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Re: My computer is crashing after 30 min.
Need Help 03/01/01	When I use my computer, it restarts by itself suddenly after about a half hour of using it. What should I do to fix it?
Claude 03/01/01	This does not sound good. First thing that comes to mind is maybe (just maybe) your cpu fan is toasted. When the CPU overheats it could be causing the reboot. To check whether or not your cpu fan is running you could remove the side panels (or full panel depending on box design) so you can peek into your computer while it is running. Turn your computer on with the sides off. If you don't see the fan on your CPU running then you need a new one. If you are a total newbie the above may be scary. If so get a friend or local tech to help. If the fan is not running you can either buy one and install yourself, or take it to a repair shop for a new one. Not all fans are the same. So make sure you get the right type for your cpu. Sorry but the world of computer innards were not designed to be simple for us normal folks. If the cpu fan is running then the reboot is not caused by overheating. But let's check the fan first. :When I use my computer, it restarts by itself suddenly after about a half hour of using it. What should I do to fix it?
tony eliasantonio@hotmail.com 10/28/01	Hey, I have the same problem. My computer suddenly restarts about 30 minutes after i turn it on. Did you find a solution to your problem? let me know if you did. Thanks Tony
Josh dman53@charter.net 01/06/02	I have the same problem with a system i just built only mine will run fine under normal operation when i put a load on it like running 3D Games (AVP2 Quake3 and Deadly Dozen) it seems to freeze up for a sec then restarts its self... I have built about 80+ comps and never had this problem before. System Specs Amd Athalon TB 1.0ghz 256mb Crucial DDR PC2100 ram Geforce 2 MX 64mb Win 98SE MoBo ECS M810lmr DDR Board. the CPU Fan is a Globalwin and have 1 extra Intake Fan System Temp is 29degrees C cpu temp is 38degrees C thats the temps after it restarts itself. that is pretty damn good for heat on that cpu since the normal heat range is around 50-52 C Used Artic Silver Heat Grease I have been trying to figurer this out but nothing i do seems to make any diff i have al the updated drivers for the Chipset and Vid and Sound. Its runs smooth as hell for about 10 to 30 mins into the games then it restarts itself. Any help would be nice Thanks Josh
joe towjoe42@wwdb.org 02/04/02	My friends computer restarts by itself after a while. I did check the cpu fan and it was running. earlier the powersupply fan was malfunctioning, and running slow and making noise. I bought a new atx case, and swapped the guts into it. Everything seemed to be ok, till it just restarted by itself. My friend said it was not restarting by itself before we swapped the guts into the new case. the only other odd thing I noticed was there were hardly anything in the start, programs, accessories folder. None of the usual things are there, no scandisk, defrag, etc. Only four items pertaining to communications are there. I can go to start, find, and type in Scandisk, or defrag, and windows finds them and I can run them from there. any ideas on these two probems? thanks, Joe
Mohan mrokkam@rediffmail.com 04/09/02	Heyy, I too have been having a similar problem. My comp also runs pretty cool but it still restarts ever so often. It is crazy. Ill be chatting with my parents..and it crashes!!! The temp reaches a max of 46 deg C I installed a new matsonic motherboard ms8137 with the via kt266a chipset. Would appreciate it if someone culd help Thanks Mohan.
PCTech straight@pioneernet.net 04/09/02	Power supplies can also cause this. The newer system boards "self monitor" the voltage getting fed to them and may reboot if there is a voltage drop. 300 Watt power supplies are highly recommended for the newer P-4 and Athlon systems. Outside power can also contribute to this (power from the wall). You might invest in an UPS (Uninterupted Power Supply w/ battery back up) to plug your computer into.
Rmoore rmoore@nosc.mil 04/09/02	I had this problem as well. turned out to be bad memory. My computer would work fine under normal operation. But when I would play Red Alert II, every time I would start to win the computer would freeze or reboot. I was getting quite frustrated. I reloaded windows 98, upgraded to ME, reformated the hard drive and switched to XP. What finally solved my problem was taking out the 256mb pc 133 dimm I installed two months earler. I had problems before I installed the 256mb pc 133 dimm, but that was related to a motherboard/processer upgrade. Seems that an AMD K7 requires at least a 300 watt power supply (found out after my third case/power supply). I have another computer that reboots all by itself whenever the keyboard drawer is pulled out too hard or if the desk gets a slight kick, but I have traced that to a crack on the motherboard (still useable as long as I am careful).
James T. luzbellas@hotmail.com 06/19/02	My computer also reboots after being on after a few minutes, sometimes it stays on for a couple of hours(random)but just ultimately ends up rebooting. I reformated the hard drive and re-installed Win 98 (also tried running Win 2000 Pro for a while but it had the same problem, it just re-booted itself also. I have replaced the video card fan, replaced the hard drive checked all the cables, disabled the CPU warning temperature in BIOS and after all that it still restarts itself whenever it wants. All the fans (CPU,video,power) seem to be working fine. What can I do to fix this problem?
GoPal 07/02/02	Yeah, I've been havin' the same problem, When ever I put a load on, like playing a game like GTA3 or Watching a DVD or even Making a flash Movie. It Would freeze for about 2 Seconds, and the the computer would restart. I recently about 2 weeks ago upgraded it from a Celeron 633 to a P3 800, Windows 98 SE to Windows 2000 Pro, and upgraded my BIOS. I have 320MB of Ram and that was upgraded about 5 months ago from 64 to 320, and I never had any problems until now. My CPU Fan is Fine, it's also brand new and keeps my CPU Temp at 47-50 C. I also have a Case Fan which keeps everything else cool. my Power supply is only about 5 Months old and is a 300 Watt. I am on a UPS (APC 350) and so and This problem is really annoying me if anyone can help it would be great.
Roger 07/05/02	Yes, I did have the same problem. I play Multi-Player games over the internet, specifically Commanche 4, but i was able to solve the problem by replacing the 256MB DDR RAM that came with my system. Apparently, it went bad on me after a month or so. This was after I did an extensive process of probable problem elimination that started with the operating system itself, the fan, the graphics card, CD ROM, motherboard, etc. and finally the RAM itself. My game would freeze intermittently and i could not even restart it using the control-alt-delete keyboard combination to reboot the system. Yes folks, the RAM can and will sometimes go south on you.
Massoud 07/05/02	Hi GoPal As you have recently upgraded some of your components, then the problem might be with a bad upgrade. I am not clear reading your post, at what stage of upgrade your problem started or even if you had your problem before. So please re-post with some specific details. In general, when a pc freezes, (apart from software hang-ups) it normally can be pointed towards CPU or RAM problems. However when the pc restarts by itself (W2k OS will create a log and reboot after encountering a software fault, this is its default setting), it is normally, either a faulty PSU, mobo or a faulty power cable and in your case even a faulty UPS. It is fair to say that hardware components go faulty or even give up ghost (die) at the beginning of their life cycle. Good luck
Massoud 07/05/02	Hi again GoPal I forgot to add. W2k has a very extensive hardware and software error logs. Those might give you a clue as well (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer) Good luck
Spaced 07/08/02	Not sure if this will help but, I had a simillar problem and found that the NIC was causing the rebooting. I fixed it by disconnecting the WOL (Wake On LAN) wire and that seamed to take care of it. Just one more possibilities if the other suggestions here do not work.
