Touch the heatsink on CPU when the machine is running, if you can feel it's
really hot, replace the CPU fan (and heatsink if needed), overheat is a
common problem to cause PC reboot.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Grasley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer keeps rebooting.


> Hi, lately, I have been having a problem with my computer.  It will reboot
> for no particular reason at all.  I'll be surfing the net or something and
> BAM!  it reboots.  Here's what I have in my machine:
> AMD K62-400, 128 MB PC100 RAM, Matsonic MS620S Motherboard, 8MB PCI S3
Virge
> video card, Sound Blaster AWE 64 sound card.  I used to have a Creative
> Blaster Banshee 16MB AGP video card, but for some reason the memory on the
> card died.  I've swapped power supplies, tried placing the video card in a
> different PCI slot, tried different memory...nothing seems to work.  Also,
> if I shut my computer off, then attempt to turn it back on, nothing but
the
> test pattern comes up on the monitor.  The machine IS on but does not give
> any indication that it has even went through POST (I don't hear the
initial
> beep).  The monitor (KDS Avitron 15" .25dpi) works fine on other machines.
> Does anyone have any ideas

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