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"Carl Jenkins" wrote in message news:871Re.219994$HI.104933@edtnps84...

A friend's computer had been suddenly rebooting
after being on for a half hour or so. It would
happen to him every day. I thought his power
supply might be sagging so I took my supply and
put it in his machine and put his suspect supply
in my machine. He has been running fine every day
for about a month now but e-mailed me today that
he had another sudden reboot (the only one in
about a month). His machine had only been on for
a minute or two before this reboot occured so I
don't think heat has anything to do with it. His
old suspect supply has been running my machine
just fine. I'm going over there on the week-end
to give his machine a good cleaning, fan lubing etc.
but I can't think of what could be causing this
(very intermittent now) rebooting.
If anyone has a suggestion of something I could
try I would appreciate it.



I had a similar problem running Win2K. The problem manifested itself
most when machine was heavy load. I changed PS with no improvement. I
finally added more RAM and the problem went away. I suspect a
"feature" in Win2K where system, essentially, gave up when it ran out of
some resource.

You might give the RAM increase option if you're not already running
with a BUNCH.

An aside - it really hacks me that an OS would fail so
"ungracefully/disgracefully". I never have had that with UNIX or Linux
- sure wish I could get all features of MS apps on one of those, then
bye-bye MS.

Glen