randal1013
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i built a customized computer a few months ago and i'm suddenly having some problems.
PC:
AMD athlon 64 3800+ (2.4GHz)
1GB of DDRAM
chaintech ATX mobo
geforce4 ti 4400 video card
i use the onboard sound card
i have a western digital hard drive @ 120GB capacity
the psu is a generic brand that came with the case. it says it has a total max of 350W output.
so on rare occassion my computer will randomly reboot, and sometimes it won't even reboot, it will just keep trying to boot up and it will beep and retry then beep and retry, and so on and so forth. i think this only happens when the computer has been on for days. i can't tell if it's overheating or the psu is just too generic or something and ultimately not powerfull enough. i recently put a new, more powerfull fan on my cpu, and everything worked fine for a good while before it started this random rebooting. i thought maybe the hard drive was overheating, so i bought a fan for it, and everything ran fine until today. i've had my computer on for a few days and it just tried to reboot by itself. i had loaded up vice city while i had a bittorrent program and music player running in the background. i don't know if maybe i didn't clean off the cpu well enough before installing the new fan, but it did fine for a couple weeks or so before the funny business started.
does anyone know what might be going on with my comp?
PC:
AMD athlon 64 3800+ (2.4GHz)
1GB of DDRAM
chaintech ATX mobo
geforce4 ti 4400 video card
i use the onboard sound card
i have a western digital hard drive @ 120GB capacity
the psu is a generic brand that came with the case. it says it has a total max of 350W output.
so on rare occassion my computer will randomly reboot, and sometimes it won't even reboot, it will just keep trying to boot up and it will beep and retry then beep and retry, and so on and so forth. i think this only happens when the computer has been on for days. i can't tell if it's overheating or the psu is just too generic or something and ultimately not powerfull enough. i recently put a new, more powerfull fan on my cpu, and everything worked fine for a good while before it started this random rebooting. i thought maybe the hard drive was overheating, so i bought a fan for it, and everything ran fine until today. i've had my computer on for a few days and it just tried to reboot by itself. i had loaded up vice city while i had a bittorrent program and music player running in the background. i don't know if maybe i didn't clean off the cpu well enough before installing the new fan, but it did fine for a couple weeks or so before the funny business started.
does anyone know what might be going on with my comp?