weird rebooting episode

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 5:51 pm

i was reading the forum here and the computer just rebooted. what the hell? i noticed the northbridge fan stopped temporarily also. is my board dying? also i gotta push the reset button twice for it to reboot. its done this thing twice so far. once yesterday and once today.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 5:54 pm

what motherboard do you have? I had the problem with having to press restart twice when I had a netgear NIC (FA113 I believe is the model) and an EPoX 8K7A+....it was a known issue after I started looking into it. Don't know if it carries on with other epox boards or not, since I just put threw the card aside after I upgraded to an EPoX 8K5A2+(which has an onboard NIC).

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:02 pm

its a soyo dragon with a 1.4 ghz

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 12:18 am

were you overclocked at the time?

CaterpillarAssassin · Fri Mar 28, 2003 12:26 am

Yup that used to happen to my Epox 7KXA. Till it wouldnt start at all. Had to get a new mobo. One of the little square purple things cracked.

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:58 am

Originally posted by chottoED
were you overclocked at the time?

no it wasnt overclocked. it did it today too. once it gets warmed up it seems to act ok. i blew the dust out and reseated the ram. hopfully this will cure it. er i dont seem to have any square purple things on mine.

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:43 am

in the interest of completeness, the blowing the dust out and reseating the ram seems to have worked. no rebooting for 2 days so far.

CaterpillarAssassin · Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:44 am

good good. My main pc does that sometimes as well. But only with 2 sticks of ram in it. Dont know why. I have tried multiple sizes and brands but to no avail. I guess I'll just have to deal with it.