Pc Keeps Rebooting And Randomly Locking Up
Replies: 14 | Post Date: June 3rd 2005 | User: Kevinj45 | Forums: devhardware.comI've got a friend that i built a pc for. It now keeps rebooting and randomly locking up. It usually locks up while gaming, but has recently begun this while not gaming. We brought the thing to our office, where it did not lock up during over an hour of gaming and benchmarking. By taking it to another location, i have narrowed the problem to either the monitor, or the outlet the thing is plugged into. Question is, has anyone ever seen a monitor or bad outlet cause a pc to behave like this?
Related Posts & Messages
Please Follow Index to Quick Jump to the Message:-
Please Follow Index to Quick Jump to the Message:-
- Computer Keeps Randomly Locking Up
- Computer Is Randomly Rebooting Itself
- Randomly Rebooting And Strange Clicking Noises
- Computer Locking Up Minutes After Starting
- Nvidia Video Card Locking Up
- Usb Hard Drive Locking Software
- Software Programs For Dfs Block Level Sync And Real Time Open File Locking
- Pc Died Upon Rebooting
- Rebooting Issues
- Continuously Rebooting
- I7 Random Rebooting
- Pc Keeps Rebooting To Post
- Computer Rebooting Without Warning
- My System Just Keeps Rebooting - Win Xp
- Rebooting During Raid Expansion
- Faulty Hardware ? Just Built Computer Keeps Rebooting
- Random Shut Down, Freezing And Rebooting Before Windows?
- Disable Sound In Device Manager Without Rebooting
- Amd Gpu Clock Tool And Rebooting
- Pc Rebooting - Dvd Rom Drive Issue
- Pc Randomly Crashing
- Pc Restarting Randomly
- Randomly Freezes
- Computer Randomly Shut Off
- Computer Going Into Stand By Randomly
- Computer Shutdown Randomly
- Monitor Will Randomly Go Black
- Computer Randomly Turns On
- System Randomly Reboots Itself
Computer Keeps Randomly Locking Up
I can be surfing the internet or listening to music and my computer keeps randomly locks up and when it does it i have to switch it off at the mains and back on again. I have tried removing the cmos battery, reinstalling windows. I have also tried a new power supply but still it makes no difference.
Posted On: June 17th, 2007, 01:42 PM . View 8 Replies .
I can be surfing the internet or listening to music and my computer keeps randomly locks up and when it does it i have to switch it off at the mains and back on again. I have tried removing the cmos battery, reinstalling windows. I have also tried a new power supply but still it makes no difference.
Posted On: June 17th, 2007, 01:42 PM . View 8 Replies .
Computer Is Randomly Rebooting Itself
I was using my comp all day today with no problems. I started up eq2, and was ending some tasks which i always do. Now my computer is randomly rebooting itself constantly for the past 15 minutes, making a beep when it does. Any idea what the *** is going on with it?
Posted On: June 25th, 2005, 08:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
I was using my comp all day today with no problems. I started up eq2, and was ending some tasks which i always do. Now my computer is randomly rebooting itself constantly for the past 15 minutes, making a beep when it does. Any idea what the *** is going on with it?
Posted On: June 25th, 2005, 08:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
Randomly Rebooting And Strange Clicking Noises
My computer has gone crazy and it is driving me mad! It began with the computer randomly rebooting and strange clicking noises. I thought it was the power supply (it was a vt-300tatx). I replaced it with a suggested vt-400atx). Everything seemed to be fine for several weeks. My daughter installed the sims game on it and suddenly it started freezing up when it got to a certain point in the game, and then it started rebooting. I thought it was a problem with the os so i wiped c: and reformated it and tried to reinstalled windows 2000 professional, which is what i was running on it. Now nothing works right. Sometimes when i turn the computer on, the fan runs bu the computer doesn't boot. After flipping the off/on switch a couple of times it will boot. I can usually get it to the c: prompt, but sometimes when i try to run commands it freezes up. When ever i try to install windows i get errors. Windows 2000 professional: oe, 06 and od errors. Windows 98: file xxx. Xx corrupted, error 14, etc. , Always with a different file or else the system freezes up during installation of files. Same with 2000: freezes during file installation. Windows 95 (i even tried that) won't even start up. Sometimes, the system won't recognize the cd rom drive. I am at wits end. Most of the diagnostics i have will only run under windows, and i can't even install it. Most of microsofts db articles don't apply or you need windows installed to complete their suggested fixes. I ran memtest86 and the memory is ok. I even swapped out the memory card so that's not the problem. I tried reinstalling the mbr but nothing there. And all the registry diagnostics i have need windows to run. I am at wits end! Help! Anyone have any idea before i commit hari-kari?
