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AVGWarhawk · 05-05-08, 03:11 PM

Last week I was reading up on S.M.A.R.T. Basically a program in XP that attempts to tell you your hard drive might be going bad. Most said it was a worthless program. The reason....for S.M.A.R.T to work you need to have additional programs installed because SMART send packets out via the internet looking for a central monitoring station. If not is present, it can cause crashing and rebooting. SMART can be disabled in the BIOS. Go ahead and disable it and see if your online crashing stops. If not, you can turn it back on and look for the cause else where. Do a quick google search and see what you find out about SMART and crashing.

Also, just make sure your CPU/GPU temps are good.
Other items to check as well. RAM is good. There are free RAM testers on the net.
PSU can handle the higher demand on online gaming.

I have spent a better part of 3 weeks with a shutting down or reboot issue. I checked everything. I found it was the micro on/off switch failing.

05-05-08, 03:11 PM	#14
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 27,343 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Last week I was reading up on S.M.A.R.T. Basically a program in XP that attempts to tell you your hard drive might be going bad. Most said it was a worthless program. The reason....for S.M.A.R.T to work you need to have additional programs installed because SMART send packets out via the internet looking for a central monitoring station. If not is present, it can cause crashing and rebooting. SMART can be disabled in the BIOS. Go ahead and disable it and see if your online crashing stops. If not, you can turn it back on and look for the cause else where. Do a quick google search and see what you find out about SMART and crashing. Also, just make sure your CPU/GPU temps are good. Other items to check as well. RAM is good. There are free RAM testers on the net. PSU can handle the higher demand on online gaming. I have spent a better part of 3 weeks with a shutting down or reboot issue. I checked everything. I found it was the micro on/off switch failing. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road Last edited by AVGWarhawk; 05-05-08 at 03:22 PM.