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    Ok, my problem: the last few days i've been having spontanious resets, I thought it was one of my hdd's at first, untill today i couldnt start up anymore, I removed the drive which i thought was broken and resetted my computer, When trying to install windows on another disk I kept on getting "unable to copy file to disk" errors, so I put both my hdd that was left and my DVD drive on IDE channel 0 and now it seems to be going ok, also I needed to put one of my SD-RAMS in another bank, to get the computer to start-up again. Did my motherboard partially die or what? Or am i just loosing it?
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    Could be a faulty mem socket or the dram wasn't seated properly.
    Failing to copy file to disk was the same error msg I got when I had faulty memory.
    Ask for spontanous reboot one of my machines has just done that. It's come back so it might be a one off or the motherboard is going again. The last one poped off after three days. No warning just shut down.
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    • #3
      Spontaneous resets often point to a power problem. Power to the CPU may droop enough that it resets, or signals may be completely lost. Check your PS, and motherboard, and whatnot.
      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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      • #4
        I had a machine do that once when I had accidentaly fried the CPU... whoops. Eventually died completely.
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        • #5
          Yeah as has been said above....sounds like RAM or PSU problem. At least that's what I would try first... To check if you've got too little power try disconnecting as masny drives as possible and see if it goes away..

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          • #6
            What the others said ... RAM or PSU. Another hot tip from me: Check for a blown capacitor on the board.
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