system restarts at startup

[Jmbryan10]

Hey guys i just built a new rig last week and everything went great. However when i added in 4 more gigs of RAM a couple days ago my system has been restarting a few seconds into startup. It only happens once and then everything is ok, but I'm not sure what's causing it. Memtest ran all night with no errors before and after i added the RAM, prime95 reports no errors on blend for 8+ hours, and my temperatures are fine. What could be causing this?

gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L
Q6600 @ 3.0 Ghz
2x G.skill 2x2gb DDR2-800
evga 8800 GTS
corsair CMPSU-650TX

 

[arson94]

I'd say take out the 2 sticks that you added and see if it still does it. If it stops, switch the 4 gigs and see what happens then. It may not be that you have bad ram, it just may be that your board has a small issue with 4x2GB sticks of ram at once. Also, I'd check and see how volts your RAM says it requires, and see if your BIOS will tell you how much it is currently supplying. You may just need to add a little voltage.

 

[IH8U]

Another could be to try popping the CMOS battery for a couple of minutes. (then make any BIOS changes, as this will re-set them).

 

[Perponcher]

Another possible solution.

I had a similar problem once, the machine rebooted randomly after putting new memory in. The solution was to pull the ram out, make sure the PC isn't powered, then click the on button for like 10 seconds then put the memory back in. Also touch the PC case before grabbing the memory.

Solved my problem, static electricity can break your system.

 

[arson94]

Perponcher's suggestion does fix some random @$$ issues. All he's doing is flushing out the electricity stored in the caps in your PSU and MOBO. For some effin reason, this actually solves problems. It's like you get some stale @$$ electrons or something all up in your PSU and mobo capacitors and when you flush those b!tches out, you're all good. I don't know why it works, but sometimes it does. Give it a try. IH8U's suggestions of clearing the CMOS isn't a bad idea either.