick of memory...)

Let us know how you get on.

[FarFarAway]

Have you flashed to the latest BIOS for the Board?

[wafc]

ya i put the new bios on once i installed windows. How do i turn off the restart thing? Here are the volts i'm getting:-

[Jim]

Volts seem fine.

To turn off the auto restart thing do this:

Right click My Computer => Properties => Advanced => "Startup & Recovery" Settings => Uncheck "Automatically restart".

[wafc]

i've just got:-

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[FarFarAway]

Go to start>control panel>system>hardware>device manager>view>resources by connection>Interrupt Request

Then take a look-see if anything is sharing IRQ

I'd advise to run memtest86+ on tests 5 and 8 to see if you get any memory errors too

[wafc]

nothing is using IRQ

i'll run memtest in a bit and see. I'm thinking about just selling my memory and getting some more. Which works best on a DFI board?

[FarFarAway]

Well PQI are doing some good stuff but in the UK there's some good deals on GSkill HZ (or whatever) 2 x 1gb sticks or OCZ Gold VX 2 x 1gb Sticks.

I have Crucial Ballistix and its awesome RAM

[wafc]

i just want something that works with this board because it's really starting to bug me

edit: will these be any good: http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=316027&cks=PRL