Posted On: 31-08-2004, 12:32 AM . View 6 Replies .
My computer has gone crazy and it is driving me mad! It began with the computer randomly rebooting and strange clicking noises. I thought it was the power supply (it was a vt-300tatx). I replaced it with a suggested vt-400atx). Everything seemed to be fine for several weeks. My daughter installed the sims game on it and suddenly it started freezing up when it got to a certain point in the game, and then it started rebooting. I thought it was a problem with the os so i wiped c: and reformated it and tried to reinstalled windows 2000 professional, which is what i was running on it. Now nothing works right. Sometimes when i turn the computer on, the fan runs bu the computer doesn't boot. After flipping the off/on switch a couple of times it will boot. I can usually get it to the c: prompt, but sometimes when i try to run commands it freezes up. When ever i try to install windows i get errors. Windows 2000 professional: oe, 06 and od errors. Windows 98: file xxx. Xx corrupted, error 14, etc. , Always with a different file or else the system freezes up during installation of files. Same with 2000: freezes during file installation. Windows 95 (i even tried that) won't even start up. Sometimes, the system won't recognize the cd rom drive. I am at wits end. Most of the diagnostics i have will only run under windows, and i can't even install it. Most of microsofts db articles don't apply or you need windows installed to complete their suggested fixes. I ran memtest86 and the memory is ok. I even swapped out the memory card so that's not the problem. I tried reinstalling the mbr but nothing there. And all the registry diagnostics i have need windows to run. I am at wits end! Help! Anyone have any idea before i commit hari-kari?
Posted On: 31-08-2004, 12:32 AM . View 6 Replies .
Computer Locking Up Minutes After Starting
I'd been having a problem with crashing to blue screen and getting the error of "irql is not less or equal to" for about a year. Now for the past 3 days my computer has started completely freezing either as soon as my desktop shows or 10-15min after startup. The only major change i've done is adding a second hard drive last weekend. But as stated, i didn't start having this problem till about 3 days ago, so i'm pretty sure it isn't the additional hard drive i added. Any help is appreciated. At this point i'm thinking that my only option is to just reformat.
Posted On: 04-29-2009, 09:21 PM . View 18 Replies .
I'd been having a problem with crashing to blue screen and getting the error of "irql is not less or equal to" for about a year. Now for the past 3 days my computer has started completely freezing either as soon as my desktop shows or 10-15min after startup. The only major change i've done is adding a second hard drive last weekend. But as stated, i didn't start having this problem till about 3 days ago, so i'm pretty sure it isn't the additional hard drive i added. Any help is appreciated. At this point i'm thinking that my only option is to just reformat.
Posted On: 04-29-2009, 09:21 PM . View 18 Replies .
Nvidia Video Card Locking Up
My video card (i believe it's a nvidia 6800, i know its nvidia at least) has been freaking out on me when i have been playing world of warcraft. It seems random so far. It's happened after 30 minutes or any time up to 3-4 hours. Anyways, when i'm playing everything locks up and my screen turns into a pixelated mess. The best way for me to describe it is that it looks like a robin's egg, one of those malted chocolate easter eggs. The colors vary from pinks, blues and grays, but its always in a pixelated pattern. And the cursor turns into a block of the same color and pattern. So far this has only happened when i have been playing wow, but i haven't played any other video games on my computer recently. I have tried reseting my card, i air dusted it out (it was pretty dusty), and i reinstalled wow. But the problem is still occurring. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this or know what might be happening?
