My Computer Restarts Over & Over! Help!

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BballSteve

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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.
 
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.
 
mrbagrat said:
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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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 :P

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.
 
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
 
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.
 
AdmnPower said:
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.
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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 said:
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?
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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. :mad:
 
kobaj said:
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?
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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...
 
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/
 
holyjunk125 said:
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/
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Hey, yeah last night I ran it in last known good configuration and it still happend :( I'll try it again though later today. Thanks for the link too.
 
Ok, the last known good configuration still does not work.

I found this section off of a website that shows the problem that I likely have.
Since my "STOP" blue screen error is the code 0x00000050. The website explains everything:
Code: 
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894278&sd=RMVP

But... its saying that a spyware had penetrated my system and had planted a "malicious" .sys file in my WINDOWS directory. The website gives 3 methods in finding this corrupted file that is messing with my memory, but there is just one problem. The file is randomly named. So I have to find this "randomly" named file and rename it to "malware.old" and restart the computer. This supposedly will fix my problem.
So I enter my WINDOWS directory and find the hundreds of .sys files. Oh goody. And of course they are all named goofy "random" abbreviates that relate to its program it supports. But I did stumble upon 1 file that was named "fastfat.sys" I'm not sure if this is an actual system file, but it seemed rather suspicious to me because it is the only file that had actual full words. So I renamed it to malware.old and restarted the computer. Still, the same problem. I then went back into the directory and removed the malware.sys file and put it on the desktop just incase I'll need it. Still, the same problem. I'm getting very irritated by this. I'm about to go out and buy a new mobo and processor but I don't want to do this if it is something linked to a file on my hard drive. I'm not sure what there is left to do :(
 
Dont know if this is still a prob but i had the same prob and it was a heat problem. The CPU was getting too hot and the protection system was causing it to restart. May not be the case here though
 
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