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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Tuesday, May 6, 2003 at 4:41 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Roy Ramey
(1 messages posted)
How do you disable the restart to be able to troubleshoot?
On Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 5:27 am, Mark wrote:
>As I have read in other posts, on other websites, this seems to be a fairly common
>problem. I've experienced it on only one of my four Windows XP Pro machines though.
>This particular machine is a 1900+ with a 128MB ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. Generally speaking
>it's only happened on games, however when this machine had a GeForce 3 Ti500 64MB
>card in it, it could happen at anytime.
>
>There are lots of writings about PSUs being the problem, however I don't entirely
>buy into this argument. The reason for this is that I have a machine with an 1800+
>processor on a Abit KD7 KT400 MB. It also has a SCSI HDD & CD-ReWriter on a AHA-2940U2W
>card. Now SCSI hard drives are notoriously power hungry and this being a 10K spin
>speed one is no exception to the rule. The machine also features the usual trappings,
>although Sound and Networking are on the mainboard rather than seperate cards. Yet
>despite the 250watt PSU the machine is stable as anything. I had some friends over
>a few days ago and it played Medal Of Honor non-stop for about 6 hours and not once
>did it crash, restart or do anything untoward. The PSU itself is simply the one
that
>came with the case as well, so it's nothing 'high end'.
>
>Like many people may have done now, I've disabled the automatic restart to try and
>pin down what file(s) or hardware might be causing the problem. One possibility
I
>haven't ruled out though is that it's something to do with having 1GB of RAM in
my
>machine that exhibits the problem. I will be testing this theory tomorrow though
>since I have another Abit KD7 winging it's way to me which I will be installing
in
>a machine with an 1GHz Athlon Processor, and nicking 512MB RAM from my main machine
>to put in this upgraded box.
>
>With regard to the overheating issues, well I don't buy these either since I'm running
>in a Coolermaster case with loads of fans in it and the Processor is cooled by a
>Zalman flowers cooler. Usually if a machine or processor overheats it freezes rather
>than restarts, it's what you'd expect if your processor fan fails. After being on
>and reaching temperature X it will typically lock up, bar the motherboard detecting
>over heating and shutting your machine down.
>
>Memory problems? Well possibly, but memory chips can be tested with memory testers.
>
>So could it be something else? Driver instabilities? Mismatching hardware?
>
>Just for reference at time of writing my machine was running the latest BIOS revision,
>all the latest drivers, and Windowsupdate, is fully uptodate.
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