Computer Randomly Restarting

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Computer Randomly Restarting

Lockback: Sep 3, 2006; All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

You have the board set right on the case? You could be shorting something, if you skipped screws installing the board and you have a good pushing down it could be occasionally shorting now and then.

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Lockback: Sep 3, 2006; All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

Travic posted:

No it's sitting on the offsets. Screwed in normally. Would I hear a pop or see burn marks if its shorting?

Not necessarily. If you feel like you did the right thing you're probably fine, that's more common when people skipped screws or something because they assumed it wasn't important.

I'd agree with the memtest and maybe try some things to see if there's anything that can reliably reproduce it. To go off the "maybe something is physically not setup right" try carefully moving the case while it running to see if that reproduces it.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 17:24

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