Hey everyone

About 6 months ago, my father bought a custom new PC at a local store. Its far better than his last one, and thats great and all, because he called me usually about 2x every day to ask me what was wrong with the old one and why it was so slow....... Now this new one is great for him. It is not to powerfull, but all he uses it for is email, letters, and tax stuff.

The problem is that it restarts aproximatly 2-3 times a day, right in thee middle of emails, or when writting lettes, or whenever. Windows is updated, its virus and spyware free, and for the life of me, I cannot figure what is going on.

Is there any way some of you could blast out a few lists of things to check that I may have missed? Because its really annoying for him, and the fact he has me on speed dial means it's really annoying for me .

Thanks everyone.

Win XP Home SP2
RAM 512MB DDR400 PC3200
MoBo Asus A8N-VM
HD 100GB 7,200rpm 8MB S-ATA
GPU Geforce 6100 Video
AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket 939

The first 2 things I'd look at would be the RAM & PowerSupply.

Use Memtest 86 to test the Memory.

If thats ok, test the PowerSupply.

Thanks Fixedamage

I ran the Memtest 86 and everything except test 8 had 0 errors, Test 8 had over 10000 errors (Modulo 20 ones and zero's). So Im going to assume its a memory problem for now.

Tst 8
Failing address (thousands of them)
Good 0
Bad 4
Err-Bits (either 4, 20, 40, 200, 400, or 2000)
Count over 10000 after 45 mins.