Posted On: June 9th 2008 . View 3 Replies .
My video card (i believe it's a nvidia 6800, i know its nvidia at least) has been freaking out on me when i have been playing world of warcraft. It seems random so far. It's happened after 30 minutes or any time up to 3-4 hours. Anyways, when i'm playing everything locks up and my screen turns into a pixelated mess. The best way for me to describe it is that it looks like a robin's egg, one of those malted chocolate easter eggs. The colors vary from pinks, blues and grays, but its always in a pixelated pattern. And the cursor turns into a block of the same color and pattern. So far this has only happened when i have been playing wow, but i haven't played any other video games on my computer recently. I have tried reseting my card, i air dusted it out (it was pretty dusty), and i reinstalled wow. But the problem is still occurring. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this or know what might be happening?
Posted On: June 9th 2008 . View 3 Replies .
Usb Hard Drive Locking Software
I have a usb hard drive, that i want to protect by being only accessible if you enter a passsword. Does any free drive locking software can do that?
Posted On: 12-10-2005, 01:50 PM . View 1 Replies .
I have a usb hard drive, that i want to protect by being only accessible if you enter a passsword. Does any free drive locking software can do that?
Posted On: 12-10-2005, 01:50 PM . View 1 Replies .
Software Programs For Dfs Block Level Sync And Real Time Open File Locking
We need a robust piece of software that would be able to do block-level synchronization and real time open file locking within a dfs across three separate and distinct office locations across a wan. Also, we'd prefer if the software was x64 native on a windows operating environment. Some concerns is that we don't want to run into a file limit, a file size limit, and the number of files per synchronized folder. We especially don't want any kind of wan compression scheme which would negate the benefits of block-level synchronization or a solution that would require a master-copy of the synchronized files at all times.
Posted On: 07-06-2009, 05:47 PM . View 3 Replies .
We need a robust piece of software that would be able to do block-level synchronization and real time open file locking within a dfs across three separate and distinct office locations across a wan. Also, we'd prefer if the software was x64 native on a windows operating environment. Some concerns is that we don't want to run into a file limit, a file size limit, and the number of files per synchronized folder. We especially don't want any kind of wan compression scheme which would negate the benefits of block-level synchronization or a solution that would require a master-copy of the synchronized files at all times.
Posted On: 07-06-2009, 05:47 PM . View 3 Replies .
Pc Died Upon Rebooting
I rebooted my pc ( in system specs) but it did not restart properly. It got past shutting down then went to a black screen, fans on box were still running tho. So i tried holding down the power button for 10 seconds but it still stayed on. The only way i could turn it off from then was to flick the power switch. Now my pc will not turn on at all. No lights no fans no movement at all when i try to turn it on. I have taken the psu motherboard ram and cpu out and put onto a carboard box. I tried to boot it with just those peices in and nothing happend. I then tried just the mobo, cpu and psu. Still nothing
Im compleatly lost, im assuming somthing blewup when it was rebooting, i cant smell anything bad and there dosnt seem to be any physical dmg. No leaking caps or any bad wires. Going to try a nother psu in it somtime today, have you guys got any other ideas, also speculate what might have killled it?
I had put everthing bad to stock frequencys and voltage for the last week due to it getting hotter then i would like. Cpu was hitting 65s and nb was doing 60s, 45cpu and 50nb on stock.
Posted On: 09-15-2009, 02:44 AM . View 6 Replies .
