"OhioGuy" wrote in message ...
Over the last few days, my Compaq has become increasingly unstable, and
now reboots occasionally in the middle of things. It can be anything - in
the middle of AVG Antivirus 7.5 doing a virus scan, or my kids watching a
DVD.

The very first time I noticed something strange was when I inserted my
Sandisk Cruzer into the front USB port. Instead of taking a minute or so
to
transfer files, it told me that it would be something like 1200 hours. I
rebooted the system, and next time I inserted the cruzer, the machine
rebooted.

The only thing I've changed was about a week ago when I replaced an old
DVD-ROM drive with a newer one. In the past, I've also had an additional
hard drive in there, so I'm pretty sure it isn't the power supply - there
is
actually less power usage on it now than it had a month ago.


(snip)

Doesn't matter. You have classic signs of a power supply going bad.
Replace it. -Dave