Athlon mobo keeps restarting system at random

amery · Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

I need info on PSU requirements. I got a new laptop as a birthday present. Because I really like to play video games, I spent many hours during the day on my laptop. However, I have one strange problem. Now my Athlon mobo keeps restarting system at random. Friend told me that I probably should upgrade my PSU because my PSU voltage levels are too low. Is that my problem?

saxon · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 7

Your friend obviously means that you have a week PSU for your laptop and that you have to buy a bigger and "stronger" version of PSU, which can give your laptop more electric power. From your comment, you probably think that your Athlon motherboard is responsible for that. I have to disagree with both of you. By my experience, you have one of two problems. First, your PSU unit may be bad and that is why it is loosing its power from time to time. The second and more probable one reason is that you have a problem with overheating. The heating system of your laptop is not working well and whenever your laptop reach the critical temperatures, BIOS turns it of to prevent the damage of the CPU. To check that, after next restart go to the BIOS and check the temperature of your CPU and system. It should not be over 75 degrees. If I were you, I would not buy a PSU with less then 400W.

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