deathwalker 07/31/02	In this competitive world the quality of products has gone down. You may consider the man that went to the store and purchased a NEW pack of light bulbs, went home and replaced his light bulb with a new to find out his light still did not work.. of course he calls a repairman to come fix the light. The repairman flips the light switch and nothing happens, he then walks over to a lamp that has a bulb in it that he knows is a good working bulb, he removes the bulb and screws it into the light socket that he was called to repair, flips the switch and the light comes on .. The repairman collects his service fee and leaves..The point to this is : JUST BECAUSE IT IS NEW, DOES NOT MEAN IT IS IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION...Your parts may be 1 month old or 1 year old, or even new, but if the parts are not working correctly-- you get the picture !! Purchase a good name brand power supply- the ones that come with most atx cases are not considered GOOD QUALITY... If your computer restarts itself it is most likely the power supply went dead { or overloaded } for a second to cause this malfunction, first make damned sure your connections are tight and you have a good ground.. A good quality power supply will cost near $100 by the time u have it shipped to your dwelling.. If $100 is a lot of money to you as it is to me, it is possible to hook up a tester to the power supply to monitor its output during use before purchasing a new one. I have owned amd systems for 11 months and i have had to replace 2 of those generic 400 watt power supplies. The new power supply stopped my auto restarting on my shuttle board. The other power supply was hooked up to a chaintech motherboard, it just quit and had to be replaced. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
Devren bjearles79@hotmail.com 08/01/02	Re: My computer is rebooting itself!! I think my problem is that I am using a compaq presario 5240. At first, my computer would reboot itself for no reason at all. So I checked the fan only to find that its power supply came unplugged. After I plugged the fan back into the mother board, my comp worked just fine for about 3 months. Now all of the sudden it is rebooting itself again. I checked the fan and it is working perfectly. I think it may have something to do with the BIOS. I don't know how to access the BIOS on this stupid compaq. I recently replaced my factory Cd-ROM with a cd writer. I also upgraded my soundcard to a Soundblaster Audigy Platinum card. I read something about compaqs are really not upgradeable BECAUSE of the BIOS. If anyone can possible identify my problem or can tell me how I can updgrade my BIOS (if that is my problem) then I would appreciate it. Thanks
lisa 08/03/02	mine rebooots itself too and its scewing up the memory :( i think itneeds a new psu?! its athlon xp 1800+
Travesty 08/12/02	Reboots can be caused by the following: Bad Power Supply Memory Faulty Surge Faulty UPS Software faults/conflicts CPU Fan Overheating I would say most issues are either a bad power supply or a bad memory stick. Since most people don't readily have access to extra parts its hard to test. If it happens constantly in a specific program, check the software makers knowledge base for conflicts. If nothing it may still be memory. If you computer boots sometimes, restarts, then sometimes doesnt boot but the lights are on, it is most likely your power supply. If your computer keeps rebooting after about the same amount of time, it is most likely overheating and you will need to replace the cpu fan. A memory failure is like a software problem, it can happen basically anytime, and sometimes happens in certain programs constantly. well anyways thats a real basic rundown, and there are more technicalities but my time is short. -Travesty Network Admin(not from here)
Danny dneco55@hotmail.com 08/13/02	I have the same problem, my PC restarts or suddenly gives me a Fatal exception error. For example this one: Fatal Excemption OE has occurred at 0028:FF03CF00 What is this, can anyone help me out?
Jon 08/13/02	HELP! My computer does the same thing. My computer is new TOO! I have windows xp professional, and my computer is a hewlett packard is sucks! My computer restarts everytime I'm on the internet. It usually restarts when i click on a link or it would restart even if i juss leave my computer idle when the internet is on. I ran scandisk, norton antivirus, and checked my memory, cables, everything! My power supply can't be defective or my fan because it is new. This bites, i just plugged my computer into a different outlet. Its probley juss the surge or something, idunno. Oh yeah also the error or something says "Memory Disk error". Anyone having the same problem? Someone Help!!
lisa 08/13/02	hey! i got a new psu.. (athlon xp 1800+) and now i have no problems! though this could not be everyones problem, it worked for me. my comp rebooted whenever i did anything, now its been on all week.. and nothing its fine. good luck!
deathwalker 08/14/02	jon, sounds as though you may have a lack of memory issue..try closing some running programs--purchase more memory=ram...and check hard drive health... try : http://www.pcpitstop.com/
Jon 08/16/02	my hard drives are fine everything is fine, my memory is 192mb,and i really don't have many progams on. If i don't go on the internet my computer doesn't restart by itself. But if i am logged onto the internet it restarts and it is annoying. Thanks deathwalker.
Jon 08/16/02	OK my hard drive are in serious conditions, and my memory should be 256, and i do have alot of programs running. My computer is junk err.. im so mad! I hate hewlett packard! Anything with "PACK" in it sucks! Does anyone know anything about the new Gateway Laptops! Im thinking about getting the 450L series. Thanks get back soon!
Jon 08/26/02	I found out the problem. Its not my powersupply or anything like that it was my MODEM!! The driver was bad! And that is why everytime im surfing the net or trying to connect it sometimes always restarts! I get this error "ltmdmnt.sys" that is my modem driver, well i updated my modem driver and now my computer works fine.
z0id pheen47@hotmail.com 08/29/02	Deathwalker what shuttle board did you have? I have an AK32 that was faulty and would kill my power supply.
Snakie snake_100uk@hotmail.com 09/06/02	same things happening to me :( i recently did put in a new 128mb of ram pc133. this was probably the cause of my problems, yet i've taken it out and the same still happens. i checked inside my comp and my cpu fan isn't working, altho i've taken my case off and placed a huge fan next to it to keep it cool while i get a new cpu fan. doesn't seem to be helping, it still reboots after 5 minutes or an hour.this is really pissing me off i need it for college :\
boyet boyetc2002@yahoo.com 09/13/02	I have the same problem, my PC restarts everytime i copy file from the network, sometimes it restarts by itself then it will run the harddisk, sometimes a message will appear " Check PC cables, monitor is working". I checked all the cables, I reformatted harddisk, transferred my lan card to another slot. Somebody help me! my boss will kick me out.
boyet 09/13/02	traversty, what specific software conflicts do you mean? my pc is an intel celeron, 128mb with 5GB hd, win98 os and (sounds primitive type huh?) I wasn't able to finish installing ofc
jin 09/19/02	My computer restarts itself at random times but never when I'm playing a video game. In fact, that seems to make it behave for a little while. But eventually, it still restarts.
Snakie snake_100uk@hotmail.com 09/26/02	hello! i fixed my problem turns out that my processor had overheated and caused it to crack. it had also made a mess of my motherboard. both have been replaced, and since then no problems at all:)
April acech19@yahoo.com 10/05/02	I have a similar problem -- I just upgraded from Win95 to Win98, and every time I open up a couple browsers or have a couple programs on while I'm on the internet, it reboots itself. Anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?
Snakie snake_100uk@hotmail.com 10/06/02	check your fans. check your processor too, mine had a tiny crack on it on the back. your problem sounds like heat tho. goto start, then run and type "msconfig" goto the last tab at the end which says startup and untick any unnecessary programs. the things that should be ticked are: scanregistry, task monitor, system tray, loadqm, configuration loader, load power profile, scheduling agent and anything else that you need like mouse, sound of video card software. try it, worth a shot
BrianR bar4498@aol.com 10/07/02	I have the opposite problem all of a sudden. When my pc shuts down, it doesn't stay shutdown even though it has lost connection with the monitor. The harddrive sounds like it starts and the lights above the number pad on the keyboard come on but it doesn't really reboot.
Jake 10/12/02	I recently bought a Athlon XP 2100 with a Coolermaster cooler, A ASUS 8440, a 450 watt powersupply and 2 ddr dimms of 256 PC 333. I use this with a ABIT K7 333 Raid. When I startup my computer and play GP4, it works fine. After about half an hour my system freezes. After rebooting and trying to do something else, like trying to make wavs of mp3's, it instantly freezes again. This happend too when I start the computer for the first time. What could be the problem ? The power supply works fine, the cpu cooler too.
