Why are you getting hostile? All we simply asked (at least I did) was what was so funny about it? Maybe it reminded you of something funny... maybe it didn't. Who knows. I was just asking politely. You're the one telling people we don't have a sense of humor. Relax man, no one is threatning you.

Dude these are just words I am reading them wrong as you are lol dude seriously these messages sounds like were fighting we are not I am sorry for the bad wording no harm done

Hi gal,
Yes, conflicts between the BIOS power management and Window's power management is a common cause of random restarts. So give a try to disabling PM in the BIOS. Also, go to Control Panel/Power Options and set everything to "never", just until you find out what's causing your prob.

The MSconfig thing is just something to try. Conflicts in programs don't usually cause restarts, but I guess it's possible. That's why I suggested Safe Mode. XP only loads the basic drivers and apps when in Safe Mode, so if you "don't" get the reboots in SM, then you might suspect that it is being caused by a program that is running in the background in normal mode.

Of course, then again, the whole thing "could" be being caused by the vid card. I've heard of such things. I guess you've scoured the manufacturer's FAQ's and support site for similar problems?

Good luck,
Donk

You ever see Geforce's web site I cant spell Nvida

FAQ's lol they suck man

let me show you.

http://www.geforce.com/view.asp?PAGE=support_faqs

geday all , I have had the same problem Im not happy about it but this may fix your problem for a while try disabling your external cache. this has helped me but I would still like to fix the problem for good .in all honesty I think my cpu 1700xp is stuffed

As I said, I'm using an AMD Athlon XP as well, so it might be an AMD problem. In any case, the computer seems to be screwed up in other ways too ... as of yesterday I haven't even been able to get into Windows. I don't have the patience right now to deal with it (the tower is also making a grinding noise - possibly the fan, I don't know - which is scaring me when I even turn the machine on right now).

Well, as I'm pretty sure I mentioned already, I finally put together a new PC for myself (my treat to myself for getting all A's this past semester as well as for my surgery). And guess what? Same video card, same drivers, no problem! As a sidenote, this new PC (well, new CPU and motherboard technically) is a P4 as opposed to an Athlon XP. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Do you check to see if your power supply is going bad? Sometimes it's the littlest things.
jvt

Well, as I said in my previous post, I'm not having the problems anymore. I still never found out what the problem was. I am thinking that it was a problem with the AMD processor. I have an Intel now and it all works. I also swapped out power supplies - but I doubt that's the problem. I never had any other problmes with it. Who knows.

If you're chucking the old parts, I'll take 'em!

:-)

Z