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My computer rebooted itself randomly in the middle of a game (Enemy Territory) last week and although it was odd, I tried not to pay too much attention to it. I believe it was after I upgraded my system but I'm not 100% sure. I took this system:
Athlon 2800+ Barton Core
Biostar M7NCD Pro motherboard
Pheonix-AWARDBIOS
2X Kingston 256MB DDR (PC3200)
Radeon 9600 256MB
And put an Arctic Cooling heatsink and fan and some Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste on. I also put another half gig of Kingston PC3200 in. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the problem, so I thought I'd tell about it. Anywho, tonight while playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein, my computer again, randomly rebooted. I don't believe it's overheating because my temp monitor said it was only at 49 C. But tonight, things got worse, while trying to play Enemy Territory tonight I got 5 random restarts and 2 freezes. So I tried to do a system restore to a point last week, and after windows reloaded it said the restore had an error and needed to close, then it said windows explorer had an error and needed to close, pretty much leaving windows useless. I then had to manually reboot. It rebooted and everything was fine, but I got another reboot while taking Enemy Territoy for a test run. So I sat staring at my desktop for a while pondering when all of a sudden my windows theme changed from 'XP' to 'classic' followed immediately by my task bar/start menu and desktop icons disappearing (like what happened when window's explorer closed) followed immediately by a reboot. However, when windows reloaded, it didn't even start to play the windows load up music before it did another random reboot. That happened two more times before I just turned off the computer and let it sit for 15 minutes. Here I am now with no problems thus far (I haven't taken my games for a test run and am affraid to).
Does anyone have any idea/help/info for me? This really makes me want to pull my hair out. I've got a couple of guesses like maybe my processor is dying? Or I have a virus? But I really don't know. Please help me if you can.
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