Jazzyjazz jasper002@earthlink.net 10/15/02	Good Day, To solve this problem, right click on MY COMPUTER, go to PROPERTIES,go to ADVANCED TAB, go to START UP and RECOVERY section and left click. Look in SYSTEM FAILURE section and uncheck the AUTOMATICALLY RESTART box...problem solved. jasper002@earthlink.net
dave davidvandervlist@hotmail.com 10/17/02	My computer crashes when i am copying a lot of files and running other software at the same time. For example: when copying files from a CD-ROM to my harddisk, while running Media Player and Word. I never had this problem before, it just appeared the last two weeks. Before it was no problem doing more things at the same time. Help me. davidvandervlist@hotmail.com
Salim salimsiwani@hotmail.com 10/18/02	I've just had the same problem with my XP1600 and KG7RAID. It had been working fine for ages then suddenly started blue screening or rebooting. Luckily I have a triple boot machine and found that Window2000 and Window98 were fine. Only XP was experiencing the problems. After lots of trial and error I found it to be the drivers of my SoundBlaster Audigy. I removed the XP drivers and installed the 2000 drivers and everything works 100%. As Travesty wrote earlier, the problems can come from anywhere. Just a matter of finding mates with spare hardware to test your assumptions otherwise it gets expensive :)
Jessi jbunni14@hotmail.com 10/20/02	My computer does this too. Everytime I try to go to the diplay settings it just reboots. Everytime. And with the settings I have now I can't play most of the games I have. I just reinstalled windows 98 and I didn't have this problem before that. Anyone have any ideas what this could be?
Mark motorcycle_mark@yahoo.com 11/03/02	my comp reboots all the time plz help our computer reboots all of the time we have win xp pro, a 1.2 mhz celeron with a MSI mainbnoard..no hardware is malfunctioning my brother says its a file gone bad could you plz resond because we would like to know what is wrong so we can fix the problem thx mark
Massoud 11/03/02	Hi Auto Restart can be disabled in: Control Panel > System > Advanced > Open Settings under �Startup and Recovery� de-select �Automatically Restart� Good luck
Lee Lee911@ev1.net 11/06/02	I just got a Compaq Presario 1700T and am having the same type of problems. My computer just decides that it doesn't want to run anymore and shuts down. I've read most of the postings and have tried to eliminate what I could. My cpu fan runs on start-up but as soon as I can't hear it running anymore the computer screen goes blank. I then have to turn it off and then turn it back on again after a few minutes. I want to install Windows 98SE on this computer but can't keep it running long enough to do anything. Any comments!
Alexander 11/12/02	I just built a computer and it would run fine until I swaped the old 10 gig hdd for a 20 gig the 10 gig was western digital and the 20 gig is maxtor. It now restarts every few times I start the pc, mostly whene I go on the internet or access my server. I checked the bios and it is 2002 and the temp is fine at about 35-45c. It is a brand new case with a 300 watt power supply. AMD Athlon XP+ 1600, 128 DDR RAm, 20gig hdd, 64mb Geforce 2, 8x8x32 Burner, 56x CD-ROM. Could someone help me with this problem? Please?
Bobbie bobbie42754@yahoo.com 11/12/02	Re: my fan isn't working can i fix it or get new My fan doesn't work is there things i can do to fix it or should i just get a new one?
Alexander 11/13/02	Bobbie you should just get a new fan, they are not expensive I would suggest www.tigerdirect.com you will probly pay $15-$25 for it and thats not much. Good Luck(:
Alexander R. 11/13/02	I fixed my computer, the junky power supply was malfunctioning, I found it out whene I tried putting the old hdd back in and it still did it so I checked my network adapter ...again... and tried a new one and it still did it so I tried an old 280 watt power supply from my pentium 2 pc and it worked great so i went and baught a 400 watt power supply...Work excellent now.(:
Benny Go 11/18/02	please please please help me! my computer suddenly restarts when i download a game from a cd!it is so annoying!i really wanna play those games please help!
RoD 11/22/02	My Computer freezes when I use it hard. I mean when I'm playing games. I found the problem to be overheating. Basically I found out that it was this because when I took the case off it would run fine, but when the case is back on, then after a while of hard gaming, it would restart. So that could be a fix, some new cooling.. =)
David Verhage info@khaoz.nl 12/04/02	HELP!! System specs: Intel P4 1.6 Ghz 654 Mb Ram Chaintech Motherboard Gforce2 Titanium 64Mb (before today Nvidia 128 32Mb) My system seems to crash when opening a 3d animation program. It has been running for the last 2 hours but the moment I try to animate its shuts down. I have to admit I set my CPU clock speed from 100 to a higher level in the bios and first it wouldn't start up. I removed the battery and restarted my pc. After six times of resetting it started up again. I changed the settings to fail safe default settings (an option in my bios). I even bought a new videoadapter (Gforce2 titanium) but this doesn't solve the problem. I can access all other programs even monitor the CPU usage and all...and my fan is working (there is a big dust cloud on that iron part below the fan) and in the pc health section I get normal stats... but in windows my system randomly reboots when accessing this program. Also when using Pshp 6 or Premiere 6.1. Anybody have an idea?
Ma5 12/04/02	What OS? Clean/replace your heatsink and fan. Make sure it is replaced correctly. Check your RAM using memtest86. www.memtest86.com Massoud
Zoe Blessing zoe@solien.com 12/04/02	3D animation programs and others such as Photoshop and Premier are all big fat memory-eating programs. They require lots of it to run, although it sounds like you've got quite a lot of it already. My computer has rebooted itself when I play a particular game that gobbles up memory the more I load and and save games. You've got 654MB of RAM, but make sure that's not being hogged by your program(s). You can view this in Task Manager. Perhaps there is a memory leak in the program? My game had one (Freedom Force) and I had to reboot after I was finished playing so my computer was useable again.
David Verhage info@khaoz.nl 12/04/02	Well I cleaned up the dust and all and I took up the advice of a friend of mine and checked my system log. But it seems that there is an error that occurs in my dhcp or something...how do I fix that...This is always the last log file when going into a spontanious reboot. Zoe Blessing you were also right about the memory stress that occurs opening photoshop and premiere. But what strikes me is that both these programs dont have any connection with DHCP... Any ways...help is appreciated! Greetz Dave
Tekchip tekchip@yahoo.com 12/08/02	I hope this helps some of you. I just recently upgraded to a GeForce 4 TI4200. I started having intermitent lock ups usually after half an hour or so. For me the fix was a larger power supply. Apparently Via chipsets, the kt266a imparticular have some power handling issues and can't evenly divy up power appropriately so your only choice is to over power your system so no divying has to take place to begin with. It's an unfortunate thing but it solved my problem. I noticed a few posts mentioning they are running Via chipsets so I hope this helps some of you.
Zoe Blessing zoe@solien.com 12/09/02	Unless you are part of a LAN that uses a DHCP server, you don't need to have that enabled. It's possible that it could be causing problems by looking for a DHCP server when there is none. Right click on My Computer, select Manage, then Services and Applications and finally Services. Scroll down in the right window until you see DHCP Client and double click on it. Press the STOP button and then change Startup Type to Disabled., then OK. That turns off the DHCP client service so hopefully you won't encounter those messages again. Zoe, MCP at Solien Technology
Brad 12/10/02	Ahhh! I have had my PC since August and 2 weeks ago it started this restarting madness. Only it doesn't just restart all the time, it shuts it self down for hours. Seriously, it won't come back on. All the leds stay lit, and the power supply runs, but nothing else. It also can restart, but 5 min later it will do the above. The RAM is the problem, I have a single stick of pc2100 DDR, 128mb. I had problems with it before, it would free up then go under a load again. I took it out threw in about 32mb of pc100, couldn't stand it and put the ddr in. No problem, until now...
