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Date:	Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:26:01 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Spontaneous re-boots

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In <413C9FF9.1040805@sbcglobal.net>, on 09/06/04
at 10:35 AM, Gary Wong said:

>Ran Memtest; the default tests showed no errors. Should I run ALL
>tests, or just the default tests?

What do you think?

>How would I know (dumb question) if it's the power supply?

Without test equipment, the only available test option is to replace it.

>Sometimes it does the re-boot after loading SciTech SNAP (the IBM
>version); could it be the video card? (an Elsa AGP that Jerry gave me
>about a year ago)

It could be. It also could be RAM/MB/CPU. When the video driver kicks in
there's a burst of IO activity. This will stress whatever is weak.

HTH,

Steven

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