Help! Computer restarts all the time!

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helmie

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Hi,
My computer keeps on restarting randomly. It just restarts itself with no warning. Windows error reporting says its a driver problem, but i havent changed any drivers lately. I am thinking of formatting my HDD, should i do this? I neeed quick answers as this keeps restarting!
 
Hey helmie, first off, we need to see what that error is reporting, we need the error code it puts up. To be able to see this do this:

System Properties - Advanced - [Startup and Recovery]Settings

Remove the checkmark from "Automatically Restart" in the System Failure section.

Once that is done, sit and wait for it to do it again, and write down every word number or code you cna find on the screen, then let it restart as normal.

Just out of interest, are you running on an nVidia card, if you are i bet your running the latest driver for it arent you........ ;)
 
Ive just formatted the HDD, i needed to do it anyway! It even did it when i was installing windows grrrrrrrrrr

Yep, ive got the latest nvidia drivers, well not now since ive formatted.

Ive done the thing u said to do dragon, we just have to wait for it to do it again....
 
Ok it did it again, here the blue screen writing.

A problem has been detected and windoews has benn shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this scenn, restart your computer. If this screen apperars again, follow these steps:

Disable or Uninstall any antivirus, disk fragmeting or backup utilites. Check your HDD configuration, and check for updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for HDD corruption, and restart your computer.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FA, 0xF7218574, 0xF7218274, 0x804E6143)

Beggining Dump of physical memory

Physical memory dump complete

Contact your system administator or techincal support for further assistance.

What do i do?? Its really starting to annoy me now!

In the Error report, there is this:

Files to be sent in error report:

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\mimi12300502.dmp
C:\Documen~1\chrism~1\locals~1ztempzWER1.temp.dir00\sysdata.xml

Error Signature:

BC Code :24 BCO1: 00192FA BCP2: F7218574 BCP3: F7218274
BCP4: 804E6143 OSVer : S_1_2800 SP: 1_0 Product: 255_1

Anything in there that helps?
 
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Yet another error! This time:

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}

The windows logon process system process terminated unexpetdly with a status of 0xC0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000)

The system has been shut down.

Does anyone have any idea whats wrong?
 
Right, slow down a bit, lets deal with that first one there. The Stop 0x24 message (the first one) indicates that a problem occurred within Ntfs.sys, the driver that allows the system to read and write to NTFS file system drives. Now, obviously this puts a dodogy hard drive in the frame aswell as a bad windows install, but you just formatted so perhaps not a bad install.

If you only have the one drive (C:/) then do this.....

START - RUN - "cmd" - "chkdsk /f" It will tell you it cant lock the drive and prompt you to do it on the next reboot, accept this by presing Y and then reboot and let it complete. Thisprocess checks the file system structure, hence /f

This error can still occur even if you have your drives formatted in FAT32, not onyl NTFS, follow the instructions anyway.

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Now the second one, that c000021a error refers to a computers FQDN (not something you can change) being exactly 200 bytes long, upon logon an extra byte is added to this and this causes corruption. Aparently though, this error only occurs in an un service packed windows 2000 environment, but it obviously doesnt...... No help from me here, perhaps someone else can fill in the gaps now..... my fingers hurt....

dragon2309
 
I finnaly got i fixed, i had to change the virtual memory settings, but it has been suggested that my RAM migth be corrupt. When i first built my computer, i instaled the RAM into Slot A1 and B1. (The yellow slots on my P5ND2 SLI deluxe) After reading the manual when i was trying to install a firewire port, it said i had to put the RAM into A1 and A2 for Dual Channel. I then changed it around. But, my system has been feezing since i did that, do you think thats what a cause of it was?
 
It has a very high possibility of being RAM related aswell. Download memtest86 + and run it through and see what you get, also, the windows memory tester is a really good tool aswell, download them both.
 
I finnaly sorted it out!! I switched the memory back to the slots it was in when i first built the computer. I also really tidied up all the cables, and look very good now (Except i forgot to plug in the cathodes!)

When i first booted up, there was a memory error, but i thought *bad work* it, and formatted AGAIN, and installed XP Home. Its running perfect now.

Also, i was getting Idle tempartures at 60 Degrees when i was having all the problems!!

Its now running a better 37 Degrees, mainly due t the FAR better airflow!
 
He he, nice one man. Monitor it for a long time, play resource intensive games and really stress it. Run the memory testers aswell, just to check.
 
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