Hi. I built this computer about two months ago, and it's been running very smoothly except for one problem; every so often, out of the blue, it'll restart. All of the lights flash (simultaneously, kinda creepy because I have some blue cold cathode lights in there), something clicks repeatedly, and it can't go through the full boot process without doing the flashing lights and clicky noises again. It's an endless cycle until I manually restart it. I think it's the floppy drive that clicks (just judging by the sound of it), but I'm not entirely sure. Most of the time, it occurs when I'm surfing the 'net (I use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox if that helps at all), or watching something in Windows Media Player. It does this about once every three weeks, after being on for a few hours.
I posted this in here because I'm not entirely sure what's causing the problem, but I am using Windows XP. My dad seems to think that it's Windows Messenger causing trouble, but I put Shoot the Messenger on my computer to disable it and it's still acting all funky-like.
I think it's either some software problem, or maybe something with the power supply.
I posted this in here because I'm not entirely sure what's causing the problem, but I am using Windows XP. My dad seems to think that it's Windows Messenger causing trouble, but I put Shoot the Messenger on my computer to disable it and it's still acting all funky-like.
I think it's either some software problem, or maybe something with the power supply.