Tom R. 12/13/02	Spontanous rebooting is caused by many things. Dirty Power is a big one. It is possible your voltages are off either from the line, surge supress or the Power supply itself. If you have a meter check your voltages. If you have a spare Power supply try it and see if the problem goes away. My next thing would be to test the Memory chips. Remove additional chips -discharge static electricity first by touching your grounded power supply for 4 sec or so. Then remove the chips and try each of them in different slots. If the chips seem to check out then try reseating the video card. Check to see if it is seating properly in the AGP slot. I have come across AGP slots that are slightly looser then they should be and this can cause problems. Try another Power Cord. If after determining that the PS is ok, The Memory is ok, The AGP slot is ok try removing all other cards but the video and all other devices but the Hard Drive and see if the problem goes away. If so reattach and reinsert your cards and devices like cdroms 1 at a time booting each time untill the offending device/card is discovered. If you are still having a problem there are only a few things left. The BIOS settings. Try Optimal default or safe load or whatever your board specifies. If the problem goes away you know its a setting in the Bios. The next thing to do is run diagnostic tests. If you have something like Norton Utilities run NDIAG or a similar software. Tuff Test pro is excellent- Windsor Software makes it and you might be able to use their demo. If at this point the Computer is still rebooting then you have narrowed it down to the Hard Drive, A Virus, Corruption of the Software, or a bad Motherboard. For the Hard Drive run the Diag from the company support site. Check for a virus, then I would consider reformating the drive. Windows XP is set to automatically reboot istead of giving you a blue screen. Microsoft was just a bit sneaky in not making this clear. In other words instead of crashing XP will reboot the machine if it finds a problem running itself such as conflicting drivers. The last thing to check now is the Motherboard. Motherboards go bad. Sometimes they are bad right out of the box. I had an ECS Board that caused spontanous rebooting exactly as you are describing it but it is still better to folow the troubleshooting elimination process. If you try everything I have outlined here and it still reboots after a clean install of XP replace the Motherboard. The only other thing is that the Motherboard itself is shorting out on the case but that is not as prevelant as it used to be but check it anyway.
Pip pipburrous@hotmail.com 12/16/02	I have had this HP computer for one week. The second day it restarted for no apparent reason. I have called HP numerous times. Each time the tech gave me different things to do, and thought it was something different. I have had this message come up: "Problem casued by ltmdmnt.sys" I have a lucent modem. I connect to the internet thru this modem, (dial-up) I have updated my modem's drivers, not online,because I can't seem to find it online.) But thru Control Panel, Modems, Properties, etc... I would really appreciate any help with this error message. I don't believe I am a complete idiot, but I don't thing I needed to reformat my hard drive, and all the other things that HP had me do. PLEASE HELP my email is pipburrous@hotmail.com
Zoe Blessing zoe@solien.com 12/16/02	Tons of Lucent modem drivers here: http://www.modem-drivers.com/companies/609.htm
Russ rrutter@nullparameter.com 12/20/02	Here is the deal guys, All of your Geforce cards are extremely unstable with the m810lm series bios on your motherboard. (Yes, the ones with SIS technology, at least all the ones i know are.) I personally am using a GEFORCE4 card 420mx designed by chaintech with the m810lr-h SIS 730 chipset XP 2100. At first I tried a power supply from 300 watts (factory) to 400.. THIS DOES NOT HELP. I tried POWERSTRIP..Helped alot in the beginning. Evidently when I tuned the AGP from 2x to 1x I could get about an hour of gaming before it would crash again. I upgraded my XP 2100 from 512 ram to a gig and it has rarely crashed on me. (running 24/7 it crashes every 3 days) which is acceptable at this point. I have heard that nvidia's detonator drivers with the geforce card will improve stability. Relax tho, This freezing and unstable stuff isnt because of 1 faulty motherboard.. Everyone with the m810lm series is having it. I also suggest looking in to a bios update. Some cards dont work at all until you flash your bios (PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS PROCEDURE AS YOU MAY HAVE TO GET ANOTHER BIOS CHIP IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING) If you need any more help just send me mail
Chris spyderskillz86@aol.com 01/07/03	Hi, can anyone help me please. My comp has been restarting by itself a lot, and not after like 30 mins, the time changes. Before it use to restart just like that whenever it wanted to. Then it only restarted when i played games. Then i formated my drive thinking it was some kind of virus and i save some stuff on a cd. When i put my stuff back on the new drive it still restarts, just like that. It is soo annoying. I didnt even put any games on it yet. Sometimes it restarts when im playing a movie, running a virus scan, or on the internet. Help me pleasesesesee.
Ma5 01/08/03	Hi Chris Your problem could either be hardware or software. If hardware is at fault then it would normally be a bad RAM or PSU(Power Supply Unit). For software: Corrupted or incompatible drivers would cause it to fail. If you need any more help then please answer the following. What OS? Was this OS an upgrade or was it shipped with the pc? Have you added or removed any hardware? What is the PC�s specification? When did it start giving you the fault? Do you use any Anti Virus programme? Do you use any Firewall? What test have you done to determine the fault? When you reloaded the OS, did you test the system without any other programmes being loaded? Do you have the latest hardware drivers for your system? Does the system reboot when in Diagnostic mode? Does it restart when in safe mode? This all that I could think of, any more clues would help to pinpoint the problem. Do the following and test before reposting: Use a deferent wall socket and power lead/cord for your power. Use a deferent PSU and test. Regards Massoud
Osheri Odium_tohr@hotmail.com 01/11/03	I hate it! Ffirst my specs ( they suck but work) pentium 200mgh processor 64mb ram OS: Win98 se after a while of running my computer will just restart i dont knwo whats causing it but i wish i did.. also sometimes when it has been off for a while i go to turn it on on it wont come on the led lights come on but nothing else HELP SEND E-MAIL
Tim 01/19/03	Two years ago i bought a Gateway 1.2Ghz Athlon, about 1 month after haveing the computer it started to reset on its own, when playing 3D games. I think the CPU is overheating, im not 100% sure of this, could be something else overheating but when I take the side of the case off and place a househould fan in the side of the computer the reseting stops. I sent the computer back to Gateway and they told me nothing is wrong with the computer. (As long as you do not try to run any heavy CPU apps, the computer will run all day.) So they did not help me. (heh bought a computer called the gamers dream and i canot play games on it.)
Stephen 01/19/03	My computer restarts by itself. Hello, Im running a KT333/ultra Soyo Dragon Platinum edition motherboard with an AMD Athlon 2100+, 256MB DDR pc2100,Ge-Force 2 MX400 and a 400W PSU. When I set the bus speed to 133 normal speed it works fine in win XP until I play a 3D game, it then reboots after about 10sec of play, when the bus speed is set back to 100 I dont get this problem.Is it my graphics card?. My CPU temp runs between 42-45 degrees C, ive got 2 case fans and 1 on the bottom of the PSU. PLEASE HELP!
z3r0 iamsongoku@hotmail.com 01/21/03	i gto Intel Celeron 1.7 Ghz 128 mb ram 16 meg video card and p4 motherboard with 500mhz bus.. whenever i play GTA3 ( my comp does fit minimum requirements ) it crashes when ever i hit a car or go into the garage and stuff any one find solution please email me or reply on here it would help alot
z3r0 01/21/03	^^ forgot.. i gto 500 watt case
Jeff beachbums@bellsouth.net 01/24/03	If your computer shuts off by itself,like someone turned off the switch, replace your RAM. Yes it does go bad. I had the same problem and someone told me to re-seat my ram. Well that did'nt work. I had 2 128meg chips and removed the oldest one and now it doesn't shut off anymore. I put the ram back in and it shuts off. Oh well you get the point. Good luck
john johnny_ru@hotmail.com 02/17/03	ok i got a new computer 6 months ago here are my specs amd 2100+ 2 times 256 ddr ram normal xp fan 300w ps 80g 7200 win XP home Everytime i start to play a game on the net about 10 minutes later it resets then when i turn it back on it says i have recovered from a serious error. And i cant play any games when i am not on the game just surfing the net it never resets. Most of my friends play this game a it never happens to them this is really ** me off and i dont know what to do. The temprature of my cpu is 62C when i ceck in BIOS. Can anyone tell me what to do and how can i fix this problem.
john johnny_ru@hotmail.com 02/17/03	ok i got a new computer 6 months ago here are my specs amd 2100+ 2 times 256 ddr ram normal xp fan 300w ps 80g 7200 win XP home Everytime i start to play a game on the net about 10 minutes later it resets then when i turn it back on it says i have recovered from a serious error. And i cant play any games when i am not on the game just surfing the net it never resets. Most of my friends play this game a it never happens to them this is really ** me off and i dont know what to do. The temprature of my cpu is 62C when i ceck in BIOS. Can anyone tell me what to do and how can i fix this problem.
net Hibachizfx@hotmail.com 02/18/03	my operating systom is windows xp every time i press the aol icon aol loads only after 6 minuets why is that?( my computer is a sony vaio the newest one that they have.)my freind is having the same problom. why does it take a long time for aol to load?
