PC keeps restarting on its own

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  1. Eugene482

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    Hi, recently I burned out my old card and got a temporary replacement from a store.

    My previous was evga 8800gts, and now I am temporarily using ATI HD 4760

    I did not delete the old drivers, but I just installed catalyst center on top of it and that apparently installed a new driver or something.

    But my PC keeps on restarting, like several times already. Does anyone know the cause of this?

    CPU and GPU temperatures seem fine.

    I have 500Watt corsair and 2GB OCz.

    Oh I should also mention it happens most often in Windows Explorer. The Explorer windows in XP just freezes a bit, and the mouse hovering doesn't highlight stuff.
     
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    By the way, I just ran memtest, program, and immediately it said that some RAM pockets were innacurate...and gave like 1000x messages that I had to end the program. Immediately after, my PC rebooted again.

    So ok, my Ram timing is 4-4-4-15. It always was, but now CPU-z is showing me something different.

    Here:
    http://img263.imageshack.us/i/memorys.jpg/

    Now, because I started to suspect the memory, I went to BIOS setup, and I changed Timing control from Manual to Auto, and I assume that wouldn't change the CPU-z settings.

    I just replaced my Video card, which at first seemed to be the cause of the problem, now PC works but it restarts. What are the chances that two components failed at the same time.... and I did update the bios when my GPU broke (but that didn't help, it seemed successful, but just putting it out there, incase it can be the culprit)
     

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