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Oh noes! It took me 4 tries to type this! PC won't stay on!!

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Here's the deal. About 2 weeks ago my pc started to restart itself. I don't know why, but occasionally (multiple times a day!) it just resets. No errors, just resets. I had to upgrade my Power Supply about a week ago, and I was hoping that solved it, but alas, she's still restarting. I'm running on Windows XP, 1700+ AMD XP processor, nVidia Ti-4200, 1024MB RAM.
If anyone has any input as to why my PC may be doing this, or how I could go about solving this extremely annoying dilema, I would be MOST OBLIGED! Thank you for you time, and input.
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Whens the last time you opend it up to clean it out? Is the CPU fan still working?
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sounds like a trojan i had once.
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Yea, fans still operational. I recently cleaned it out because I had to replace the power supply. It was a bit dusty :/ but nothing was blocked that I know of.
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Since you already replaced the power supply my next guess would be a bad stick of ram. Assuming you have two sticks or 512 I would pull one and see if that helps and if not put the one you pulled back in and pull the other one.
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Post by Maynard »

Tyvm for the suggestion, I'm in the process of trying that.

Also, I reformated my PC on a suggestion from a friend to fix an issue with Final Fantasy. After reformatting I updated my graphics drivers. Upon rebooting, I had an "End Process" box flash onto the screen.. The title of the program it was closing was called "you should not see me." I don't recall ever getting that message before, and my PC was reformated not 20 minutes prior.. could this be a virus of some sort?
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that sounds odd, must be a virus or some sort of spyware?

or it could be M$ spying on you ;)
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No.....its the program used by some installers to reboot the computer. Don't worry.
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Post by Maynard »

I pulled out one of my RAM sticks, and no restart since. Thank you very much for the help/suggestions, much appreciated. <3
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