This is not so much a "whats wrong with my PC?" thread as it is just about how weird this problem is.
On a Windows PC, using a function in an application is sooo far abstracted from the hardware that its kind of amazing that you can do a specific thing and make the comp reboot.
My PC is otherwise very stable - I can play games like CoD4 for hours and hours and never crash. I monitor the temps - everything stays in normal range (under 60C).
Yet - if my wife or I use Photo Shop (an old version - very old like version 6?) to rotate a pic, the calculations it runs have at least a 50/50 chance of doing a hard reset.
This is what I have:
Intel Pentium D940 (3.2Ghz dual core - after P4, before core-duo)
Gigabyte motherboard (Intel P35 chipset? or is it G35?)
4GB Ram
ATI X1950 Pro 512
Audigy 2
PCI PATA Controller
PATA DVDRW
PATA Hitachi 180GB
PATA Seagate 160GB
SATA Seagate 160GB
Corsair 450W PS (new)
The Corsair 450W is fairly new - I had an Ultra 400 for about a year prior but over the last 2 months, the PC started doing hard resets frequently - like 3-6 times per day sometimes. I figured the PS was bad so I bought the Corsair - I didnt need overkill and they seem to get good reviews and be of high quality.
I thought the reboot problem had disappeared entirely - my son plays games on it a lot without any problem and so do I, but my wife was telling me it did it a lot in Photoshop (which just seemed hard to believe that it was that predictable).
The only thing I can guess is that the CPU might be defective and certain routines in PS call upon a part of the chip that is bad, or the processing is so intense that the power demands exceed the PS and cause a reboot. I am leaning towards the defective CPU because I would think that hours of gaming would tax the cooling and power deliver much more than a 5 second photo process.
On a Windows PC, using a function in an application is sooo far abstracted from the hardware that its kind of amazing that you can do a specific thing and make the comp reboot.
My PC is otherwise very stable - I can play games like CoD4 for hours and hours and never crash. I monitor the temps - everything stays in normal range (under 60C).
Yet - if my wife or I use Photo Shop (an old version - very old like version 6?) to rotate a pic, the calculations it runs have at least a 50/50 chance of doing a hard reset.
This is what I have:
Intel Pentium D940 (3.2Ghz dual core - after P4, before core-duo)
Gigabyte motherboard (Intel P35 chipset? or is it G35?)
4GB Ram
ATI X1950 Pro 512
Audigy 2
PCI PATA Controller
PATA DVDRW
PATA Hitachi 180GB
PATA Seagate 160GB
SATA Seagate 160GB
Corsair 450W PS (new)
The Corsair 450W is fairly new - I had an Ultra 400 for about a year prior but over the last 2 months, the PC started doing hard resets frequently - like 3-6 times per day sometimes. I figured the PS was bad so I bought the Corsair - I didnt need overkill and they seem to get good reviews and be of high quality.
I thought the reboot problem had disappeared entirely - my son plays games on it a lot without any problem and so do I, but my wife was telling me it did it a lot in Photoshop (which just seemed hard to believe that it was that predictable).
The only thing I can guess is that the CPU might be defective and certain routines in PS call upon a part of the chip that is bad, or the processing is so intense that the power demands exceed the PS and cause a reboot. I am leaning towards the defective CPU because I would think that hours of gaming would tax the cooling and power deliver much more than a 5 second photo process.
