Computer keeps restarting :(

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Just within the last couple days, my computer has been restarting randomly. I'm not too sure if it's a heating problem or whether my psu/motherboard/processor/graphics card is just crapping out on me. here's the specs:

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+
ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA Audio Controller
2 x Corsair (I think) 512MB Sticks RAM
Antec SP-500 PSU
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Tower VA3000BWA (2 x 12CM front rear fans, 9CM side fan)

I ran SpeedFan right now and got these readings:

Temp1: 77F
Temp2: 93F
Temp3: 64F
Temp: 259F (hopefully these two
Temp: 259F don't mean anything)
HD0: 75F
Core: 91F

The Core temp got up to 99F with the same programs running now as it was when it reached that. I'm not exactly sure what the readings mean, and i'm not too sure what a safe temperature is. If it's not the temperature, i was thinking it might just be my hardware, even though i've had this computer for 1 1/2 years.
 
I do not have an answer for you, however I am getting the same problem with my system and it is annoying to say the very least.

Intel C2D E6400
EVGA 680i SLI
ATI x1800 XT 512mb
2 x 1gb OCZ Xtreme Ops edition
OCZ 700 PSU
Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000 (2 x 12cm front/rear fan, 9cm side fan)

Speedfan (at the moment):

CPU: 41C
Aux: 40C
HD0: 37C
HD1: 34C
Temp1: 40C

Yesterday the CPU was up to 58C before I took the side panel off and then I also moved my hard drives as far from each other as possible as I know one of them has been saying from time to time that it has failed.

I am out of ideas. My computer is only about 3-6 months old, built by me.

(Not trying to hijack your thread Hey, just figured rather then starting a new topic I would put it with yours.)
 
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I'd say it's probably a failing power supply. Unless the specs/amps are too low. I didn't check the actual specs of the PSU. However, restarting isn't limited to just a bad PSU. It also could be software or driver problems, RAM, failing hardware, or heat as you mentioned...
 
The above is a link to my current PSU. Suffice it to say I don't really have any idea what the numbers mean. I can put the stuff together but darned if I know how many amps or watts or whatever it is the system would need, lol.

I also have 2 internal 320gb WD SATA hard drives, and a Hauppauge Win TV PVR 500 Dual TV Tuner that I neglected to list in my specs.

For now I am working on burning all my data files and then wiping my drives clean and installing Vista to see if this helps.
 
Is there any chance the problem could be the graphics card? I noticed that it seemed to be extremely hot when I shut the system down and was moving my hard drives around.

The funny thing is my computer will from time to time shutdown while I am watching a movie, however it usually shuts down when the computer is idle.

I am still in the process however of backing up data on my main hard drive which I will then be wiping clean and installing Vista on. Will update if this somehow rectifies the problem.
 
Odd, it should have shown up.

Anyway, here is it again: http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18185&vpn=OCZ700GXSSLI&manufacture=OCZ%20Technology

At the present (posted a thread in the OS forum), I installed a new hard drive that I put Vista on and since then I have not had the random restart issues. Temperatures have been in a normal range, hitting 50C while I was playing WoW and also downloading a file in Azureus (which eats up a lot of system resources).

I pretty much have narrowed my problem down to either one of my two 320GB being damaged or a corrupt Windows XP install on one of them.
 
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