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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 6:02 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) Video card, Fans or cables.....check all three. Try changing out monitors first.....then card,if youve got one laying around. On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 5:44 pm, Paul wrote: >My computer suddenlys freezes and stops working with the following symptoms: >the monitor screen suddenly goes dark grey (not black as when it is turned off). > the keyboard, mouse and CTRL-ALT-DELETE functions are all non responsive. >I have to re-boot using the reset switch and upon re-booting NO error message ever >comes up. >This problem appears at any time and is not brought upon by anything specific ie >I can be downloading from the internet or playing games or accessing files or I could >have just walked away from the computer for half an hour and the problem arises. >HELP!! >(O/S XP with SP1, AMD XP2100, ASUS mboard) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 6:44 am Posted by Geoff Gordon (1 messages posted) I have the same exact problem. I could be working on the computer, doing anything, or the computer could be at rest and it will still freeze. There are no error messages and I am unable to pinpoint the error. Could it be a HDD problem? Chkdsk reports no error. Sony Vaio PCG-FXA63. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.40 GHz. 512mb RAM. 40 Gb Travelstar HD. ATI Mobility M1. I know someone with the exact same hardware, other than HD, (we bought computers together) who doesn't have the problem. Is it the HD or a motherboard issue? On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 6:02 pm, triplate wrote: >Video card, Fans or cables.....check all three. Try changing out monitors first.....then >card,if youve got one laying around. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Monday, June 30, 2003 at 3:14 pm Posted by dude (1 messages posted) I think it's a problem with the Vaio PCG-FXA series... my girlfriend and I bought the 49 and 53 several months apart and the random system freezes unfortunately seem to be happening more often now than in the past. Others online speculate that it's the Athlon processor, but I really have no idea... I'm just looking for anything to help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Tuesday, July 8, 2003 at 11:11 pm Posted by Jeff (1 messages posted) I have the same problem w/ a custom built PC w/ a 3.0ghz p4C processor on an Asus P4c800 Deluxe mobo. 1gb of Corsair 3200LL ram... GeForce 4 ti4400 video card, Audigy 2 sound card, logitech mx700 mouse, logitech elite keyboard, logitech quickcam pro 4000.... Freeze for NO reason. No errors in event viewer. Any ideas? On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 6:44 am, Geoff Gordon wrote: >I have the same exact problem. I could be working on the computer, doing anything, >or the computer could be at rest and it will still freeze. There are no error messages >and I am unable to pinpoint the error. Could it be a HDD problem? Chkdsk reports >no error. > >Sony Vaio PCG-FXA63. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.40 GHz. 512mb RAM. 40 Gb Travelstar HD. > ATI Mobility M1. > >I know someone with the exact same hardware, other than HD, (we bought computers >together) who doesn't have the problem. Is it the HD or a motherboard issue? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Friday, July 18, 2003 at 2:12 pm Posted by aaaa (1 messages posted) Check the memory. I had a problem like this and computer used to reboot. I changed almost everything (motherboard, power supply, cpu) and found that it was the faulty RAM. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Friday, July 23, 2004 at 4:19 am Posted by chris (3 messages posted) Hi Dude, Myself & a guy called Jeremy are both having random freeze situations on our Sony Vaio notebooks. Did you ever manage to resolve the problem & if so - how? Regards, Chris On Monday, June 30, 2003 at 3:14 pm, dude wrote: >I think it's a problem with the Vaio PCG-FXA series... my girlfriend and I bought >the 49 and 53 several months apart and the random system freezes unfortunately seem >to be happening more often now than in the past. Others online speculate that it's >the Athlon processor, but I really have no idea... I'm just looking for anything >to help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Friday, January 14, 2005 at 12:06 am Posted by ralph (1 messages posted) Hi. I just *FIXED* my Sony Vaio PCG-GR170K that was having a similar problem. (The same thing happened on my older Vaio F350, and Sony Charged me $276.73 to fix it.) The symptoms are: Laptop starts to shutdown without warning (Bang. Out cold... As if the power got unplugged and there was no battery...) At first, this happens only in hot weather, or once a month. Then it becomes slowly more frequent, until the thing can't even finish booting without crashing. On the GR170, it also did a funny thing were the speakers started making a faint buzzing or clicking sound, whenever the processor was busy. I scanned for viruses, and even replaced the HD and reinstalled Windows 2K without solving the problem. The fix was to replace the 4 Tantalum capacitors mounted closest to the CPU. On my GR170, these were E sized caps, rated for 270uF each. (I couldn't make out a voltage spec) I replaced them with 330uF, 10V, 125deg F rated caps in D size packages from DigiKey. See P/N 478-1736-1-ND at www.digikey.com The D package is the same footprint as the E, but has slightly lower height. In addition to the 4 caps, you'll need decent soldering skills, some heat sink compound and a good small phillips screwdriver to pull this off: 0: Unplug the laptop and remove all batteries and peripherals. 1: Remove the speaker & power switch assembly above the keyboard. (1 screw, then slide it gently to the left) 2: Remove the keyboard. 3: Remove the 3 screws holding down the shiny CPU fan assembly (looks like nickle plated aluminum to me) It's in the upper right corner, roughly underneath the right speaker that you just removed. 