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Oops, I forgot to say. It's the raspberry, white chocolate chip pancakes at IHOP. Extra butter, touch of syrup................. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................

Ya know, that's not a bad idea. That would make some sense. You all mentioned the PSU, I never thought about it that way. I know the last two times it randomly rebooted, I was in the process of installing a driver, when the CPU would be picking up steam. I might see who I can find handy tomorrow that owns a PC I can swap some parts with to test before I go shopping. I do tend to go way overboard on the PSU so that even with my system maxed out it doesn't put a serious strain on the PSU. But, that doesn't mean anything, it can die whenever it wants.

I have. And regardless of his inspirational story, he's an excellent veteran leader, great on faceoffs, you know what you're going to get out of him every single night, and he'll never cry about how he's utilized. A very unselfish and dependable player. This league needs more guys like him.

I try to avoid Best Buy at all costs, Geek Squad is usually good for a few laughs. Didn't even dawn on me to try Linux, Matt saved me a ton of time. Working on comps is like working on cars, get a few good heads together and it makes things so much easier.

I put the video card back in after I figured everything was stable, sure enough the lines came back and the system rebooted itself no more than a minute into being on the desktop. Went back to on-board graphics and everything is fine. The weird thing about it is, whenever the video card was forcing the system to reboot, it didn't recognize my primary drive as being a boot drive. That's why it was telling me to insert a bootable drive. So I had to clear CMOS to get back to the desktop using on-board graphics. But, it looks like I'm shopping for a video card.

Here's what I just did. I'm wasn't convinced that the video card would be the issue because in theory, it shouldn't have any effect on the way the computer runs. Of course, when it comes to computers, nothing is impossible. I could be wrong and it might be more possible than I think. Either way, I forgot about on-board graphics so I bypassed the video card and ran straight from the motherboard. That worked, and Linux loaded just fine. So I tried a different PCIE bus to see if I didn't just have a bad bus, and it did the same thing as earlier. So far I'm cautiously optimistic and I'm in the process of installing Windows to see if everything runs smoothly with on-board graphics. If I can get to the desktop and to download anything without the computer randomly re-booting, then I'll be convinced the video card is shot. Still not 100% sure this is the solution, but we'll see. In theory, if the video card is hosed up, I should be able to put it back in and everything will be hosed up again. I really have no idea how a bad video card would wreak so much havok on the rest of the computer. But I'd rather replace the video card now instead of the MB/CPU. I've got no problem upgrading to a new MB/CPU but I'd rather do it later in the year. Fingers crossed.

Exactly! Now you're getting it. And I don't have to assume you're racist for being critical of a black man.

He has every right to like a post.

Well, you better get on it!

That's only possible if you're following him in the first place.

I am on Instagram, and I didn't see it. Then again, I didn't look real hard.

I didn't do the memtest, but I did try and boot Centos using one RAM board at a time and this is all that happened. It went through the loading phase only to finish off with this. When booting, this is what the red lines look like. They didn't go away by disconnecting the SSD. A bad video card isn't going to prevent the computer from booting properly.

Just can't help yourself, can you?

I never did see that. Any good?

I'm downloading Linux at the moment. Damn, is the Centos full version that much different from the minimal version? 7.2GB vs. 600MB.

I thought about that, but that shouldn't have anything to do with random reboots. I'll give that a shot. That would at least take the SSD out of the equation. Or maybe even be the answer.

But they do their utmost to try and corner the market. :angel:

I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to computers. I build them and I'm usually the one everybody turns to when they need help. But this one has me stumped. My own personal computer, I turned it on yesterday and it went into a continuous boot loop. By continuous, I mean three times. After three times it gave me several options to boot different ways. I went with safe mode. One thing that threw my off was, as soon as I turned the computer on I was back to standard resolution and the display was filled hundreds of horizontal red dashes (what you'd generally see with a corrupt driver, or bad video card). I decided I wasn't going to waste my time troubleshooting and went right for loading a previous image. Well, that didn't work and I could no longer boot into safe mode. For some reason, at that point, my boot order was changed. #1 was Windows boot manager, #2 and #3 were disabled. I re-enabled the primary drive to see if I could get back into safe mode and it says "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key." At that point I just decided to reload Windows. It went through the process fine, long enough to load it and get to the desktop. But, it didn't stay on long enough for me to even download a video driver because it just randomly rebooted. Then it went through the same process as before. A continuous boot loop, then the boot order changed, then it told me the same "Reboot and select..........................." If it was a single issue I would have suspected the video card. But the fact that everything else went awry says otherwise. I suspected maybe a PCU, but that wouldn't cause the boot order to change. Since it's multiple issues I thought it might be the motherboard, because that is the common denominator. I tried flashing a more current BIOS, that didn't change anything. I tried unplugging all my other drives, that didn't work. I tried different SATA connections, that didn't work. One thing that just dawned on me while typing all this, it could be the SSD. Because if the SSD is hosed up, the motherboard might not recognize it causing the "Reboot and select................" message. It would also hose up the display in that the video card can't read the SSD for the proper driver. On the other hand, if the video card can't read the SSD, it should just display in standard low resolution. But, it shouldn't have the little red lines across the screen. I'm stumped. Does anybody have any ideas? I can't even keep it running long enough to test the hardware. This is a custom built system. 2700K Asrock Formula OC Mushkin RAM Crucial M4 SSD Windows 8.1

She's got more say than just about everybody else offering their opinion.

Ouch. https://twitter.com/Heidirn1/status/769680524994449408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Colin, Colin, Colin................... http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/30/colin-kaepernick-also-sat-for-national-a He'll be on his way to Minnie soon.

They probably just realized Shaun Hill is their backup.

Oh damn, I heard he was injured, didn't know it was ambulance level injury.