Re: Troubleshooting an XP BSOD

Borgholio wrote:

> 
> No need...just spontaneously rebooted on me.  I'm changing audio drivers 
> AGAIN....

Well it seems that it's a combination of problems.  The sound card was 
certainly the source of that original BSOD.  However, my rebooting 
issues in the morning seemed to have been the result of the power 
supply.  Over a year ago, I had purchased an Allied 500w power supply. 
It worked great, until I jostled the computer and the whole thing shut 
down.  After replacing the power supply with an identical model, I 
thought I had it licked.

This morning it rebooted again.  Only this time, something got corrupted 
on the HD and I had to reformat and reinstall.  To save the data on the 
old drive, I got a new hard drive (160gb) and set about installing it. 
About 10 minutes later I fired it up and began to configure the disc. 
When I put the side panel on, it jostled the computer.  Guess what 
happened.  Yep.  Shut down.  Turning the system on and rapping the power 
supply with a screwdriver caused it to shut down / reboot.  So I went to 
Fry's and got an Antec power supply.  So far it's working well.  Given 
this new piece of info, I figure that the reason my computer was 
rebooting in the mornings, was because it got so cold, the loose 
connection in the power supply opened up and caused the reboot.  Never 
heard of that happening before in a computer...but it's the only thing 
that makes sense.