System Restarting

[chills1980]

I'm new to this problem so I'm in need of some help. I'm working on this cpu for a friend but the problem is as follows:

It is a Micron factory built cpu with a 700mhz intel celeron processor and the mother board has everything built onto it. It came with windows me as the op. He doesn't know what happened to it, but everytime I try to start it it brings up the screen and starts loading windows me then when it is just about done it restarts itself every time. So I decided to run fdisk and then reformat the hardrive and put win 98 on it just to check if the windows me he had was somehow corrupted. I got everything loaded but it will only start in safe mode and will restart it self if you try to load in norm mode. So I put windows me back on and back to restarting itself. Oh also in windows me safe mode it still restarts it self.

I hope some one has an answer for me I would really appriciate it.

[PostCode]

I recently worked on two PC's that had similar problems. One had a flacky power supply and the other had had bad RAM. Try both of those to start things out with. Try removing the RAM and replace it with a stick of some known good stuff and if possible, try another power supply with a known good one. Another possibility is the CPU itself. I've heard of CPU's going bad and causing this. Hope this helps.

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[sea69]

System reboots/turns on by itself

System reboots/turns on by itself:
This problem will occur if you have wake on lan enabled on the bios of your motherboard. You can either disabled the wake on lan feature found mostly in the Power Management section of the bios setup or you may choose to pull out the wake on lan cable that connects from your network card to the motherboard.




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[mjc]

Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem, power supply, RAM, heat...those are the most common sources of reboots...the first two are BIOS settings, the next require some swapping...and if it is still under warranty it may be best to get Micron to look at it. The last try it with the case open and a small fan blowing into it.

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