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In my opinion, random reboots are most often cause by poor grounding of
your electric system.  If you can take the machine to a friends house
and try it there.  I went for three months trying to chase down a
similiar problem and it was a slightly loose neutral connection in the
incoming meter box.

John Farrow

Michi Imamura wrote:
>
> Hi gang,
>
 Diamond 3DII 3D Accellerator, Creative Labs PCI 132 Sound card, and I
am
> running Windows'95.  Ever since I started it up the darn thing would reboot
> at random.  Sometimes it was while I was on the modem, sometimes it was
> during a program.  And sometimes it would boot up when sitting idle for a
> while.  The computer gives no error message.  I checked to see if there were
> any hardware conflicts and there were none.  There can't be too many
> possibilities.  I think it is a short on the MOBO but I am really not sure.
> I checked and it seems to be well grounded and installed.  But I am not an
>

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