PC Rebooting

[cid1]

I am having a reoccurring issue with my pc rebooting for no reason. I have a PC 266 M810LR motherboard with a 1 gig AMD Anthon processor. I am currently running windows 98. (Yes I am still in the dark ages.) I built this pc about a year ago and it has started to reboot at any given time for no apparent reason. It doesn't matter if I am gaming, browsing the web, or doing nothing. It just shuts off and restarts.

I am a technician and my first guess is that it would be the power supply going bad. But since I am not using the company's dime to fix this I am hesitant to go out and buy one without exploring my options. I have heard of an auto reboot function whenever windows encounters a fatal exception. Is this fact or fiction? If so how would I double check it in 98.

I don't know I probably need to just break down spend the 20 bucks and buy a power supply but I just wanted to see if anyone knew of anything that I could try.

 

[franklin97355]

Check the processor heat sink and memory both could cause this problem.

 

[SQLScholar]

"I have heard of an auto reboot function whenever windows encounters a fatal exception. Is this fact or fiction? If so how would I double check it in 98."

Its true for windows XP.... but i have never heard of this in 98.

and also i had a similar problem in (XP and 98) and when it was RAM in 98, it didnt auto re-boot. I would be inclined (with it re-starting in 98) to aggree with you and say power supply.

HTH

Dan ----------------------------------------
There are 2 types of computer, the prototype and the obsolete!!

 

[cid1]

thanks I just wanted to see if anyone knew of anything else before I went out and purchased one.

 

[KimberTech]

An easy fast check first if you like. I have seen this happen with ram also.
If you have more than one stick, I would suggest trying them out separately to see if you resolve it this way.

Other than that, I would say power as well. Are you on a UPS? If not, it could be your OUTLET, or your power bar. I have run into this before as well.(Of course I had changed the power supply already... ) Kimber

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