I rebooted my pc ( in system specs) but it did not restart properly. It got past shutting down then went to a black screen, fans on box were still running tho. So i tried holding down the power button for 10 seconds but it still stayed on. The only way i could turn it off from then was to flick the power switch. Now my pc will not turn on at all. No lights no fans no movement at all when i try to turn it on. I have taken the psu motherboard ram and cpu out and put onto a carboard box. I tried to boot it with just those peices in and nothing happend. I then tried just the mobo, cpu and psu. Still nothing
Im compleatly lost, im assuming somthing blewup when it was rebooting, i cant smell anything bad and there dosnt seem to be any physical dmg. No leaking caps or any bad wires. Going to try a nother psu in it somtime today, have you guys got any other ideas, also speculate what might have killled it?
I had put everthing bad to stock frequencys and voltage for the last week due to it getting hotter then i would like. Cpu was hitting 65s and nb was doing 60s, 45cpu and 50nb on stock.
Posted On: 09-15-2009, 02:44 AM . View 6 Replies .
Rebooting Issues
So i just did a fairly complete rebuild on my system. Went from an amd rig to an intel rig, added another velociraptor to run raid 0, etc. In any case, it's all together now. Here's the issue:
Whenever i restart the computer (except for when it restarts after exiting the bios), in order to get it to post again, i have to run through the whole "power the system on and off 3 times" deal. No exceptions, even with every bios setting at default. Any thoughts?
Posted On: 07-02-2009, 01:51 AM . View 4 Replies .
So i just did a fairly complete rebuild on my system. Went from an amd rig to an intel rig, added another velociraptor to run raid 0, etc. In any case, it's all together now. Here's the issue:
Whenever i restart the computer (except for when it restarts after exiting the bios), in order to get it to post again, i have to run through the whole "power the system on and off 3 times" deal. No exceptions, even with every bios setting at default. Any thoughts?
Posted On: 07-02-2009, 01:51 AM . View 4 Replies .
Continuously Rebooting
I built the first computer i've ever built a week ago and for the most part everything was working fine. Now though, it keeps rebooting continuously. It doesn't throw any software errors, it never gets to the bios, it just sits at the screen for my mobo and then restarts. I checked my hardware with some programs when i first built it and they detected all of my ram, so i don't think it could be seated incorrectly (could it?), And the temperature for all of my parts never really got above 55c. My first thought was that my psu, which is a 550 watt bfg, didn't have enough power. http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=n82e16817702012
My video card is a evga 260 gtx superclocked edition which says it should have a minimum of 500 watts. I also have an intel e8500 3. 16ghz processor. Does my psu have enough power for both of those? Or could it be something else?
Posted On: 08-28-2009, 07:14 AM . View 6 Replies .
I built the first computer i've ever built a week ago and for the most part everything was working fine. Now though, it keeps rebooting continuously. It doesn't throw any software errors, it never gets to the bios, it just sits at the screen for my mobo and then restarts. I checked my hardware with some programs when i first built it and they detected all of my ram, so i don't think it could be seated incorrectly (could it?), And the temperature for all of my parts never really got above 55c. My first thought was that my psu, which is a 550 watt bfg, didn't have enough power. http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=n82e16817702012
My video card is a evga 260 gtx superclocked edition which says it should have a minimum of 500 watts. I also have an intel e8500 3. 16ghz processor. Does my psu have enough power for both of those? Or could it be something else?
Posted On: 08-28-2009, 07:14 AM . View 6 Replies .
I7 Random Rebooting
I just purchased a new desktop computer with some pretty good parts. Ive been getting some random reboot since tonight, happened 3 times in one hour. I didn't installed anything or add hardware since i got it 3 days ago. Any ideas? What step should i follow to find what is wrong?
Posted On: 03-30-2009, 08:00 PM . View 13 Replies .
I just purchased a new desktop computer with some pretty good parts. Ive been getting some random reboot since tonight, happened 3 times in one hour. I didn't installed anything or add hardware since i got it 3 days ago. Any ideas? What step should i follow to find what is wrong?
Posted On: 03-30-2009, 08:00 PM . View 13 Replies .
