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Ravi

My brother bought a new computer and I got his old one. It was a fun weekend of comparing hardware, assembling a new pc and installing it all anew :)

However, ecstatic though I may be, my joy is dented a bit by the fact I get random reboots. :( . What happens is I am doing something (watching a dvd for example) and the system would make that weird sound it does when your computer turns off, the graphics freeze, sound stutters a second or two, then the pc reboots. Also, this seems to be rather random. One day I am carefree for literally hours without any incidents, the other day I get it 4 times a day. The fact that this occurs on windows but NOT on linux lead me to believe this is a driver issue.

When rebooted, windows says it's recovered blah blah blah, I send an error report and I get taken to a page where it says it is caused by a driver, as I suspected.

What I was wondering is, is there any way, a program of some sorts, to find out which drivers are causing the problem exactly? This seems to be more frequent when I am multitasking, and my guess would be video or sound devices, but I'm not exactly bright in these matters.
 
I thought you meant something else so now you have an add me to my mssgr pending. :D
 
Meh. *shrug* I think that's when my computer crapped out and I never bothered to reinstall it.
 
I have em all cos I just can't get everyone onboard with the same one. plus I really like Yahoo best for the conferencing and computer calls.
 
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