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 the most part, except for one major flaw. The computer just restarts, without warning. It can be during anything, playing a game, browsing the net, use your imagination. It has gotten worse lately, sometimes restarting in the middle of a restart. Needless to say, this is very annoying and shouldn't be happening. Very frustrating when I'm trying to do my college coursework...
I recently upgraded the stock power supply (420W) that came with my case to a 520W. This did not help. I also tried different sticks of RAM thinking that could possibly be the problem, but that also didn't affect anything. We reformatted twice, also to no avail. Nothing in BIOS was tweaked beyond the default settings.
I was wondering if anyone had any possible idea why this may be happening, or better yet, any possible ideas to resolve this major issue. I may have to buy a another motherboard if my guess is correct and something on the motherboard is messed up.
Thanks to all who read in advance
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 the most part, except for one major flaw. The computer just restarts, without warning. It can be during anything, playing a game, browsing the net, use your imagination. It has gotten worse lately, sometimes restarting in the middle of a restart. Needless to say, this is very annoying and shouldn't be happening. Very frustrating when I'm trying to do my college coursework...
I recently upgraded the stock power supply (420W) that came with my case to a 520W. This did not help. I also tried different sticks of RAM thinking that could possibly be the problem, but that also didn't affect anything. We reformatted twice, also to no avail. Nothing in BIOS was tweaked beyond the default settings.
I was wondering if anyone had any possible idea why this may be happening, or better yet, any possible ideas to resolve this major issue. I may have to buy a another motherboard if my guess is correct and something on the motherboard is messed up.
Thanks to all who read in advance