So my buddy came to my house to upgrade my computer this past saturday. All he threw in was 2 more gigs of ram and an additional 60GB hard drive. It seemed my computer was working faster and fine that day, but after just 2 days, my computer seems to restart/reboot on its own when I try to do stuff, like sign online, view a video file, update my iPod with a few more new songs, etc. No error messges come up, the computer just restarts on its own! My computer had no previous upgrades before my buddy upgraded it. I have a 3-year old eMachine computer. Could it be that my computer is rejecting these upgrades for some reason? Why and how? It has rebooted 4 times so far today and I only do one thing at a time on my computer without having other windows open. Thanks

 

oh crap, sorry wrong forum. Someone please transfer this to computer forum or I can copy and paste this

 

Are you getting a blue-screen right before the reboot?

 

no

 

Try removing the extra memory at first, and then the extra hard drive to see if the problem goes away.

 

I just uninstalled the hard drive and seeing if that takes away the problem since that would take up more energy than the ram. Im just so surprised becuz these computers were made and ready for upgrades right?

 

it sounds like ram

 

Why is my computer rejecting the ram u think? what are possibilities?

 

my buddy thinks I should format my computer to fix this stuff and make these upgrades work, but who knows for sure. I got so much stuff on my PC and would hate to do this and then come to find out it still didnt work.

 

Sounds like bad ram to me as well. When the computer accesses the bad portion of the RAM it reboots. This is likely why it works until a point then restarts, as opposed to not working at all.

I would pull the new memory, and add pieces until you encounter the problem again and you'll know it was the most recent piece that cause the problem.