Uninitated Reboot

[marklp]

My computer reboots seemingly for no reason. I'm running Win98,Service Pack 1/AsusP2B/PII300. It reboots while attended and unattended. Also, I am unable to turn it off by the switch on the case, but that is how I turn it on. Any recommendations would be enthusiastically welcome.

Mark

[AuraEdge]

Uninitiated reboots are usually the product of 1) overheating or 2) stability problems. If you are not overclocking, you should not run into stability problems at all. Also I think the New ATX cases allow u only to turn it on (no force shut off from case) as they expect you to have a Surge protector or a powerstrip. Not sure about the latter answer tho.

[Carl Uman]

I agree with AuraEdge on the uninitiated reboots. Although it seems like there is something in the back of my head that there was another problem that I ran into once with uninitiated reboots.

On not shutting down... try holding the button in four seconds. Most (maybe all) ATX motherboards give you the option in the BIOS to have the power button do an instant-off or a four second delay.

Carl

[jonathankeeping]

Does your computer reboot at random intervals or does it seem to reboot under certain conditions (ie when playing a game or after an hours of it being turned on).

[jeffbird]

I have had experience with both your problems, on the standard ATX Asus P2B-??? boards, you can force a power shutdown by holding the power button in for 10 seconds. Usually this will work, if your bios is updated with the ASPI, I would just install the latest bios update from ASUS.

Secondly, you may have a problem with the power supply, although I tend to agree with the prognosis of a heat problem... are you overcocking? The Power supply may have a poor voltage output or an irregular current, with todays computers, this can have increasingly bad effects, as the ASPI managment looks for suck dropped voltages or changes in current as a sign for rebooting or power off or suspend modes, I would Volt meter the darn thing, and hope it fails, then you will at least have an answer.

[jeffbird]

I have had experience with both your problems, on the standard ATX Asus P2B-??? boards, you can force a power shutdown by holding the power button in for 10 seconds. Usually this will work, if your bios is updated with the ASPI, I would just install the latest bios update from ASUS.

Secondly, you may have a problem with the power supply, although I tend to agree with the prognosis of a heat problem... are you overcocking? The Power supply may have a poor voltage output or an irregular current, with todays computers, this can have increasingly bad effects, as the ASPI managment looks for suck dropped voltages or changes in current as a sign for rebooting or power off or suspend modes, I would Volt meter the darn thing, and hope it fails, then you will at least have an answer.

[jeffbird]

I have had experience with both your problems, on the standard ATX Asus P2B-??? boards, you can force a power shutdown by holding the power button in for 10 seconds. Usually this will work, if your bios is updated with the ASPI, I would just install the latest bios update from ASUS.

Secondly, you may have a problem with the power supply, although I tend to agree with the prognosis of a heat problem... are you overcocking? The Power supply may have a poor voltage output or an irregular current, with todays computers, this can have increasingly bad effects, as the ASPI managment looks for suck dropped voltages or changes in current as a sign for rebooting or power off or suspend modes, I would Volt meter the darn thing, and hope it fails, then you will at least have an answer.

[jeffbird]

I have had experience with both your problems, on the standard ATX Asus P2B-??? boards, you can force a power shutdown by holding the power button in for 10 seconds. Usually this will work, if your bios is updated with the ASPI, I would just install the latest bios update from ASUS.

Secondly, you may have a problem with the power supply, although I tend to agree with the prognosis of a heat problem... are you overcocking? The Power supply may have a poor voltage output or an irregular current, with todays computers, this can have increasingly bad effects, as the ASPI managment looks for suck dropped voltages or changes in current as a sign for rebooting or power off or suspend modes, I would Volt meter the darn thing, and hope it fails, then you will at least have an answer.

[ButtCrak]

Any chance here that a trojan may be installed on your puter???

[ButtCrak]

Any chance here that a trojan may be installed on your puter???

[ButtCrak]

Any chance here that a trojan may be installed on your puter???

[AndreBranco]

an irq conflict could cause your system to reboot (hd & other device with same irq #)
on my system voodoo3 was one problem and a bad harddrive and a slow HCF (or winmodem) modem, both modem & hd have been replaced and i changed voodoo3 bios cmos config., now my system is okay.