Occasional Reboots

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chaos679

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Hey, I recently built myself a new pc:

Intel Core2 Duo E6600
Kingston 1GB DDR2 ram
BFG 7900GS OC
ASRock 775DUAL-VSTA
500W Coolmaster PSU

At first it was giving me BSODS with driver error or Bad_Pool and reboots and random lockups so i decided maybe i should reformat my new hdd. After doing that i have not had any BSODS and only one lockup but often when i run certain games such as CSS or F.E.A.R when the game is loading or sometimes during the game my pc decides to reboot. It does not seem to happen when i am not playing games. Battlefield 2 + 2142 has never rebooted on me either. From reading other peoples topics i decided to check the ram.. i ran memtest and soon as i ran it i rebooted. So for a second i thought ahh so its a ram problem.. then i ran the ram test again to see if it would reboot me again and it didnt it just ran normaly... I dont really know what the problem could be.. i would guess its either ram or the mobo. My temps are about 51c on my GPU and 40 on my processor and that when its been on all day. I hope someone could maybe help me or give me some ideas?
 
After leaving the Memtest on over night i had 32 errors and it was only on 72%
I left it on a little bit longer and had a few more of those up to 42 errors lol. I guess the ram is causing this problem but i do wonder if the mobo could also have something to do with it? and would this error cause my pc to reboot on these games and not on what i would call more ram intensive games such as battlefield
 
I think you should replace your RAM module. If you still have a warranty, you should use it. btw ASrock motherboards are not that good. I always use motherboards from asus and msi, and they work great.
 
RHochstenbach said:
I think you should replace your RAM module. If you still have a warranty, you should use it. btw ASrock motherboards are not that good. I always use motherboards from asus and msi, and they work great.
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Yea the only thing is it only errord hat scan.. i have scanned it about 10 times for about 2 hours each after that and i have not even had one error.. it seems to reboot most when loading something
 
don't know if this will help or not by my comp had this problem too, all i did to fix it was Right click on My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Start up and recovery Settings>and then under the System Failure part there is a box that says Automatically Restart, if u uncheck then it should not restart anymore, Hoped this helps!
 
For years our computer would randomly reboot itself whenever me and my dad played games, then one day it just died completely so we took the HDD out and opened it up t find that over the years one of the little arms that reads/writes data to the disks had been scratching the surface of the disk slightly and had eventually destroyed itself, we got a new HDD and now everything is happy again... shame it's my dads computer though and not my laptop!
 
Try running Memtest86 as it runs outside of Windows off a CD or Floppy that you boot off of. It can help determine if both sticks are problematic or just one if you pay attention to the area's the errors occur in.
 
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