Matt 02/19/03	Every time that I go to play certain games (Warcraft 3, NOLF 2, Black Hawk Down Demo) they either restart while loading up, or work fine and restart when I exit the program. Is it a RAM problem? CPU? How can I fix this? System Specs: Biostar M7VIP Motherboard 256 megabytes of RAM Win XP Pro ATI RADEON 7200 AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Matt 02/19/03	the computer restarts not the games
Matt 02/19/03	nevermind, i fixed it. Turns out my vid cards fan wasnt plugged in. NOLF 2 and MOHAAS still dont work but theyre the hacked versions and the files are kinda messed up.
Matt 02/20/03	It started happening again. Ideas?
Chad intrudersmail@yahoo.com 02/27/03	Are any of you running Kazaa on your system??? Kazaa has some major issues such as spyware and gator. If your computer is shutting down and you are running kazaa or kazaa lite uninstall it and remove these evil programs. You may also have a virus!! Run virus scans regularly. Oh and John, If your system resets only when playing games, chances are theres a problem with your video card or drivers. Try to find the most current drivers for your video card. If your using a Gforce 2,3,or 4ti, Then run them in 32 bit color, Never 16 bit. For some odd reason the Gforce cards don't run stable in 16 bit color. Also check your power-supply. A bad power supply can overheat and cause a restart. Also make sure your power-supply is big enough to handle your system. Avoid using your power-supply to run neon lights, strobes, or any other add-ons. A separate 12 volt 500MA plug in power-supply will run alot of light effects without drawing power from your power-supply. And if your using a hacked copy of XP, then your probably screwed. "Thanks Bill Gates, for nothing"
Stephanie Gordon 02/28/03	Re: My computer restarts as well When installed Windows XP professional on to my computer it started to restart it self. I updated the BIOS and it done the same thing, now my computer is on the floor sitting there unfixed and i dont know what to do. It even more horrid becuase I work for a large computer firm and no one will help me to solve the problem. I am not technical my self so i don't have as much knowledge as them in solving problem like these. My computer has been like this for about a whole year now and I dodn't know what to do Please Please help me! "HELP ME PLEASE!"
james letsjam200289@yahoo.com 02/28/03	my comp resets alot and freezes when i play games! i just had my comp built about a month ago and it keeps reseting and freezing alot. I have a kt3 ultra motherboard, amd atalon 2000+, 256 mb ddr, and windows xp(if any of that sounded strange, im not good with the insides of computers)it keepa on reseting alot more now than when i first whent on it, it restarts on average about twice an hour if anyone knows why plz tell me cuz this really SUCKS!
james letsjam200289@yahoo.com 02/28/03	also i did a virus check i did a virus check and it deleted a few things, one of these things was the internet explorer icons, i can still get on to the internet throught my documents ect. i searched for it and it couldent find anything, can i download it from the internet somehow? i hope you know what i mean!
groove degroove@excite.com 03/01/03	Hey, My compaq labtop freezes whilst i'm watching dvd movies to be specific, not when i'm playing games or playing an audio cd, just dvd movies. And much unlike the rest of those mentioned,it doesn't have a certain time frame for running and it does not reboot itself. The picture just freezes so does the mouse and nothing works not even the old faithful ctrl+alt+del. Hence the problem leaves me with only one way of shutting it down and it ain't a nice way that's for sure. I did appreciate it if someone could give me a tip here on what the problem is and how to resolve it. Thanks
Jan bbjko@lycose.com 03/02/03	RE:Help(my friend needs help) Well she downloaded somthing and she opened it and it had a viruse with it. Now she is tring to do a system restore and wants to go back to go back to its origanal date she has only had it for a couple of weeks. Her d drive is not reconizing the disk?? She did it in safe mode
ThunderMoose ghandi@mailbox.co.za 03/09/03	Hi. I've been building computers for years and I've never had this problem. My PC either freezes or shuts down (never reboots) after a random amount of time (though it happens faster if I play a game or put some load on the system). I've tried everything. At first I suspected the PSU to be the problem, so I plugged out ALL my cards except for the screencard as well as my CD rom drives to give the system extra power. It still did it. I changed hard disks, tried a different screencard, put an extra fan on the system and finally rebuilt the whole thing on the table outside of the box to check for HDD malfunction, faulty screencard, overheating and earth leakage problems respectively to no avail. All I can think is that it must either be the memory (PC800 RIMMS), the CPU (P4 1.6ghz) or the MB (Intel MD850). It even happens in old games that shouldn't put any strain on the system at all. I'm totally baffled. I've read all the posts above but couldn't really find anything helpful. I'm am defeated, any help would be kindly accepted.
kalifa afilak@hotmail.com 04/08/03	my computer reboots when et gets hot matter of few minutes no applications are running either i thought it was the fan my fan would work then wouldnt work anymore and just recently work again while having the same problem the whole time i have to usb ports and the driver signing says i have 3 usb hubs with a total of 6 usb ports that is not right i dont know .. i have formated and installed again and again it still just shuts down with the windows critical error screen the blue one and doesnt start up until it cools down. i have no clue what is wrong with this labtop and i can usually fix my own computer problems.
Mike 04/14/03	Damn Windows XP it's bugged.. I have been using computers from the x386 days, I never had any problems of random resets until I moved to Windows XP. Don't get me wrong I have had crashes before but nothing like this, its completey random, and yes I have replaced every single component to check. It's not to do with overheating either, because sometimes it reboots when it is just switched on after being off for weeks. Temperture are very low. I have used many computers with Windows XP installed and most of them have random reboots. CONCLUSTION IT'S WINDOWS XP, IT'S THE WORSE OPERATING SYSTEM EVER..
Johnny johnnyto1979@yahoo.com 04/20/03	I can't install windows I have a, motherboard m7vip, xp1800, ddr 2700, geforce4 mx, sdram 64mb, hdd 40 7200, cdroma teac, and when I install windows, it crash, xp give me errors, 98 se ,, is sleeping. Any ideeas ???
raj raj_mehra2kin@yahoo.com 04/23/03	hi my computer is frezze after 10 minutes i have everyhing checked my fans are ok plz try to solve my problem
Lynda lynda.b@absamail.co.za 04/25/03	Re: My computer overheats when I run an antivirus I have recently had my processor fan, video/display card and modem replaced which has solved a few of my problems but everytime I try to run my antivirus programme or Ad-Aware my PC overheats! The PC runs quietly now and apart from the antivirus programme nothing seems to be causing any problems. Any advice would be appreciated. thanks
Gonzo emvee@seznam.cz 04/27/03	hi. my computer can run smooth for 20 hours (and probably more, but i've never tried). but everytime I turn it on (that is every morning), this happens: system crashes during starting of windows. i have to reset it. after two or three minutes, it reboot itself. and again and again. after 6 or 7 minutes, it starts to run smoothly, and everything is ok, until i turn it off a then on again. Now, every time I turn on my computer, I go to bios. I wait for about 7 minutes, reboot computer and wait for system to boot. And everything is fine. But I can't work with it immidiately. I've already tried to change my RAM memory a graphic card, but problem remained. Any ideas? (i apologize for my horrible english) biostar m7vip duron 900 128 ddr geforce 2mx 300w atx. Well and my cpu temperature is around 50^C.
