Dodgy memory?

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Hi all
Have a weird problem with a new shuttle style pc i’ve made for my lil sister.

Worked fine for a while while i loaded windows etc, then now it doesn’t boot. it instead gets past the post and tries to boot off the HDD. At this point it resets itself.
First i thought corrupted disk but it does the same thing when i try to boot off the windows cd.
however from the memtest cd it boots fine. didn’t have a chance to let it complete 100% on the memtest but it seemed ok.

I had thought dodgy memory but i have 2 sticks in there and it wouldn’t boot off the wincd with either stick on its own.

Specs:
Shuttle SD32G2 barebones
pentium 2 duo 1.86
2gig sticks of match ocz value ram
some ati card X1300 i think

usual 320Gig Sata HDD and pioneer DVD writer

Any ideas? i’m hoping its not the barebones…

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  1. What PSU u have got in there???
  2. Check the Temperatures in BIOS when it restarts…
  3. Can u boot in Safe Mode??
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  1. Part of the shuttle barebones (case, mb, psu and cpu fan)
  2. 48’c can take it a lot further down if i turn up the fans
  3. nope won’t let me get that far.
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PSU info required because it might be happening just because of the BAD PSU…
For more info on PSU go…[link=http://www.hardwareforums.com/power-supply-sticky-5218/]here[/link]

Another thing u can try is resetting the BIOS.