StrangleHold

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=dlo...=sware_dl_3264

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PC eye

The latest version of PC Wizard 2008 on the first link is good and more accurately reading cpu and other temps here when compared to readings by SpeedFan another free program when looking at the hardware monitor in the bios. It runs easily on Vista as well as XP.

Sandra or Sandra Lite is an older diagnostic benchmarking program there. You will see that being mentioned at web site for some schools at times. SiSoftware is a good software company producing that one.

The other program SpeedFan is a smaller utility will the option to select items on a temp chart as well as readings from the board's temp sensors for cpu, board, and drive temps. http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

Unfortunately SpeedFan and the no longer free version of Everest have been known to give off false high temps. The Temp Probe II utility for Asus boards on the other hand has worked even on other brands for some found at the Asus support site. The main idea here however is to see if you are having a temp problem of some type causing the system to restart as part of the overheat protection process.

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Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller
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PC eye

I know that. But even if he was letting the monitor simply go into standby mode and was seeing it fail to revive that wouldn't explain why the system itself was seeing sudden restarts. The monitor itself has it's own ac power source completely independent from the main case.

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Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175

Is EBay going out of the Auction Business?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1