Who here has Onboard video raise your hand so you can be banned lol jk hahaha onboard video gagagahahahahha

Quite unfortunately, my laptop does. But it's a few years old already. 'Nuf said.

I'm so sorry hahahahaha

just kidding Dani nuf is said lol I find this so funny OMG I am crying tears out of my eyes please stop lol stop saying aboard video

so is it a 256KB Video Card or a 512KB LMFAO

I don't understand what is so funny about my question. A LOT of manufacturers come with onboard video as standard now and adding a REAL video card is an option. I don't know what type of PC she is using so it seemed to be a reasonable question. You on the otherhand must smoke some heavy onboard weed... it wasn't really that funny. God forbid I tell a knock knock joke.... you'll drop dead reading it...

Interesting people you have here CSCGAL... interesting.

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Me either. I don't see the humor. Even if you had said you used a piece of wood as an adapter, I still wouldn't find it humorous. Any explanations?

Lots of stuff can cause random reboots. Since you've just did a fresh install of XP, that means a lot of things are suspect - not just the vid card.

Go into BIOS and disable ACPI (or whatever the Power Management is called in your BIOS version - like APM?).

I'm sure you've checked Device Manager for any problems noted for any device? Be sure to install the correct drivers for your Motherboard's chipset.

Make sure the AGP setting in BIOS matches your card - AGP2x, 4x, etc.

Boot into Safe Mode and see if the restarts happen there. Go to Start/Run, msconfig and experiment with disabling some startup apps to see if one of them is causing the problem.

Good luck,
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You seem to not have a sense of humor at all seriously loosen up

Me? How's that funny? If I paid $30 for a comedy show, and a comedian told a joke like that, I swear I'd throw a brick at him.

Let's get ourselves back on track here. This thread started as trying to figure out why oh why my computer keeps restarting, which it still is doing. In fact, I bought Wheel of Fortune 2003, and my computer restarts halfway through the first round every single time! I can't play the game!!

In any case, let me go over Donk's suggestions. I am not sure if ACPI is disabled in the BIOS, but I'll check in a lil bit. I know that I don't let WinXP go into hibernate or sleep mode, but the monitor DOES go off after an hour of being idle. (From what I recall, the video card drivers take care of this).

Yeap, AGP is set to 4x, which is what my card is.

I hate playing around with "msconfig" disabling services and proggies that load on startup, but I'll take it into consideration as a last resort.

Thank you very much!!

Quote: inscissor Me? How's that funny? If I paid $30 for a comedy show, and a comedian told a joke like that, I swear I'd throw a brick at him.


Dude it is not a joke nor was ever a joke. I find it funny yes so what? what is the big deal? I dont understand what you guys are talking about any more seems like you guys got offened big time.