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Would you stop restarting?

Aug 17, 2004 2:10AM PDT

It goes like this:
Turn on the comp and after a while it restarts, I hear a sound from the case of the hard disk shuting down. I thought it was just in games and that the problem is in my new grafic card (5 days old, the problem started yesterday) but it happened after or in the midle of an instalation and so on! I described the sound that the hard disc makes, and based on that I thought that it is a power box???( the thing with a went i dont know the english word) problem. Maybe the new card requires more power causing the lack of power in the hard disc????
Please help me!!!!

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Re: Would you stop restarting?
Aug 17, 2004 10:45PM PDT

You didn't tell about the machine, it's parts, the power supply so I can't tell if you undersized the power supply or if you should pull the case cover to see if it helps. Some new builders are unaware that you need a heatsink on the CPU!

Tell more.

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Re: Would you stop restarting?
Aug 19, 2004 6:58AM PDT

I've tried changeing the power box, the same. I've tried changing to my old grafic card, the same! I did all that by myself! The cooler on the cpu works fine and the temperature is normal. A similar thing has happened earlier but I resolved it by changing the pover box! This one that I have now suports 400W(people tell me that it is enough) of load and it seams that works fine, but it still restarts (i mentioned that I checked it by changing the box)! Could it be a hard disk power jack problem?????

Intel pentium 4 1,7
640 MB DDR
Asus board + sound
60 GB Maxtor
Ge Force 5600XT
DVD pioneer
LG CD player
MSI CDRW
D-link ethernet
V-stream tv card

That is what's inside!
CAn you help?

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Re: Would you stop restarting?
Aug 19, 2004 8:51AM PDT