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Re: Sudden reboots with Firefox and Flash



Hi, thanks for the reaction

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:14:22PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> I hope you also get a 1000 watts power supply to feed that equipment >:-)

I actually bought a 850Watt PSU, which should be more than enough for this setup, according to various reviews I read.
> So, as you already discarded FlashPlayer as unique source of your 
> reboots, I will take a look into:
> 
> 1/ System overheating (reboots tend to happen due to high temperatures, 
> watch the BIOS CPU temps and control the rpm of the fans).

I tried this when running Windows using Speedfan and keeping a close eyes on the graphs. Although the VGA card got a little hot, it was well within the given specs by nVidia, and the CPU did not reach high temps. I tried this whilst playing the Flash movies and while playing games.

> 2/ RAM memory modules and voltages. Check the ram dimms are certified for 
> you motherboard and also, look into the BIOS voltages are the correct 
> ones for you type of ram.
> 

The memory is not certified for this motherboard per se, but the speeds and settings are supported. I also tried running the memory at SPD 'safe' settings (lower than the advertised settings) and the actual certified settings provided by OCZ.

> 3/ Hard disks health. You can test this with "smartcl".

This might be a good point, as the 2x 500GB are old disks. I will look into this.

> 
> Being a brand-new computer I would suspect for bad hardware or assembly 
> problems :-/

I just hope it's neither.

Kind regards,

Nick Douma

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