Computer re-boots when loading songs - bad power supply

niceguy · #1 November 27th, 2005, 07:40 AM

I have been having trouble loading songs from disc and hard drive lately. I loaded on about 10000 songs with no prob. But in the last week, when loading songs from hard drive, or other peoples disc, randomly the computer will re boot itself. Not every song. It only happens sometimes. It seem to be a random event. A person brought there own disk last night, and it crashed during show. Anyone Had this prob, or have any ideas?

Thx,

Beavis · #2 November 27th, 2005, 09:13 AM

do you have a laptop or desktop ?

if it is a desktop, it might be the cooling fan for the CPU.

niceguy · #3 November 28th, 2005, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beavis

do you have a laptop or desktop ?

if it is a desktop, it might be the cooling fan for the CPU.

I am using a desktop. How would a cpu fan cause the prob? What can I do to fix it? I was wondering since it only happens when loading files, if maybe it could be the hard drive?

3ghz pentium
300 gig hd

lmcmains · #4 November 28th, 2005, 10:46 AM

Sometimes using a loptop it will overheat and cause proplems. A friend of mine bought a cooling unit to set his laptop on. I think thats why Beavis was asking you that.

mindonstrike · #5 November 28th, 2005, 12:08 PM

I struggled with a similiar problem for about 6 months about a yaer and a half ago. Eventually discovered it was a bad power supply.
It was only about 6 months old when it started acting up.

Sam

DJYale · #6 November 28th, 2005, 01:10 PM

I would second the power supply notion.

Just went through this on my mother's computer. Started out doing it after it had been on for about 2 hours, then slowly got more and more frequent.

gotrich · #7 December 23rd, 2005, 06:32 AM

ok this helps me too as of tonight anyway mine started doing it. I was looking for the check pc website someone mentioned once and saw this..thanks guys

Wayne White · #8 December 24th, 2005, 11:56 AM

Bad RAM can cause a computer to restart too. I've had this with a laptop. Replaced the RAM & fixed the problem...Wayne

gotrich · #9 December 27th, 2005, 08:59 AM

I found out I had a Hard Drive cable go bad. After I restarted it it said it could not read boot disk error..but i looked durring start up and saw that it said none on both hard drive spots. took a good cable from another pc and boom fired right up. but old cable back...none again..

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