Pc Keeps Rebooting To Post
My sister started having problems with her pc last week. I haven't really looked at it yet but would like some suggestions on where to start. The computer boots up and goes through the post and i get to the boot options menu- "safe mode", "start windows normally", etc. The problem is, no matter which option i choose, it reboots and does the exact same thing- post and then boot menu. Any ideas on what the problem might be?
Posted On: 02-19-2010, 12:58 PM . View 13 Replies .
My sister started having problems with her pc last week. I haven't really looked at it yet but would like some suggestions on where to start. The computer boots up and goes through the post and i get to the boot options menu- "safe mode", "start windows normally", etc. The problem is, no matter which option i choose, it reboots and does the exact same thing- post and then boot menu. Any ideas on what the problem might be?
Posted On: 02-19-2010, 12:58 PM . View 13 Replies .
Computer Rebooting Without Warning
I'm a technician in a small computer refurbishment shop, and ive been having a very weird problem with one of the computers. The computer itself looks like the case was bought brand new and the rest was put together from spare parts from old computers, so it might be something damaged hardware wise but ive ran numerous tests and i can not find any real reason for it to be shutting down when ever it feels like it. If you have any ideas as to why this is happening please post.
Posted On: April 2nd, 2007, 05:29 PM . View 8 Replies .
I'm a technician in a small computer refurbishment shop, and ive been having a very weird problem with one of the computers. The computer itself looks like the case was bought brand new and the rest was put together from spare parts from old computers, so it might be something damaged hardware wise but ive ran numerous tests and i can not find any real reason for it to be shutting down when ever it feels like it. If you have any ideas as to why this is happening please post.
Posted On: April 2nd, 2007, 05:29 PM . View 8 Replies .
My System Just Keeps Rebooting - Win Xp
Only way i got it to stop rebooting was to put win xp disk in and booted to it. Got it to boot to desktop after running chkdsk. Can't get the start to come up on desk top. The icons come up but no start comes up in lower left hand corner of screen. Got a ox800106ba code as the problem that came up. Can anyone help me?
Posted On: October 10th, 2007, 01:01 AM . View 5 Replies .
Only way i got it to stop rebooting was to put win xp disk in and booted to it. Got it to boot to desktop after running chkdsk. Can't get the start to come up on desk top. The icons come up but no start comes up in lower left hand corner of screen. Got a ox800106ba code as the problem that came up. Can anyone help me?
Posted On: October 10th, 2007, 01:01 AM . View 5 Replies .
Rebooting During Raid Expansion
I've been trolling through the forums and the internet in general for a bit now and i still can't find an answer to this so here goes. I have a adaptec 3805 with a 6 disk raid5 array, and have recently upgraded the drives attached to it from 500gb's to 1tb's. I've been in the process of expanding the array to fill the newly available space and my computer has locked up about half way through. I say locked up because it hasn't blue screened and while it is unresponsive the led indicators on the card still look like is going flat tack. What i want to know is if i can reboot the computer safely, or if i should wait out the remaining time and about 5 days at this point and reboot when the lights stop flashing. Any help is greatly appreciated at this point.
Posted On: 03-21-2009, 08:11 PM . View 17 Replies .
I've been trolling through the forums and the internet in general for a bit now and i still can't find an answer to this so here goes. I have a adaptec 3805 with a 6 disk raid5 array, and have recently upgraded the drives attached to it from 500gb's to 1tb's. I've been in the process of expanding the array to fill the newly available space and my computer has locked up about half way through. I say locked up because it hasn't blue screened and while it is unresponsive the led indicators on the card still look like is going flat tack. What i want to know is if i can reboot the computer safely, or if i should wait out the remaining time and about 5 days at this point and reboot when the lights stop flashing. Any help is greatly appreciated at this point.
Posted On: 03-21-2009, 08:11 PM . View 17 Replies .