Rol 05/06/03	Yeah, my computer froze on high 3d graphics too. So I took the side off and put a big fan on it after I noticed it would do it faster when It got hotter (not the cpu temp), then I can play the games just fine, only when the room gets really hot does it freeze up. Try it it worked for me and was cheap!
graham stuartfoot@ntlworld.com 05/17/03	My computer also resets itself after about 20-30 minutes but I find if I reset it myself 3 times as soon as I turn it on it will run for hours. I have tried it with different PSU, ram, CD drive, hard drive, all cards, operating system everything except a new motherboard and CPU. According to bios and motherboard monitor the CPU tempreture doesnt go above 40. I cant think what else I can do and am contemplating buying a new motherboard but this would feel like giving up and if the problem still continued I would be less than happy!!
Stephen Ginn rusaginn@hotmail.com 05/19/03	Re: My computer crashes without warning Help!! I just built my first pc over 3 months ago. It locks up continuously. I once clocked it locking up 20 times in two hours. And it is not a simple control+alt+delete fix. When it locks up then the only way to restart it is to press the reset button or press in the power button for 10 seconds. I've tried everything..diagnostic tests, taking out hardware to eliminate the problem, and reconfiguring my BIOS, but nothing seems to work. Here are the specs of my computer: P4 1.5 GHZ Motherboard Geforce 4 graphics card Floppy Disk Drive CD-RW Drive CD-ROM Drive ATX 350 watt power supply 160 mb. memory 17 in. monitor P4 processor mouse keyboard 56k modem 2 case cooling fans 1 processor cooling fan I also checked the heat on the processor and found it often at 118 degrees. I checked all of my fans and they were all working so I am not sure if this is the problem or not. Please respond as soon as possible. I would very much appreciate to have this thing fixed, so that I can enjoy it during the summer holidays. Stephen Ginn
Frank 05/19/03	I would be suspusious of the 160 mg ram. That means you are probably using a 128meg stick along with a 32 meg stick. The common superstition is when using more than one stick of ram to use the same size. Like two 128, etc. Mixing ram sizes can be a problem. Is that THE problem? Don't know. But I would dump the 32 meg stick of ram and see if that helps.
fanATIcX 05/19/03	Re: Re: My computer crashes without warning Stephen, If it doesn't turn out to be your memory, which it could. I would suspect that it is an overheating problem. 118 is 47C and that is about 10C too hot. Are you overclocking? If so, go back to standard speed and see if that resolves your problem. May be time for some new fans.
Cory 05/24/03	i just waited till they got most bugs out of xp and it works fine for me
oZZy 05/26/03	My computer won't boot up any more! I've just got a new desktop, with: 2600 AMD processor Biostar M7VIP 333 Motherboard (the troublemaker!) 128mb Geforce FX 5200 3D Card 2X 512mb DDR RAM etc... The problem is probably entirely my own fault: having booted up the computer for the first time, I decided to go into BIOS setup to check that all the settings were to my liking. I decided that it would be best to leave everything on default, so I hit the "Restore Optimized Defaults" key and then "Save and Exit". Despite the settings now being on default, the computer won't boot (the drives and fans start to whirr, but the hard drive doesn't seem to kick in and nothing at all comes up on the monitor or speakers). What have I done, and how can I fix it? Someone please help! PS Would a manual BIOS reset work; if so, how do I do it?
caperjack 05/26/03	you should have just exited with out saving changes ,go back in and just .,set defaults, not restore optimised defaults
reinhart netspion@hotmail.com 06/14/03	here me!!! the solution is a new fan for your cpu i had the same problem and i solved it whith a new fan!!
ugh 06/18/03	im sick
Harold rold2002@yahoo.com 07/02/03	Re: My computer hangs everytime i play GAMES! my problem is...everytime i play games on my pc it always hangs or should i say it stop responding and i don't know why!by the way im using a ECS motherboard(K7VTA3)VIA KT266A Northbridge and VT8233 Southbridge chipsets and support DDR 266 SDRAM,an ATX mainboard as far as i know with FSB of 133Mhz AND MY PROCESSORS IS ATHLON XP 1.6 Ghz and 256 PC266 DDR Memory. The games that i play when it hangs are Grand theft auto vicecity and NBA Live 2003.I also follow all the system requirements that the games said but unfortunately it has not the problem!pls help me to fix it and if you have some ideas on how to end up that problem at this time i would say "thank you so much"...I ask so many person who knows a lot on pc games and troubleshooting but one of them never reply and i hope you are the one who can help me... P.S I recently update my videocard and motherboard driver to a new driver update because one the games required is that it will not going to play if my driver came form installtion cd coz there are new released driver update and do you think it helps to decrease the problem or increasing it?
Rick1ne dbz2097@hotmail.com 07/08/03	Computer randomly restarts The prob is not with any of my PCI cards (or graphics card). I know its either 1) My PSU 2) My RAM, or 3) My CPU Fan. I've had my PSU for 1.5 years, and I got it from a PC Case. I'm guessing it has packed in/become too dusty. If it is not this, then it is probably my RAM, I don't know why but I just suspect it. If not that, it is definately my CPU fan, even though my CPU is not overheating. But I'd say that there is a 70% chance that it's a PSU prob. I will buy a new one tomorrow and let you know how it goes...
Steve tokedown@comcast.net 07/09/03	Re: My computer is rebooting all the time I keep getting a mINI DUMP ERROR and I am sooo sick of it cause it reboots me all the time. I have a ABIT NF7S mother 2500+barton radeon 9700 128m pro graphics card and a 400 watt power supply it has something to do with XP But how do I fix it
marty sunlight17@msn.com 07/31/03	HI:i got an emachines about 7 months ago.not thinking at the time i was going to get deep in to gaming.so i went out and got 512x2 2700 ddr memory sticks and a fx5200 pci graphic card.(yes pci).so i went and got all the battle field stuff and loaded it up.when i went to play it was kinda laggy not bad but i was getting srecks across the screen didn't look right.then the system started to reset it self after about 15 to 20 minutes. specs:-1.8 celeron w/intel heatsink and fan -512x2 ddr (2700) -fx 5200 (pny)pci -250watt power supply -2xfans -17"monitor -52x24x52 cd-r -48x cd rom -windows xp home -40 gig hard drive -cable modem SO after the problems i went and got a new case and power supply&fans and graphics card and still have the problem only now it sends me back to my windows xp desktop it dont reset the computer.now i have. (powmax) -400watt power supply -3x (powmax)fans w/4 led's each -1 standard fan -(powmax)case with x window on side -1.8 celeron w/intel heatsink and fan -2x 512 (2700) ddr -fx5200 ultra 128mb agp card -17"monitor -40 gig hard drive i tyred everything reformated,reinstalled game,unpluged all case fans&cd-r,put new paste on heatsink,tryed one memory at a time.i dont know what to do from here.please help if can.
