My new computer is behaving very strangely since since my hardware update, reboots mostly while gaming, but also sometimes when watching a moive. Even though i'm a computer engineer, i can't seem to locate the origin of this error
Specs:
- Intel Core 2 Duo e6300 (no O/C)
- 2 GB OEM DDR2 RAM (533mhz @ 1.8volts)
- MSI Geforce 7900GTO 512 MB RAM (driver version: 91.48)
- Abit Ab9 Pro (Bios version: 1.5) (Newest Intel chipset drivers)
- Onboard Realtek 882D HD audio (driver version: 1.47)
- Onboard LAN (1x for my internet connection, 1x for my local network connection with my girlfriend, newest driver from Realtek)
- Maxtor SATA 250GB (filedump)
- Maxtor ATA 80 GB (Windows, boot-device)
- A DVD-player
- A Floppy station
- Logitech cordless keyboard EX110 (the cordless mouse broke down)
- A PS2 optical mouse
- 425W PSU
OS:
- Windows XP SP2
Temps:
- CPU idle: 41 C, load: 48 C
- Case idel 33 C, load 36 C
Symptoms:
- Sudden reboot almost instantly when the game starts: Prey, Quake 4 and Doom III
- Complete random reboot(either none at all through a day, or several per hour): KotOR, KotOR II, NWN2, Bloodlines, Deus Ex + watching movies
What i've tried:
- Disabling audio completely, changing audio-drivers, updating bios for the motherboard, changing Lan-drivers, changing videocard-drivers, changing Intel chipset drivers and re-installing windows, twice.
Other wierd stuff:
- The problem seems to be at a very low level since windows doesn't manage to write anything down to its regular dump-file or registring anything at the event-viewer. Also, while rebooting after a forced crash, my bios says that both of my LAN Mac addresses are: "00-00-00-00-00-00" and it updates my DMI-pool and windows fails to start. This disappears after a manual reboot.
What i know:
- Since windows fail to log (or any game for that matter) any errors, it has to be some low-level software/hardware failure.
- It can be my LAN farking up.
- Onboard Audio should be out of the question, same symptoms even if i disable the darn thing in the BIOS.
- My PSU is dying.
- My whole motherboard is giving (I hope not!)
Anyone have a clue on what this might be?