Random Reboot

[ShortAlieN]

so when I'm folding, my computer randomly reboots, not often every couple of days or so. Not sure what is causing it. Not getting any error messages, Temps are fine. Even running stress tests like prime and furmark reveal nothing so far. anyone have any ideas. It does it only when I'm folding though and doesn't seem to matter if I'm running SMP & GPU, just SMP or just GPU. Kind of odd. I'm thinking that it might be the Marvell controller for my SATA III wich has my OS drive on it. Though I have no way of actually testing it, but that's what I feel.

 

[Kitten]

I keep getting this too. I thought it was my son at first messing around with the computer, but it's been doing it when he's not around.

 

[kup]

I would suspect it to be either a power issue or a heat issue. When overclocked, Folding stresses the PC far more than any of the 'stress' programs do. You could be Linpack (Intel's in-house stability testing suite) stable for a week and still crash whilst Folding.

Are you getting a BSOD or just a hard reboot?

 

[kilobravo]

Happens often when folding,and doin other normal stuff at the same time.Folding is hard,when pushing nearly 100%

 

[ShortAlieN]

only does it to me when folding. no BSOD that I have seen. Just a hard reboot.

 

[Kitten]

I would suspect it to be either a power issue or a heat issue. When overclocked, Folding stresses the PC far more than any of the 'stress' programs do. You could be Linpack (Intel's in-house stability testing suite) stable for a week and still crash whilst Folding.

Are you getting a BSOD or just a hard reboot?

I'm getting a hard reboot.

How can I resolve it if it is a power or heat issue?

 

[stevehat1]

If I know that heat is not an issue I generally bump the cpu voltage a bit for SMP. If a card issue (sometimes hard to tell if running both) A bump in voltage or a slight down clock on core or shaders is in order.

And as kup alluded to, nothing is stable until it is F@H stable. Another set of rules apply here

most of which is trial and error....

The only way to establish F@H stability is to just do what it takes to make it happen, sounds simple but sometimes it is a real challenge!!!

For those of you experiencing reboots without WU fails you may want to put a short cut to SMP in your Startup, at least it will continue to run after a reboot

 

[ShortAlieN]

well for now my rig is down... major upgrade and mod time. Well... maybe not "major" but pretty decent things to come.

 

[mgally]

There may also be a memory leak issue with the client perhaps

 

[SnW]

F@H and randoom reboots is most of the time (as mentioned already) a power issue..

i have encounterd this a few times on both my rigs...

 

[chudley]

If you are using Win 7 you can type "reliability monitor" into the search area. It details all the problems your pc has had with time/date and cause and also recommends solutions. A nice little tool which not many are aware of

 

[ShortAlieN]

ahhh, thank you. will check into that tonight. just have my 460 folding atm, working on the rig... big things to come