Greetings, Was hoping to get some insight on why my new PC I just built automatically restarts from time to time. First, my specs: -Core2 6600 @ 2.4 -2 GB Crucial -Windows XP Pro SP2 -MSI 975x platinum board -Turbolink 500W PS -GForce 7950 GT 512mb -Raptor 10K rpm HDD ...Um, I think that's all the relevant info, let me know if I'm leaving anything out. Anyways, it runs beautifully 95% of the time. But occasionally, at ostensibly random times, it will just restart. Sometimes, it's in the middle of playing a game. Sometimes, it's at night when I'm asleep, and there are no tasks running at all. Sometimes, it's when I'm reading e-mail. It restarts, then I get the simple Windows error message, "The system has recovered from a serious error." And this happens maybe 2-3 per week, since I built the PC a month ago. I doubt this will help, but if anyone can interpret the error signature... its "BCCode : 100000d1 BCP1 : 1000A8DC BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000000 BCP4 : BA5BFA4F OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1" Also, I have Speedfan, which is supposedly a temp monitor, but I sort of doubt its accuracy. It has my system temp average at about 40-42C, which, right or not, gives me a good idea of the relative temp. Okay, thanks a lot for the help in advance. Let me know if anyone needs any more info. -Zac
Hello Zac, Heat related issues cause shutdowns rather than restarts, so don't worry about an overheating issue. Restarts without warning can be caused by bad memory. Insufficient power causes crashes vastly more often than restarts so we shouldn't worry about power for now. We could also be looking at a motherboard problem. I've attached a memory tester you can use from within windows. It has worked for me in the past when scanning my old PNY ram for errors. Memory is the most likely culprit at this point so run the program for a couple of hours or so and the moment you come up with any errors you'll know it's the RAM. I don't expect there'll be many errors in yours if it restarts infrequently like you mentioned, but one error in RAM can be enough to play tricks on your PC. Let us know how that goes Mike
Thanks a lot for the input. I ran it only for about 4 hours last night, using all my available ram (not 100% of it) and didn't encounter any errors. Same with 20min, 1 hour. I am going to try it tonight for a longer period of time (hopefully I'll get more sleep tonight ). I think you may be on to something though, since it happens rather infrequently, it may be a while before I can find the error. And forgive my noobish questions, but what am I looking for in the event viewer? Do you mean give you the info under system > error if I have a memory error? Thanks a lot for the help.
With Event Viewer, users can monitor events recorded in the Application, Security, and System logs; Go through each thing.. double click the latest errors on all these areas and paste them here...
Okay, here's the latest error in application: Faulting application loader.exe, version 1.0.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000030. For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search. ****and in the bottom box**** 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6c 6f 61 ure loa 0018: 64 65 72 2e 65 78 65 20 der.exe 0020: 31 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 1.0.0.0 0028: 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f in unkno 0030: 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 wn 0.0.0 0038: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of 0040: 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 fset 000 0048: 30 30 30 33 30 0d 0a 00030.. ****There is nothing shown in the security window, so this is the latest error in the system window**** The Computer Browser service terminated with the following error: This operation returned because the timeout period expired. For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search. ****& another**** Error code 100000d1, parameter1 1000a8dc, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 ba5bfa4f. For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search. 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code 0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d 0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param 0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 31 30 eters 10 0030: 30 30 61 38 64 63 2c 20 00a8dc, 0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002 0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000 0048: 30 30 2c 20 62 61 35 62 00, ba5b 0050: 66 61 34 66 fa4f Thanks...
When/If you figure out what the problem was here, messege me if you can, I'm having similar issues, but the closest hardware we have is my MSI K9N Platinum MoBo. Thanks, Mofrait
This sounds to me as though your powersupply isnt stable. I havent heard of turbolink before and cant comment, however me not hearing of the company isnt really a good sign as i tend to keep onto of who is good etc. If your powersupply isnt stable then it will usually cause the system to reset. Is there any particular time this happens such as using a CD drive or whilst gaming, anything that may require a bit more power than usual. Also the amount of good components youve got, can become very power hungry, i suggest buying something such as Hiper, Antec, Enermax as these are very good, stable powersupplys and will provide your pc with all the juice they need... 500watts and above will be needed to run your pc's configuration
Actually other things also required like event ID, source etc etc....like pic below If you see there is a link for the Event Viewer under my signature....Which makes the work easier...
about the power supply problem, I have a crap "Rated" 500 watts power supply, from a cheap company named sumvision, when i used to have 4 optical drives connected, and 2 hard drives, and my reasonably powerful system, it used to restart or crash for absolutely no reason, and when i only had 2 drives running along with one hard drive, it was fine, not a problem ever since. I see you have an nvidia geforce... if you force anti aliasing or other options "not including Vsync or single display perfomance mode" I found that it makes games that use the HL1 engine, such as counter strike make it crash, and ever since i`d left the settings alone, apart from forcing vsync off and putting the monitor setting to single display perfomance mode, I have not had a crash since.