Morace Morace_atkins@hotmail.com 08/03/03	What motherboard have you got? its the only thing you left out.. but could be most important.. Also i recomend downloading 3dmark 2001. Its the best thing to test your graphics, memory and processor stability. Leave it running for a while, then you can find out if it is game related or hardware related.. Let me know about the motherboard
William wille2@charter.net 08/03/03	Hello all. I read through the forum and have had a similar problem with my system crashing. I bought a new Abit at7 max2 with a Amd 2500 Barton with 1 GB of 333 ddr. My new system ran like a champ but now it is crashing and I mean hard. No system event(Win 2k platform)no warning, nothing just BLAM its down. The auto reboot checkbox has been cleared. It started when I was using Office 2003 beta and I thought I had been bit by the beta bug so I uninstalled it. Crashed during uninstall. I pulled out one of the pieces of memory and did the uninstall. So far so good. Im hoping that maybe the memory is bad and I can get on with running this thing. This product, 3dmark 2001 will help diagnose this? Im going to try it and hopefully help me diagnose it. Anyone with ideas is free to email or post here to the board for it would be much appreciated!
marty sunlight17@msn.com 08/03/03	soyo dragon lite having problems running "battlefield 1942" also made changes to the bios and found out that my system cache&ram cache were disabled.so i turned them on and it works with out shutting down.but when i run the game its real laggy and i shouldn't my buddy as less of a system and i runs better then mine im just not getting all that i shoul out of it.i ran 3d mark2003 and scored 1844 that pretty bad if i say so.im still learnig about my bios and what they mean but i dont really what they should be.like my agp volt,agp apeture 64,128,256 and so on i just want to get the best out of my system i have bean working on it for the past month and it sucks,but this way i know everything when i'm done.please help.and thank you for writing back. my system again is: - soyo dragon lite - 1.8 celeron w/intel heatsink&fan -2x 512 (2700)ddr -fx5200 ultra ddr -400watt power supply -48x cd rom -52x24x52 cd burner -4 case fans case runs (30)deg cpu (44)deg. cable modem (comcast)
marty 08/03/03	sorry for the typing errors still learning.
Moses 08/08/03	Computer Freezes My computer has got Geoforce 4 mx440 256 ram 40 gig harddrive My computer when it plays 3d games like gta3 or warcraft3 it freezes and i have to reboot the computer it really anoys me cause my games keep screwin up please help me?
marty 08/08/03	to:moses tell me what you have in your system.from fans,power supply ,processer,ddr or sdram,32,64,128 video card? and does it happen when your playing and how long before it locks up.mybe i can help i had that problem and i fixed it.
Jason 08/23/03	A freind of mine had the same problems with pc crashing when playing games. The rest of the time PC was fine, the problem was cured when I put the specific drivers in for his motherboard from his motherboard disc. The reason he hadn't done this was that he had recently installed windows xp & it had put its own drivers in to suit the motherboard.
Richard dent@fsmail.net 08/27/03	My computer is restartng randomly and every time it restarts I get the same error message os256 and sometimes it can differ. I have built 3 PC's so far and never had a problem until P4, I have built my son a PC using P3 CPU and Motherboard with same XP operating system and his PC is ok, so I am putting the fault down to P4 cpu and motherboard, any input into this matter would be appreciated, Iam running a Gigabyte P4 titan series 8SQ800 Ultra motherboard with a Pentium celeron 1.8GHZ cpu with a 3d hercules prophet 7000 64mb agp graphics board = 120GB HD my psu is 450 watt and memory of 512 DDR
marty sunlight17@msn.com 08/27/03	to richard:hi this is marty.i had alot of problems to with my system with it shutting down and i fixed them.i also have a celeron 1.8ghz and a fx 5200 ultra 128mb.one thing you want to look at is make sure your multapler is set x18 and your front size bus (100)you could even go to (103)that will give you (1850).also make sure volts are set at (1.77 volts).next make sure ram cashe,system cache are enabled.what kind of memory do you have? just a little hint (dr2100 uses 133)(ddr2700 uses 166)settings.also try putting your video card volts to 1.6 or 1.7 on my card i have it set to 1.6 and i have no problems only when i'm in battlefield and theres 64 people around me its kinda shacky but thats celeron other then that i have no problems. i hope i help a little.
ramona monalove0843@charter.com 09/07/03	i think the setting default color for my monitor needs to be reset like it was so what should i do to get the setting back
ddr ddr@alamotitle.com 09/09/03	Re: my presario 2700 laptop powers off my presario 2700 XP laptop power off after about 30 minutes.
sylvia 09/09/03	My computer shuts down fine. But after a few hours or so of being off, It will turn back on? Occasionally it will stay off, but majority of the time I will have to unplug it to avoid it turining on in the middle of the night. Any suggestions of a fix? 2yr old AMD, WIN ME OS
Donald 09/19/03	CHECK THE VOLTAGE both i/o voltage and vid voltage had a similar problem that anytime I would load or play a game and the computer would freeze or turn off. Spent days and days this is the only thing that made it work so the people who computers work with a fan pointed on it your voltage is to high and would overheat you sound and video cards causing it to freeze or turn off. This will fix it permanently if not your components are corrupted.
dj SINtil8 10/23/03	Hey ppl. Was wondering if someone might be able to help me with a problem i am having. Recently upgraded pc which all works fine, but i decided to set up old processor/motherboard just to have a spare on hand. It ran fine for the first 10 mins, and then the monitor went into stand-by mode, and wont work again until the power supply has been disconnected for a number of hours. Then it will operate for approx 10 mins again before monitor goes to stand-bye mode.The system is a pcchips m810lr v7.1 motherboard with on-board graphics card AND AGP slot and AMD Duron 950Mhz processor with 400W powersupply. The problem occurs with both the on-board and AGP. I have tried another m810lr v7.1a motherboard, another processor(AMD Duron 900Mhz), 3 different power supplies, 3 different monitors, both the on-board graphics card and AGP slot on BOTH motherboards (and two different AGP cards) 5 different HDD, 4 different CD/DVD-rom drives, 10 different IDE cables etc etc, AND tried them in every possible combination in 3 different ATX cases. It is like the pc is still running(i can see HDD led light flashing occassionaly), but the monitor has just gone into suspend or stand-by mode. I'm ready to pour petrol all over the lot of it and drop a match to it.. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions??
dj SINtil8 10/23/03	I should clarify and say that it wont work again until the power supply to the PC has been disconnected for a few hours, not the power to monitor.
Capn 10/23/03	Has there been any conflicts/problems made known when pairing the new Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB Video Card with the Gigabyte 8SQ800 motherboard? Or perhaps a specific Bios setting or Vid Card setting or driver that would need to be installed/set prior to using? I go into a game and after 20 minutes or so of play, the PC either shuts down automatically and reboots and asks to "send error" or it will make a horrible sound through my headphones and then from the PC itsself and lock up (I then have to manually power down). I know that the Gigabyte boards recomments PC3200 DDR RAM, but I currently have 1 GIG of PC3700. Would this be an issue? I run the Pentium 3.06 Processor w/ Hyperthreading and have a 500 WATT power supply. Any help/advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
aMANB AMAN@ELANDGROUP.COM 10/31/03	Re: My computer is crashing after 1MINUTE I DOWNLOADED THIS WINDOWS ACTIVATION CRACK FROM Kazaa AND RAN IT THROUGH MY ANTI-VIRUS,IT WAS OK,BUT AFTER INSTALLING IT(IT HAD TO BE INSTALLED IN SAFE MODE),MY COMPUTER JUST STARTS,THE WIN XP SCREEN SHOWS UP AND THEN MY COMPUTER IS REBOOTED.WHY?i HAVE WINDOWS xP WHICH DOES NOT HAVE A DOS DISKETTE.SO I CAN'T EEVNE DELETE THIS THING.WHAT SHALL I DO?
invincible 11/15/03	ya i have this also my computer restarts randomly u will never know when usually when i use an application like games. Im not sure if it has to do with ramn or anything else i have currently 4 fans in my copmuter havnt taken temp tests. I dont think it is the temperature though people say it might be my video card. I have a: AMD AthlonXP 2400+ Windows xp 256meg of ram (low i think i need more) gforce 4 mx440 i currenly have directx 9.0b installed wich i hear isnt compadable with my video card could that be the reason? and i cant revert back b4 it cuz bro turned of system restore. i called tech support for ABSPC where i got my computer they couldnt help me. strange stuff i think its the ram
mirse 11/15/03	What error message do you get when the computer restarts? For those who may not know, in order to see the error message when the computer re-starts, try this: "To be able to see the blue screen stop message; Control Panel\|System\|Advanced\|Startup and Recovery, I usually like to uncheck "Automatically reboot" this way you get a chance to read the stop error." mirse@aol.com
Onslaught 11/19/03	STOP: 0x009C (0x004, 0x00, 0xb200, 0x00020151) "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" that is what i usually get for an error.
invincible 11/21/03	STOP: 0x009C (0x004, 0x00, 0xb200, 0x00020151) "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" that is what i usually get for an error.
marge southern20032001@yahoo.com 12/21/03	no sound from speakers. will not talk. what could my computer will not talk. it has in the past. what could be the problem?
