I built a system a few months ago and I'm having stability issues that I can't pin down and I wanted to see if anyone here could give me some idea of how to track this down.
The hardware consists of a Gigabyte Ex58-Extreme (using the latest F9h Bios), an Intel Boxed Core I7 950, an OCZ triple channel 6 GB memory kit (OCZ3X1600LV6GK), an XFX GTX 260, an OCZ 850watt PSU (OCZ850GXSSLI), a Pioneer SATA DVD burner, a Segate 7200.12 500gb and a Western Digital 1tb WD1001FALS in a Lian-Li PC-A6010 case running Windows Vista x64 Ultimate.
The problem is that at least once a week (sometimes more frequently) the system reboots for no reason, most of the time when it's idle although once in a while I'll actually be working on it. The only thing that's noted in the system log is that "The previous shutdown was unexpected".
I've had to deal with this type of thing in Windows XP and I have gone to the "Startup and Recovery" system settings screen and unchecked "Automatically restart" and there does not appear to be a blue screen with any type of stop error message when this happens.
So how do you track down problems of this nature, idea's anyone?
Thanks,
- Norm
The hardware consists of a Gigabyte Ex58-Extreme (using the latest F9h Bios), an Intel Boxed Core I7 950, an OCZ triple channel 6 GB memory kit (OCZ3X1600LV6GK), an XFX GTX 260, an OCZ 850watt PSU (OCZ850GXSSLI), a Pioneer SATA DVD burner, a Segate 7200.12 500gb and a Western Digital 1tb WD1001FALS in a Lian-Li PC-A6010 case running Windows Vista x64 Ultimate.
The problem is that at least once a week (sometimes more frequently) the system reboots for no reason, most of the time when it's idle although once in a while I'll actually be working on it. The only thing that's noted in the system log is that "The previous shutdown was unexpected".
I've had to deal with this type of thing in Windows XP and I have gone to the "Startup and Recovery" system settings screen and unchecked "Automatically restart" and there does not appear to be a blue screen with any type of stop error message when this happens.
So how do you track down problems of this nature, idea's anyone?
Thanks,
- Norm
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