My Computer Restarts Over & Over! Help!

BballSteve · 03-10-2006, 02:37 AM

Today, I used my other computer for quite a few hours. Everything worked nice and dandy when all of a sudden it simply restarted. Thinking:what in the world happend but also just wanted it to restart so I could get back to business. After I had clicked "Ok" (in my login screen) it continued to start up normally. It loaded the icons and started loading the startup programs when it instanly restarts AGAIN!. This repeats itself continuously. Of course I have to be there to hit Ok in the login screen for this to happen.
I then decreased my processor speed thinking maybe this had something to do with it. It did not. I put the speed very low and minimal settings, and still the same restarting result.
I opened my computer and dusted every sort of dust there was out and all the fans had been cleaned.
The problem still occured.
Thinking this may be a virus of some sort, I put the computer in Safe Mode as it was starting up and ran a virus scan of my whole computer. After the long scan, it detected, fixed, and deleted 1 file. Thinking this was the problem and it was going to work, it did not. The same problem.

Can someone please help me with this?!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

mrbagrat · 03-10-2006, 02:46 AM

Is there anything important on the HDD? If not, wipe it clean. I wouldn 't recommend doing this until you've tried everything else, but its up to you.

BballSteve · 03-10-2006, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrbagrat

Is there anything important on the HDD? If not, wipe it clean. I wouldn 't recommend doing this until you've tried everything else, but its up to you.

I guess that would be the last resort.

BUT... I just tried a few other things.

I set it up in Safe Mode again, and was going to go and:
-Right click on My Computer
-Advanced Tab
-Settings under Startup and Recovery
-Under System Failure, Uncheck Auto Restart
So then when the system failed, the Blue Screen would come up tracing the problem.
Thinking I could to his because I did a full system scan with Norton AntiVirus in Safe Mode, the very second I right clicked on My Computer, it restarted...

So I went in the Safe Mode menu and Disabled the automatic restart of the computer when the system failed... much easier way

Now waiting to see what the problem was, it restarted. Blue screen came up and it explained to me about improper hardware or software installation.

I'm assuming this is my memory because I have had games in the past (World of Warcraft) have Critical Errors linking to the memory.

The Blue Screen also states "Technical Information:"

***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFB0003, 0x00000000, 0x8059E7A5, 0x00000000)
"Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete."

I have 2 sticks of DDR 512mb of memory in my motherboard. One is 333 and the other is 266. Would the difference in numbers have anything to do with it?

Thanks.

Dr Studly · 03-10-2006, 03:23 AM

i wouldn't think so... they will run together... but the 333 will runs like the 266

so they should be able to run together

AdmnPower · 03-10-2006, 03:25 AM

my old motherboard has issues with different size chips of ram, it would restart at random, so compared to that this sounds somewhat similar, try taking out one 512 chip and see what happens before you do all the difficult stuff.

BballSteve · 03-10-2006, 03:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AdmnPower

my old motherboard has issues with different size chips of ram, it would restart at random, so compared to that this sounds somewhat similar, try taking out one 512 chip and see what happens before you do all the difficult stuff.

For the past months, my computer had exactly... randomly restarted. It annoyed me to death. Then it came to this. I'm going to go try taking 1 stick out and seeing what happens then. I'll post answers in a few.

Thanks.

kobaj · 03-10-2006, 03:38 AM

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Scroll Down to where it sais
0x00000050
And see if you can troublshoot it from there. But it appears to be something with servis pack 1, do you have the latest number 2?

BballSteve · 03-10-2006, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kobaj

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Scroll Down to where it sais
0x00000050
And see if you can troublshoot it from there. But it appears to be something with servis pack 1, do you have the latest number 2?

Thanks, I'll take a look at that link. Yes, I have Service Pack 2.

I also just tried taking one of my sticks of memory out and it still restarts.

BballSteve · 03-10-2006, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kobaj

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Scroll Down to where it sais
0x00000050
And see if you can troublshoot it from there. But it appears to be something with servis pack 1, do you have the latest number 2?

Ok, I went to that website, found which problem I had (or thought I had) for Service Pack 2, and downloaded an update and put it on a floppy. I then put it in the restarting computers floppy drive in Safe Mode and installed the update.
The problem still consists. What... the... hell...

holyjunk · 03-10-2006, 04:45 AM

hey man same thing happended to me a while back was gettin pissed but i think i just booted it in last know good configeration then it worked make sure u run a registery cleaner if it works to so it doesnt happen again GOOD LUCK
-a good one http://ccleaner.com/

03-10-2006, 02:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
BballSteve Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 50	My Computer Restarts Over & Over! Help! Today, I used my other computer for quite a few hours. Everything worked nice and dandy when all of a sudden it simply restarted. Thinking:what in the world happend but also just wanted it to restart so I could get back to business. After I had clicked "Ok" (in my login screen) it continued to start up normally. It loaded the icons and started loading the startup programs when it instanly restarts AGAIN!. This repeats itself continuously. Of course I have to be there to hit Ok in the login screen for this to happen. I then decreased my processor speed thinking maybe this had something to do with it. It did not. I put the speed very low and minimal settings, and still the same restarting result. I opened my computer and dusted every sort of dust there was out and all the fans had been cleaned. The problem still occured. Thinking this may be a virus of some sort, I put the computer in Safe Mode as it was starting up and ran a virus scan of my whole computer. After the long scan, it detected, fixed, and deleted 1 file. Thinking this was the problem and it was going to work, it did not. The same problem. Can someone please help me with this?! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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kobaj Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,248	http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm Scroll Down to where it sais 0x00000050 And see if you can troublshoot it from there. But it appears to be something with servis pack 1, do you have the latest number 2? __________________ My site My sigThanks Kornowski for ava and sig. Winner of photo competition: Bokeh.

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holyjunk Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Age: 17 Posts: 1,622	hey man same thing happended to me a while back was gettin pissed but i think i just booted it in last know good configeration then it worked make sure u run a registery cleaner if it works to so it doesnt happen again GOOD LUCK -a good one http://ccleaner.com/ __________________ pentium 4 1.5GHz 512mb pc133 19inch crt monitor Radeon 9200se X-Fi Extreme Music LOGITECH Z-5300E!! *family pc, hope to get mine in a year or so.

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03-10-2006, 02:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
mrbagrat banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: See above Posts: 1,237	Is there anything important on the HDD? If not, wipe it clean. I wouldn 't recommend doing this until you've tried everything else, but its up to you.

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Dr Studly banned Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hales Corners Wisconson Age: 17 Posts: 2,435	i wouldn't think so... they will run together... but the 333 will runs like the 266 so they should be able to run together

03-10-2006, 03:25 AM	#5 (permalink)
AdmnPower VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 1,224	my old motherboard has issues with different size chips of ram, it would restart at random, so compared to that this sounds somewhat similar, try taking out one 512 chip and see what happens before you do all the difficult stuff.