Cpu shutdown? Help NEeded.

[Gordon]

EVery month or so my cpu has a short brown-out. Which is only my cpu.

My cpu just turns off completely and turns back on.

I have a Silverstone 360W PSU (recently purchased).

Now im wondering could it be my psu or my actuall outlet.

[Gordon]

O yeah and all the crap for my computer is plugged in to one surge protector that goes to the wall.

Lazer printer. LCD Moniter. Cordless phone. My 5.1 babies. and my cpu.

and some lamp lights.

Should i swap some plugs to another wall outlet?

[Mr Nobody]

Is anything else in the house being reset?

Is anything else on the same surge protector being reset? Eg. cordless phone? (Plug something like a clock into the surge protector as a test)

Its probably safe to remove the lamps off the surge protector.

[Gordon]

only the cpu resets.

[radeonboy]

I don't know if its just me but I never put my computer on a surge protector with lots of other stuff on it.

I always give my computer a separate line. Try the same and see if your PC does the same thing.

If not, it could be because your CPU temps are too high thus the random restarts. I was working on a P4 at co-op and it randomly restarted. Im like WTH so I check the temps in the BIOS and low and behold the temps are 60 degrees idle. LOL. Not even on load. Thats scary.

[Gordon]

my load is normally at 40 something.

[akito925]

could be an amd problem..

you try dusting out the inside of the computer??

[etcbq]

Could be any one of the above. Try running only your comp. And definitely forget about having your lamps on the same outlet. Laser printers also draw quite a bit of power. If it still craps on you, open up your case and clean out all that gunk, which you should do anyways. Check the fans, because overheating is one of the primary causes of what you describe. On the other hand if the fans are OK, I would still not rule out overheating.

[Gordon]

hmmm intresting. Man im never gonna buy amd again. lol maybe get a p4 extrem edition later on.

Hmm ill check out the computer tomrrow..


The voltage monitors seem proper to me.

They are all stable at the proper voltage so i cant see if it was a power problem.

[jollyeskimo]

I'd bet that the problem would go away if you backed off your oc.

[Gordon]

man i need my oc to play games! =(

Someone give me a 3200+ chip! lol

[jollyeskimo]

Exactly what games can you play on a 3200+ that you can't play on a 2500+ ?
If anyone says CS I'll smack them.

[TTony]

does your screen frozen

[Gordon]

COUNTER-STRIKE SOURCE!! HL2 STATUS!

no the screen doesnt show up.

[lead]

hymm noticed you have an ati 9700(you do have the extra molex connected to it right,not to make ya seem stupid or anthing just covering all bases).Couldn't hurt upping the agp volts to 1.6. Back when these cards came out their was some stability issues with some boards and upping the volts a bit on the agp was a work around. Also this can happen with overheating vid cards too(check the gpu heatsink and fan).But then again it can happen with a multitude of things, bad drivers etc. Your ram works best with 2.5 3 3 8 timings. Wouldn't hurt to up the dim volts either, just to smooth out the volts incase their are dips from the psu.Check your fans(vidcard fan too) make sure their all in good running order.once I had a seized 486 fan on the north bridge that lead to some periodic reboots.
Did this happen with your old psu? Is this why you bought the new psu. Is this happening during full load or when your away?