Hi and thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I was recently given a hand me down computer and decided to frankenstein it together with some parts from my old computer. After installing everything I started getting random restarts and STOP errors so I've pulled a lot of the parts and tried everything I can think of and everything I can find in any forum that might help so I decided to post here.
Here's the parts list
New Parts:
ECS GeForce6100SM-M Mobo
Antec TP3-430 Power Supply
H7650 Case
Parts from hand me down:
Amd Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2ghz
Sorry don't know RAM manufacturer but it's 1gb total
Seagate st3200827as 200 GB SATA hard drive
Parts from old computer:
ATI X300 video card
Running Windows XP Pro SP2
After putting everything together the computer wouldn't even recognize my vid card so after awhile I opted to use the x300 since it recognized it. Everytime I would try to install the drivers I would get a zero service display error or something of the sort. Found a lot of info about nvidia chipset boards not taking well to ATI drivers so I uninstalled and ran driver cleaner pro. Everything is running off a fresh install at the moment, on a deep format of the SATA hard drive. Before when the random restarts happened there would be a listing for them in the event viewer...now no such luck. So far everythings been running stable for hours at a time then it randomly restarts again. I thought maybe the cpu was getting too hot so after the last restart I checked it in bios and it was at 40. I also tried some 3rd party vid card drivers thinking maybe the drivers were the problem but it still hangs up. I don't know what else you may need to know the bios was flashed with the most up to date all drivers are up to date otherwise that I know of, and I just have no clue whats causing this.
