I have a 520W power supply that I just bought and installed a few days ago. Its an Aspire I think, and it has the UV protection on it. I got it off NewEgg. So, power shouldn't be the issue.
We applied the Arctic Silver just as described, with only a small amount, and then twisting the heat...
Unchecked the "reboot on error" box, still happened. Oh well, can't say I didn't try. I also ran Dr. Watson, no errors. There is also no mention of system restarts in the events log.
I just downloaded a diagnostic tool for my hard drive off of Samsung's web site, and am about to go run it...
How I check to see if it is on Reboot on error? What would I look for in logs? I'll download and run Dr. Watson right now to look for errors.
I have ran MemTest86 and everything was fine with two different sets of memory. What kind of HDD tests can I run?
Not a heat issue...
I have an Aspire case with 6 fans inside, with a Zalman heatsink on the processor. I originally thought heat was the issue, so I invested in those. I also have Arctic Silver 5 on as the thermal paste on the processor. Any other possible cooling suggestions? The case is...
No, I don't have another Athlon 64 or another socket 754 motherboard lying around :) I'm a poor college student. Someone on another forum suggested raising the memory voltage in BIOS to 2.7-2.8
Would that help/hurt?
Hi all, first time poster, hopefully someone can help me out here. We built this computer with the AOpen AK86-L mobo and put the following into it:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 1MB L2
Radeon 9800 Pro
1GB PC3200 PMI RAM
160GB Samsung SATA HD
1 CD-RW drive
1 DVD-RW drive
Everything works fine for...