Comp keeps restarting?

Question

I recently was just browsing the web and I wanted to restart the comp because the comp was on for a while already.

When it tries to boot back up it justs keep resetting. I can hear the hard drive start and then stop and etc etc.

I switched the RAM spots and the computer works again. I don't know why but it seems as if i have to keep doing this everytime I reset or shutoff my comp.

Is there a way to fix this?

Right now there are 4 RAM spots on my comp labeled DDR1 DDR2 DDR3 DDR4

1 and 2 are blue

3 and 4 are black

I currently have 2 1GB Patriot RAM

Should I try putting the RAM in slots 1 and 2?

This only started recently.

Answer 1

To me it sounds like the hard drive has died / is in the process of dying.

If you are hearing "clicks" from the hard drive, and or a "big click" then the drive "spinning up" it's a gonner.

Try disconnecting your hard drive, put in a boot CD (Either your windows install disk, or download a "live linux" CD like the one from http://kubuntu.com and boot with it while the hard drive is disconnected.  If the computer doesn't reboot while running this, then the problem is definitely not your motherboard, CPU, or memory, leaving your hard drive as the last resort.)

Answer 2

Your cache is choc full. You need to empty the cache out.

Used to happen when i had my old desktop, but that only had 240mb of ram...ahh those were terrible days....