Sounds like your power supply Joe, but be sure the power supply fan or fans are operational.







On Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 10:32 pm, Joe L. wrote:
>I have a question about Top 
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

>
>I have a Compaq 5700N windows 98SE, 192 MB Ram 533Mhz Celeron that spontaneously 
>reboots or freezes. This is a recent occurence that seems to happen during warm 
weather. 
> Suspecting overheating, I replaced the heat sink/fan, but the problem still occurs. 
> Rotated the RAM, problem still occured. I don't think it's a Windows problem because 
>the system also froze when running Drive Image in DOS mode and the system will freeze 
>or reboots when just sitting there for a while with minimal applications running 
>in the background.  My only guess now is the Power supply.  If anyone else has any 
>suggestions, they would be appreciated.  I had another Compaq with a 300Mhz AMD 
processor 
>that would freeze up in warm weather upon boot up, but would run fine the rest of 
>the year.  Has anyone else had problems with Compaqs and warm weather?
>
>

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