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Random restarts in Windows 7
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can please help me. My computer is regularly randomly restarting for no obvious reason. There is no BSOD even though it's set to not automatically restart in the advanced system settings -> startup and recovery.
It will restart when I'm doing pretty much anything although it's more than guaranteed to do so if I'm watching a video while using Adobe's Encore.
It also restarts if I'm playing online poker with poker tracker open and running. I could be playing for hours or minutes. Eventually it goes.
It'll also restart sometimes if I'm just browsing the web. I think it's also restarted a few times when just sitting Idle.
It's a fairly new build, I built it on 24/12/2010. I've monitored the temperatures and voltages, the fans are working fine and aren't clogged up. The PSU is a Corsair HX850W so I really can't see that being the problem (I hope not anyway, it wasn't cheap!)
I do have Windows XP dual booting on a second disk drive which I rarely use. This was taken from an old machine and plugged straight into the new build. After updating drivers for it I never had any problems with XP when I used it until the restarts started happening in windows 7. Scan disk kept kicking in on the restart so I replaced that drive with a new one. Scan disk no longer kicks in on the restart but it still keeps restarting!
I've changed settings in the BIOS. That hasn't helped. I did a fresh install of Window 7 (it kept the old installation in a folder called windows.old for some reason) I rolled back the graphics card driver to the one on the disk that the graphics card shipped with. That didn't help.
I've tried different virus and malware scanners to rule out viruses. Today, I even took out my sound card to see if that was causing the problem. That didn't help.
I even saw some advice about upping the voltage on the RAM. I have stepped up about 3 levels. I don't think this has helped either but I am reluctant to push it any further. The computer isn't overclocked in any way.
I have scanned the memory with memtester. That didn't report any problems. I haven't had any problems running prime 95 aside from when it restarted while doing so, again with no errors. The only thing showing up in the event log is error 41. The CPU had gone up to 68oC and wasn't rising.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them
Windows 7 Professional 64bit OEM
System Built in December 2010. All new parts aside from the Maxtor Hard Disk and Sound Blaster Audigy.
I reinstalled the OS a few days ago.