At random times the computer will very briefly flash a blue screen (like, 3 seconds maximum), and then it will reboot. Because of this, I cant catch the error message. There is nothing in particular that I do that causes the blue screen, since it happens during a game, or while browinsg the internet, or even just sitting idle with nothing running at night.. I thought it might have been one of my ram sticks, but i pulled one, and while it seems to be happening ALOT less, it still happens. I am positive all of my drivers are installed correctly, and they are up to date. Im sure of this becuase I have reformated and reintsalled windows three times (only twice really, since the same blue screen and reboot happened during one of the windows installations)
My system specs are
Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Optiarc DVD-RW
SONY DVD ROM
Floppy disk drive (what? as far as i can tell i dont have one, yet its listed right here...)
Standard floppy disk controller (again, wtf?)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Realtek AC'97 Audio
2.41 GHz
1 gig of ram (only 512 at the moment because i havent put the other stick back in)
My computer is virus/spyware free, and I just defraged so that's not it either.
I should also mention that when the computer came in the mail, one of the DVD drives was unplugged. Should i remove that and see if it still happens?
I also dont think it is overheating, since I had it sit at the bios configuration screen monitoring tempurature levels and both the cpu and system never rose above 30 degrees over the course of an hour.
I cant think of anything else right now, please help me as this is really beginning to **** me off. Thanks in advance.
My system specs are
Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Optiarc DVD-RW
SONY DVD ROM
Floppy disk drive (what? as far as i can tell i dont have one, yet its listed right here...)
Standard floppy disk controller (again, wtf?)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Realtek AC'97 Audio
2.41 GHz
1 gig of ram (only 512 at the moment because i havent put the other stick back in)
My computer is virus/spyware free, and I just defraged so that's not it either.
I should also mention that when the computer came in the mail, one of the DVD drives was unplugged. Should i remove that and see if it still happens?
I also dont think it is overheating, since I had it sit at the bios configuration screen monitoring tempurature levels and both the cpu and system never rose above 30 degrees over the course of an hour.
I cant think of anything else right now, please help me as this is really beginning to **** me off. Thanks in advance.