Our desktop keeps locking up or randomly restarting (as if the reset button was pushed) and it's not the Sasser worm. I rebuilt the thing out of old Dell parts and a PowerLeap Socket A processor kit. My guess is the power supply is worn out, but I don't really know. A couple of times it hasn't recognized the HD or CDRW in the bios and won't boot into XP. Any ideas of how to check or what else to look for?
I'm also thinking it may be time to say forget it and just buy a newer one. I don't have any problems building from parts (might actually be ideal since I own XP, just bought a new hard drive, cdrw, PCI video card and PCI firewire card). But it's been a while and I don't know who good vendors are anymore. Experience has also shown me that sometimes it's better off just buying a prebuilt like a Dell or a Sony. I'd like to keep it at $300 for the tower, but could go $600 if I could get a decent flat panel monitor out of it. BTW I'm not looking to make an audio workstation. Any advice would be appreciated. If this is way off topic, PM me and I'll delete the thread.