Computer randomly turns off

[Ioman]

So get this guys, we have a new test system here at Designtechnica courtesy of MSI and Crucial. After I put the system together it seemed to work good, but now its randomly shutting down.

My guess its the OEM CPU I put into it, so I ordered a retail chip to see if that helps. I have a huge ThermalTake heatsink, arctic silver paste and fan on it as well as two 80mm fans sucking air out the back, one sucking air in the front and the PSU fan.

Anyways, here is the new system specs:

MSI Neo Platinum 925X Pci-Express motherboard
Intel LGA 775 Pentium 4 3GHz
1GB of DDR2 533MHz Crucial Ballistix memory
ATI PCI-Express Radeon X800 XT 256MB video card
Antec 550Watt Smart Power PSU
MSI Dual Layer DVD Writer
Western Digital 80GB SATA hard drive

Once I figure it out, we can get 3-4 video card reviews up on the site!

[senoryoshio]

Sweet

[ECA]

So, are you still haveing problems??

[ozestretch]

:censored to my pc, have just installed new gigabyte p4 titan with 848p chipset, intel pentium4 2.8Ghzt 800 FSB, radeon ati 9800SE 128mb v/card, 120 GB SEAGATE IDE HDD, 1X 512MB ddr 400 and an atx 400w psu

I formated with xp pro sp1, installed drivers for m/board, ati card, during win update it just restarted like the reset button was pushed, during next start up it restarted and continues to, i have reformatted hdd reinstalling xp and stil it cont, have put a TNT 2 v/card to see if was error there, still happened. any ideas would be appreciated, btw, i have taken ddr out and reinstalled incase it was inserted correctly, still resetting ALL the time. ohhh and cleared cmos also, still doing it tho!

p.s. glad urs is not doing it now!

[Ioman]

Did you see my response in your other post? Its most likely your memory or CPU.

[ECA]

If ya built it on your own...
can you get into the BIOS?
CHECK BIOS config, AUTO CONFIG dont do it.

And it dont get past Bios POST.
Look for SHORT, and make sure all stand offs are correct.
POWER supply, and connections to ALL drives including FLOPPY... RED LINE on cable goes towards the POWER side. PULL plug and check all connectors as a PIN may be crushed.
Magnifying glass and check pins on RAM insert and Vid card insert.
ONLy thing that should be on system is the Vid card and ram...the RESt can wait.

[ozestretch]

yes built myself, bios is accesable, infact i can have bios up for hours and no restart, only when o/s loads up (or is loading)

[ECA]

Then load up the Video card only, remove all the rest..
Run it..
If you experience problems it either the Video ram, System ram, CPU...