Acadia opened this issue on Feb 24, 2007 · 31 posts
tekmonk posted Sat, 24 February 2007 at 1:36 AM
Right click 'my computer', --> properties --> advanced --> startup and recovery --> settings.
Here make sure 'automatically restart' is unchecked.
After you have turned off the 'auto restart' it should give you a blue screen instead of a reboot. In that there should be something like "stop error " . Search for that line in google (like 'stop error 0x12345abcdef') to see whats up.
If you have turned it off, and the thing still does a reboot then this is most probably a a power problem.. If it were anything else, RAM, HDD, anything, windows XP always throws that blue screen before it crashes.
What display card do you have anyway ? If its a high end one, those have very high power requirements, a 350w PSU may not be enough. What you need to watch for is how much amps (A) the PSU has on its +12 V line. Good quality PSUs have this listed on their side covers. You want a PSU with at least 25-30 A on +12 V for it to work reliably with modern display cards. The 'wattage' figure of a PSU is pretty useless as a measure since its the actual Amps on the 12v that are important (the +12V line runs most of the components of the system, the CPU, HDD, the display, DVD drives etc)