Im not exactly sure why but in he last 2 hours my comp has restarted twice on its own, for no apparent reason it just restarted once it was chatting to my friend another while playin D2, i hope this is not a sign of bad things to come... has anyone had these problems? if so what was it and what did you do to fix it?

Thanks

Darkside

You need to disable autoreboot, so you can see a BSOD, so we can get the error. It could be memory or power supply problems.

are you oced? and have you moved the comp around?

sounds like a PSU problem. what are the specs on the PSU and do you have any CCFL's or LED fans, some specs on your goodies inside your case might help, I had the same problem with Short Circuit, put in a 300W Antec PSU, fixed all that. If I turned the CCFL on, it woul;d restart the computer. Your system may be causing spikes in your PSU which cause it to restart.

It just did it again i think im gonna lose my mind if i gotta buy another one cause im so low on cash... anyhow my specs are as follows

Athlon T-bird 1Ghz - Not O/c'ed
GA7ZM Motherboard
384 megs of ram pc-133
20 gig Maxtor 7200rpm
60 gig Maxtor 7200rpm
80 gig Maxtor 7200rpm
Radeon 9500 PRO not O/c 'ed
Some crummy sound card
D-Link 10/100 Ethernet Card
Lg 8x4x32 Burner
Generic 300W PSU

Windows xp pro

Thats what i have and i need answers, i htink its my PSU cause my lights dim and nearly turn off when it happens more to post later

What lights are we talking about here?

any chance its a virus? some of the new worms are known to do that

I assume you are talking about cold cathodes dimming. Sounds like a psu to me. I suppose the inverter could be screwing up so you may want to try turning off the lights to see what happens. If you have mother board monitor or some similar program you may want to keep an eye on your voltages.

its not too new but the blaster worm does that. this might help -- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...ster.worm.html

Well lets add these up (Duck originally posted this list I believe)

AGP video card - 35-50W
PCI video card - 35W
AMD Athlon 900MHz-1.3GHz - 50W-65W
AMD Athlon XP 1.47MHz-1.73GHz - 60-75W
AMD Duron 1.0MHz-1.3GHz - 50W
Intel Pentium III 800MHz-1.4GHz - 40W-55W
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz-2.0GHz - 65W-85W
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 1.6GHz-2.0GHz - 60W-75W
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.2GHz-2.53GHz - 80W-90W
Intel Celeron 1.0GHz-1.1GHz - 35W
Intel Celeron 1.2GHz-1.8GHz - 45W-65W
ATX Motherboard - 40W-65W
128MB RAM - 10W
256MB RAM - 20W
24X or higher IDE CD-RW Drive - 35W
32X or higher IDE CD-ROM Drive - 25W
10x or higher IDE DVD-ROM Drive - 20W
SCSI CD-RW Drive - 17W
SCSI CD-ROM Drive - 12W
5,400RPM IDE Hard Drive - 13W
7,200RPM IDE Hard Drive - 18W
7,200RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 24W
10,000RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 30W
15,000RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 45W
Floppy Drive - 5W
Network Card - 4W
Modem - 5W
Sound Card - 5W
SCSI Controller Card - 20W
Firewire/USB 2.0 Controller Card - 40W
Case Fan - 3W
CPU Fan - 3W

so then its safe to say you are pulling around 300 watts, not including CC's, and fans. I would say get a stronger PSU or remove what you dont need.

Nvm guys it seems everyone had dimminmg on their block last night false alarm...