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

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

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

:-)

Z

Actually I'm going to use the parts to eventually put together a new machine. It might just take me awhile b/c I'm short of a few things (e.g. a case, a hard drive, and cd-rom drive)

And give it to me, right? :D

Already tried... she said no to me too :-(

:(

Meanie!

Hi cscgal,

When you rebuilt your computer with the P4, did you use the same memory modules as you had on the Athlon?

I'm having a similar problem and fear that it might be the motherboard. If you kept the same memory, that might confirm that the problem was the board.

Thanks,

Jack Dewey

I've had restarts but they were due to a second network card...but that was on Win98se :)

I have the same problem in my 1.8 athlon might be 1.9 also but that isnt the point, i have just bought an apollo 128 geforce4 apollo is also a no nmae manufacture for the card :-/ now it will restart, shutdown, freeze during my time on the computer and most of all when i start to play counterstrike in opengl mode. i have the latest drivers for the video card and monitor, not sure what the problem is, please help us
i geuss im not buying from a no name manufacture of the geforce series again...nvidia all the way :-/ also when i installed its drivers XP said it was logo tested so im not sure if that is the problem...i do believe its my 250w power supply so people have told me...
dont worry the card isnt over heating i have tried a onboard vga fan and also my ac on with a huge fan blow right on my computer with out the cover on.
i wish i knew the problem its so frustrating.
please help us...
Thanx
gal (sorry forgot the first part of your name :-/) if you do figure out the problem please let me know... :) also can u tell me wat kind of power supply u are using for say the watts?

heh i just found the last 2 pages on this topic rofl, well im using amd athlon so i geuss im saving up for a intel p4 :-/ boo to that since i just paid for the card and its usless to me till then.
Well ill also check the other assumptions. memory, powersupply. :o