Jeanne 12/30/03	LISTEN TO THE GUY WHO SAID NEW FAN. I too did not believe that a stupid $2 fan was the answer and laughed as my boyfriend brought it over to install to fix my XP issues. But it worked. And Now I repeat. LISTEN TO THE GUY WHO SAID ADD A NEW FAN
chee teng chee_nikki@aussiemail.com.au 01/04/04	my computer is sometimes it boots sometimes not my compuyter somes boots up and sometimes it dose what dose that main?
Rich rich@SIRUIS-FREEWARE.COM 01/04/04	Its called W32.Blaster.Worm or A other version of the Blater WORM, it will shut down your comp for no reson ( ReBOOT ) Apply the fix and keep windows updated it does'nt affect win 95 and 98 just above sys.
Rich Rich@siruis-freeware.com 01/04/04	OH yeh and viruis protection wont pick it up, but Stiner might?? You have to get the update to keep from getting it, maybe MSN put it out so you have to update and that would kill the cracked copies that you cant update? But the update is suposed to stop you from getting it.
maxtek28 maxtek28@yahoo.com 01/15/04	hi, i have an ak32 shuttle mainboard, it started rebooting randomly in winxp or win2k, i bought new ram , two sticks of ddr pc2100 mem @256 mb each, now it reboots randomly i formatted the hard drive and assured it was kept cool enough. and when i go to shutle and get the bios, my pc rejects the file,
Andrew cellphone_guy@hotmail.com 01/16/04	Mine doesn't even recognize the hard drive and it resets its self instantly for a good 5 gtimes before i see something on the screen.
Alan 01/17/04	Does anyone know if the MSI KT3-Ultra (NOT ARU)will accept a Athlon XP processor above the 2600+ ? According to MSI's website it won't; however, I tend to doubt this as a fact because of past experiences. So, if anyone has heard of someone successfully doing this, please let me know. Thanks, Alan
surf 02/02/04	Often it's the most obvious thing thats the problem Example: Pc kept rebooting or would not boot up at all made sure the video board connections were clean and noticed that the Hard drive - I have two AND 2 CD ROMS (1 Re-Write) have wide cables almost like parcel tape - I thought could that be obstructing the airflow? so I taped them up out of the way with common or garden electrical tape ;) WOrks PERFECT!!! NOW - it was the cables droping down and obstructing the airflow! I did use a Camera Lens Brush to scrub the fan Blades though - seems fine now ;) ;) =) =O
mike miknex@yahoo.com 02/06/04	Re: My computer isnt starting at all my computer isnt starting at all and it as all brand new parts and everything. the mb is a ecs k7vta3 and it doesnt do anything.
Tichinde 02/25/04	Most likely you ALL have blaster. Try this link if you want to get rid of it: http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&na=90&View=en-us&qu=blaster
Mark 02/25/04	Blaster brings his own timer. "The computer will shut down in 60 seconds"...59...58...57...etc... That's Blaster.
ranko ranko@bitinfo.co.yu 03/06/04	re: mini dump WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini030604-02.dmp how i solwe the problem
mantos 03/07/04	my fx5200 crashes the system after 5 minutes hello evert body, I've got a blem with my g-card. I'v had a nvidia mx440, it worked perfectly, But I bought an Fx5200 128 ddr, but it doesn't work more than few minutes on my computer. the screen shuts down and the computer blocks.. and nothing seems to help it. and the problem is that when I brought it back to the seller, it worked normally, and the guy didn't want to change it or give me back my money. I've got a: p4 2.4Ghz. 256 RAM (DDr). 120 Gigs. Intel motherboard.
mantos 03/07/04	eeh, sorry, I fogot to say thanx
Mark 03/07/04	Hey Mantos. It is always hairy to change graphics cards. Usually, you need to fully uninstall the older card before you install the new one. The Windows registry is filled with graphics related entries, so changing cards means the registry may need a good cleaning, which is never easy... Have you tried uninstalling all nVidia software (drivers) from Control Panel before installing the FX 5200 ?
mikeyb n/a 03/08/04	Mantos, Mark is right, there can be lots of conflicts wth registry when changing graphics cards, usually removing the card AFTER changing the adapter to VGA does the trick, as when you then add the next card you are really at stage 1 as you will already be at VGA mode and then you just add the drivers again. I would say don't use that supplier again! usually as good will the supplier will replace or refund as long as you have the receipt, but as you have already tried to instal the g.card then he is in his rights to refuse. I would suggest going to a reputable dealer or a site like ebuyer.co.uk i bought a graphics card from them, which worked for 3 months then failed (the client i bought it for installed lots more internal components and over heated the g.card - blew the dam thing!) I removed it and contacted ebuyer, and they just replaced the card free of change. I only had to pay for postage! good customer service if you ask me! dam good price for UK g.cards as well. Regards MikeyB
Mark 03/08/04	Hey MickeyB, thanks for stopping by. I have limited experience in this field, and am not quite sure what the best way is to revert back to VGA ; the only time I saw "default Windows VGA" was when I uninstalled my vid card driver once. Is there a simpler way ? Should Mantos completely uninstall his MX 440 software before trying anything else ? I'm sure any info on this will help many others out there... Thanks in advance. Regards, Mark.
Joe aoe_Dude@yahoo.com 03/21/04	Computer reboots after 2 mins Man I bought a new mobo and cpu in january I've had a problem with it ever since. It would reboot after i try reinstalling windows xp, then i was like oh the manual says 333mhz ram so i got and buy 256 DDr 2700 ram. same damn problem. My cpu is a AMD XP 2600 but when I set it on 2600 it reboots when i set it a 266 (2000 xp it shows up) it works fine. I noticed that the other versions of my motherboard had bios problems and they have fixed for em but not my motherboard POS. I have no clue whats wrong. Anyone who had this problem get it fixed? send me an email aoe_Dude@yahoo.com I have a ECS k7vta3 v6.0b
crookie 03/27/04	My newly built computer (P4 2.8 256 Win2k) starts itself after it's been shutdown for 30 minutes. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance!
Joe 03/27/04	Your problem might be over heating problems p4 2.8 thats fast it needs to be cooled a lot. check your fan on your heat sink and make sure your have thermal paste on it.
ed 03/27/04	location location on a simpler note may some of you have the cpu in a contained or too closed in of an area where the air circulated is warm raise it up off the floor and have it in wide open, my wifes 98 machine never froze after I put it ontop of the desk.
MikeyB 03/27/04	Message for Mark above, sorry mate, been very busy .. teething baby! you know how it is.. VGA!! hmm.. the best way is before you remove the card, goto display adaptors in control paned, click on adapter and click on change, then click on standard graphics, and choose VGA, this will then unbind the graphics drivers from the PCI card. Then on reboot, you hould find yourself on VGA!! let it log back in - big fonts! then shutdown, remove the card and put in the new one, pc chould autodetect the new card and then ask for drivers, put in driver cd, or if the same model card but highter spec... say upgrading a Gforce2 64m to a Gforce4 titanium 128 then the detenator drivers are all bundled together on the same drivers CD (but will stll be installed on your PC from the previous card) choose whatever drivers you want to use and install them. Basically, you have to unbind the drivers from the PCI card before removing it.. then reboot in VGA, then shutdown and remove old card.. insert new card and reboot!! easy as... Regards MikeyB

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