4: note the orientation of the 4 caps! If you solder the repalcements in backwards, they will burn out!!! (There's usually a bar or a plus sign indicating the positive side.) 5: Unsolder the old caps and clean up the pads. 6: solder down the 4 new caps. 7: carefully reassemble everything. (add a dab of heatsink grease to the fan assy, but don't peel off the old thermal rubber pad, unless you have a new one to replace it.) 8: Say a prayer and reboot your machine. It worked for me, and the parts only cost ~$20. (You could probably find cheaper parts that will work. I just went for the most conservatively rated parts I could find, that would fit that location.) Note: I was willing to forgive Sony for the design error in the F350... but when they made the same damn mistake 3 years later, in my 2nd Sony Vaio Laptop I was pretty disappointed. My next laptop will probably be a DELL... But for now, I'm up and running again. (I expec the repalcement caps I picked to last 10 years or more, but something else will no doubt bite the dust before long....) Hope that helps. Don't flame me if you get yourself into trouble or your machine has other issues! - Ralph ------------------------------------------ On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 6:44 am, Geoff Gordon wrote: >I have the same exact problem. I could be working on the computer, doing anything, >or the computer could be at rest and it will still freeze. There are no error messages >and I am unable to pinpoint the error. Could it be a HDD problem? Chkdsk reports >no error. > >Sony Vaio PCG-FXA63. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.40 GHz. 512mb RAM. 40 Gb Travelstar HD. > ATI Mobility M1. > >I know someone with the exact same hardware, other than HD, (we bought computers >together) who doesn't have the problem. Is it the HD or a motherboard issue? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 2:27 pm Posted by Brian (1 messages posted) This happens to me to! I am runing a dell at 1.8ghz, 712 of RAM. Just started happening suddenly - did you get it resolved? On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 5:44 pm, Paul wrote: >My computer suddenlys freezes and stops working with the following symptoms: >the monitor screen suddenly goes dark grey (not black as when it is turned off). > the keyboard, mouse and CTRL-ALT-DELETE functions are all non responsive. >I have to re-boot using the reset switch and upon re-booting NO error message ever >comes up. >This problem appears at any time and is not brought upon by anything specific ie >I can be downloading from the internet or playing games or accessing files or I could >have just walked away from the computer for half an hour and the problem arises. >HELP!! >(O/S XP with SP1, AMD XP2100, ASUS mboard) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 3:28 pm Posted by Matthew D. Healy (1255 messages posted) The Power Supply would be another possibility to consider... On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 6:02 pm, triplate wrote: >Video card, Fans or cables.....check all three. Try changing out monitors first.....then >card,if youve got one laying around. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 5:01 am Posted by Steve (1 messages posted) >i have a cybermaxx something laptop made by medion (P4 3.2 ghz, 512mb ram, ATI 9100 gc, DVD writer etc) and after i formatted the hard drive it started to randomely crash, the screen just stops, it doesnt go black like most of yours seem to, it stops, i cant move anything, execpt i can open the DVD writer and put disks in which prompts the hard drive button to flash as if its going to do something then it stops. anyone have any ideas? i emailed medion but they didnt reply. i wondered if it was my screen or the HD, wot do you guys think? On Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 3:28 pm, Matthew D. Healy wrote: >The Power Supply would be another possibility >to consider... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 3:30 am Posted by UdovdM (2 messages posted) I have the same problem with a Medion (pc mt6) 3GHz, 512MB, Medion Radion9800XL, C-media ac97, HD 160GB st2160021a, dvd, dvd-rw, 7*usb, 1394, Medion flash XL cardreader, Modem V.9x, nic, wifi, Medion tv-tuner 7314 mk2/3, WinXP sp2 It freezes at any time. The screen stays on. Mouse+keyb+powerbutton not responding Dvdtrays can still be opened but nothing happens. Once I say the screen mess up the mousepointer and the colors thanged as if he used the wrong pallette. Could it be a virus or trojan? On Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 5:01 am, Steve wrote: >>i have a cybermaxx something laptop made by medion (P4 3.2 ghz, 512mb ram, ATI 9100 >gc, DVD writer etc) and after i formatted the hard drive it started to randomely >crash, the screen just stops, it doesnt go black like most of yours seem to, it stops, >i cant move anything, execpt i can open the DVD writer and put disks in which prompts >the hard drive button to flash as if its going to do something then it stops. anyone >have any ideas? i emailed medion but they didnt reply. i wondered if it was my screen >or the HD, wot do you guys think? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Friday, September 9, 2005 at 1:15 pm Posted by UdovdM (2 messages posted) The videocard-ventilator was rotating at 2 rounds/sec. and was overheating. I added a ventiator in the backpannel-slots blowing over the card and it never froze again. On Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 3:30 am, UdovdM wrote: > >It freezes at any time. The screen stays on. >Mouse+keyb+powerbutton not responding >Dvdtrays can still be opened but nothing happens. > >Once I say the screen mess up the mousepointer and the colors thanged as if he used >the wrong pallette. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 5:51 am Posted by Marcus (1 messages posted) I have the same laptop, i think i have norrowed it down to sp2. I have had this laptop in bits and re-seated the cpu, i tried another h/d and i had the same problem. I tried w2k and all was perfect, therefore it was likely not to be hardware, anway i tried with the medion xp home ed oem sp1a cd and it was perfect. I slowly installed all the drivers etc and when i installed sp2 it all went wrong therefore i uninstalled sp2 and all was ok again. I had tried all new drivers from the medion site and from hardware manufactures to overcome sp2 problems, but no luck.. I have emailed medion but don't hold much hope with them replying. Good luck On Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 5:01 am, Steve wrote: >>i have a cybermaxx something laptop made by medion (P4 3.2 ghz, 512mb ram, ATI 9100 >gc, DVD writer etc) and after i formatted the hard drive it started to randomely >crash, the screen just stops, it doesnt go black like most of yours seem to, it stops, >i cant move anything, execpt i can open the DVD writer and put disks in which prompts >the hard drive button to flash as if its going to do something then it stops. anyone >have any ideas? i emailed medion but they didnt reply. i wondered if it was my screen >or the HD, wot do you guys think? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum