Idolseye

hi Thanks for your reply. I've unplugged everything except the hard drive, graphics, ram and chip and it started up fine then rebooted again. Tried another hard drive with Windows 2000 on and exactly the same happened. Argh ps: Not overclocking no. The chip that was in the mobo before was a 2.0Ghz P4 though. Would overheating cause this issue? Motherboard monitor says the chip is only at 38 - 40 degrees but i guess it could be wrong. Could it be a dodgy CPU? When the machine actually started up you could guarantee a crash by going into device manager. Don't suppose that helps at all tho.

Hi All, First post here! Well, I managed to acquire a pc with hard drive/mobo and psu from work. It has an Asus P4B533-VM mobo in on bios version 1004. i think the last version is 1008 or 9. I bought a 2.4Ghz cpu off ebay to go into it which seems to be fine. I first started it up, and was a little way through installing windows XP when it rebooted itself. I wasn't sure if it did as I thought it might have been part of the install but it did it again and again. At the time i was using a USB mouse so I took that out and thought it'd fixed it. When XP was built it did it again and created a minidump. I put an addon video card in instead of using the onboard one (radeon 9500 pro) and the problem went away for another 20 mins but then it did it again. So far, I've changed the ram, checked the CPU temp (no higher than 45) and put a new vid card in. I don't know what PSU is in there, but I wouldn't have thought that'd be it as its actually creating a Minidump file before it crashes. Any ideas?