Faulty Hardware ? Just Built Computer Keeps Rebooting
Ok, so my fiance and i are attempting to build me a new computer to replace my older laptop (we have both built computers before, and he used to work for a computer repair shop, so we thought we knew what we were doing). Anyway, now it keeps rebooting within <1 sec to about 60ish seconds from boot- usually it's less than 5 seconds. We started out with just the mobo, ram, video card, and processor plugged in and attempted to boot - worked beautifully (seemingly). Tried same with floppy drive w/ win98 boot disk, again, seemingly beautiful, and booted right up to the disk. Then attempted to add hdd and dvd drive, and it started doing this rebooting thing. We've since tried taking everything off the mobo but the ram and processor, and it still does the same thing. We've reseated the ram, tried it in the other slot, checked the conections, checked the jumper settings. Still no help. It does seem to stay up longer on the first boot if we have left it alone for several hours, but it will still eventually reboot. Also, the first time we plugged in the usb drive it booted directly from that with no prompting, now it hardly even recognizes the disk as valid, if it does get that far in the boot process (but it does sometimes, so i don't think the disk is bad). We've considered updating the bios (there was something on intel's website about it being 'essential' that you update the bios if you have a p4 800fsb, but it didn't say why) but we fear that even if it did eventually boot to the disk, it would crash in the middle of flashing, thus making the mobo trash. Please, somebody - if you have any idea what we can do from here, let me know! I ordered these parts from a company across the country (newegg.com) and only have about 3 weeks in which i can exchange them, if i figure out which one really has the problem. I don't have any spare parts to work with, so i can't really swap out things to test that way, and i don't have the money to just buy new parts for testing purposes (except for possibly the power supply - i'm already buying this on a loan from my mom). If you have any clue what is going on, or know where we can go for help. I know newegg doesn't do any kind of tech support, and asrock only does tech support to buyers, not to individual consumers.
Posted On: July 16th, 2004, 04:40 PM . View 14 Replies .
Ok, so my fiance and i are attempting to build me a new computer to replace my older laptop (we have both built computers before, and he used to work for a computer repair shop, so we thought we knew what we were doing). Anyway, now it keeps rebooting within <1 sec to about 60ish seconds from boot- usually it's less than 5 seconds. We started out with just the mobo, ram, video card, and processor plugged in and attempted to boot - worked beautifully (seemingly). Tried same with floppy drive w/ win98 boot disk, again, seemingly beautiful, and booted right up to the disk. Then attempted to add hdd and dvd drive, and it started doing this rebooting thing. We've since tried taking everything off the mobo but the ram and processor, and it still does the same thing. We've reseated the ram, tried it in the other slot, checked the conections, checked the jumper settings. Still no help. It does seem to stay up longer on the first boot if we have left it alone for several hours, but it will still eventually reboot. Also, the first time we plugged in the usb drive it booted directly from that with no prompting, now it hardly even recognizes the disk as valid, if it does get that far in the boot process (but it does sometimes, so i don't think the disk is bad). We've considered updating the bios (there was something on intel's website about it being 'essential' that you update the bios if you have a p4 800fsb, but it didn't say why) but we fear that even if it did eventually boot to the disk, it would crash in the middle of flashing, thus making the mobo trash. Please, somebody - if you have any idea what we can do from here, let me know! I ordered these parts from a company across the country (newegg.com) and only have about 3 weeks in which i can exchange them, if i figure out which one really has the problem. I don't have any spare parts to work with, so i can't really swap out things to test that way, and i don't have the money to just buy new parts for testing purposes (except for possibly the power supply - i'm already buying this on a loan from my mom). If you have any clue what is going on, or know where we can go for help. I know newegg doesn't do any kind of tech support, and asrock only does tech support to buyers, not to individual consumers.
Posted On: July 16th, 2004, 04:40 PM . View 14 Replies .
Random Shut Down, Freezing And Rebooting Before Windows?
