[PuffDaddy]

My desktop pc keeps restarting randomly. It happens more often while i'm gaming but sometimes it happens while i'm just browsing too. I checked temperatures of HDD, GPU, CPU and they were all normal. I checked event log and it only shows error 6008, which gives no specific info of why the PC restarts.

Voltage info from the BIOS is attached.

Please help

[Megabite]

Howdy,

So does it shut off and automatically restart?

What Operating System are you using XP,Vista, Windows 7?

[PuffDaddy]

It just restarts.
And its windows 7 Home basic 32-bit.

[Megabite]

Try Disabling Automatic restart...then when it shuts down you should see a blue screen to help us

Go to link below

http://www.itechtalk.com/thread11333.html

[PuffDaddy]

Just as we are talking, it restarted while I'm on my laptop and the desktop had no load whatsoever, and then it kept restarting in a loop, even before the Intel welcome screen shows up it restarts again. I've turned it off in-case it damages my hardware :/.

And I've also read about what you mentioned above, but I've heard if it's a temperature issue and I have the auto restart option disabled than I might damage my hardware ....

Just a note: My HDD LED(Busy red light) isn't working since last week either, also my computer sometimes goes really slow and when I see the resource monitor when this happens it shows the HDD is taking too much load. The thing is I wiped everything on the HDD and reinstalled windows still no rejoice ....

Do you think it could be a HDD problem making the computer restart...

Thanks for the help so far.

[Megabite]

Yes could be the Hard drive going faulty...and disabling the auto restart will just show the Blue screen and not overheat the PC.

You can try a Hard drive test found on seagate site

[PuffDaddy]

Okay I have turned off the restart option.
I'll keep you updated.
Also don't you think 165 is a bit too high temperature for motherboard :/

[Megabite]

Yes if that is the actual temp.......check for dust build up and also that all the fans are working.