Is This Normal? My Pc Is Messing Up

[sTaGe FryTe]

i have a AMD 3000 AND i built it from barebone i have 512 ram

i had it since november and recently the
pc just restarts every 20 minutes

sometimes i turn it on and 10 minutes later it restarts or shutsdown

[taar44]

Run Adaware and Spybot. Make sure your antivirus defintions are up to date.

[sTaGe FryTe]

safe mode or user windows?

[taar44]

Normal mode.

[sTaGe FryTe]

i did that bro and it still happens every 30-45 minutes

i picked up norton anti virus from best buy few hr's ago and i downloaded the free windows spyware and adware.

=(

[fireman_x]

Start with the anti virus, then try Spybot and Ad-Aware all in safe mode. If that is not the solution, assuming that you are not overclocking you might have a bad psu.

[sTaGe FryTe]

whats a psu?

an dill try that stuff in safe mode

[fireman_x]

The PSU is your power supply unit, it regulates the power to you motherboard, hard drive(s), etc.

One main problem you may face with an ailing Power Supply is that it may re-boot the computer without any warning. All information is lost and it seems as though this happens at the worst possible time. Booting errors when the computer first start's up is another indicator of this component going on the blink.

http://www.ultimatepcrepair.com/news/18.html

[sTaGe FryTe]

thanks ill read that and also i been on for 5 hours and it hasnt restarted yet.

[sTaGe FryTe]

dam its happening again every 15 minutes


it happens when im loading ACID or unzipping a folder aswell you think its the RAM? burnt out