When i first built it, i installed xp sp3 and noticed that once or twice it would post at start up, go to load windows (black screen before the little loading bar) and then crash with the monitor indicating no signal before it rebooted again, before loading windows normally. Being only my second build i ignored this problem
Anyway, it didn't happen much, maybe once a week, so i replaced the 450w coolermaster with a 620w corsair. Problem still happened once a week. I ran memtest, but it picked up nothing. I swapped ram slots, problem still happens. I swap gpu to current 4670. I swap ram to ocz 1066, no change. Now the problem has gotten worse. It takes numerous attempts at start up to load up to windows and stay there, and even then it will crash 3-4 times a day. At load up now it typically cycles through the post screen a few times before making it to windows log in, where upon it will freeze and need to be restarted. This will normally happen 1 or twice before it stays running. When it crashes during th day it seems to reboot back into windows first go, without all the hanging and freezing. My windows error screens when it does load up say that the computer has recovered from a blue screen event but that the error logs are corrupted and cannot be read, also telling me that this is rare and indicitive of serious problems. What's left that could be the problem?
I have a gigabyte ep45 mb and was going to connect up the hd and try and load it up on the system in my sig just rule out any software cause. Is my ep45 similar enough that it will boot and run the hd from the ep43?
Is it probably my mobo? Have i ruled enough stuff out to put in an rma on the mobo?
Ok, swapped out the hd from the ep43 board and run it on another system. It booted fine and went into windows (of course windows now wants to be reactivated). So i guess i've ruled out software prob (and hd). So it's down to the last two hardware pieces, cpu and mb.
Posted On: 07-03-2009, 09:20 AM . View 6 Replies .
When i first built it, i installed xp sp3 and noticed that once or twice it would post at start up, go to load windows (black screen before the little loading bar) and then crash with the monitor indicating no signal before it rebooted again, before loading windows normally. Being only my second build i ignored this problem
Anyway, it didn't happen much, maybe once a week, so i replaced the 450w coolermaster with a 620w corsair. Problem still happened once a week. I ran memtest, but it picked up nothing. I swapped ram slots, problem still happens. I swap gpu to current 4670. I swap ram to ocz 1066, no change. Now the problem has gotten worse. It takes numerous attempts at start up to load up to windows and stay there, and even then it will crash 3-4 times a day. At load up now it typically cycles through the post screen a few times before making it to windows log in, where upon it will freeze and need to be restarted. This will normally happen 1 or twice before it stays running. When it crashes during th day it seems to reboot back into windows first go, without all the hanging and freezing. My windows error screens when it does load up say that the computer has recovered from a blue screen event but that the error logs are corrupted and cannot be read, also telling me that this is rare and indicitive of serious problems. What's left that could be the problem?
I have a gigabyte ep45 mb and was going to connect up the hd and try and load it up on the system in my sig just rule out any software cause. Is my ep45 similar enough that it will boot and run the hd from the ep43?
Is it probably my mobo? Have i ruled enough stuff out to put in an rma on the mobo?
Ok, swapped out the hd from the ep43 board and run it on another system. It booted fine and went into windows (of course windows now wants to be reactivated). So i guess i've ruled out software prob (and hd). So it's down to the last two hardware pieces, cpu and mb.
Posted On: 07-03-2009, 09:20 AM . View 6 Replies .
Disable Sound In Device Manager Without Rebooting
Asus xonar dx (i'll never buy asus for sound again btw, terrible support experience) . Anyway, once in awhile i'll have a sound lockup ctd. No big deal but i remember i used to be able to disable/enable sound without rebooting in the device manager. After formatting/reinstalling, i can't.google did not yield me the answer. Point me in the right direction please.
Posted On: 01-31-2010, 10:31 AM . View 1 Replies .
Asus xonar dx (i'll never buy asus for sound again btw, terrible support experience) . Anyway, once in awhile i'll have a sound lockup ctd. No big deal but i remember i used to be able to disable/enable sound without rebooting in the device manager. After formatting/reinstalling, i can't.google did not yield me the answer. Point me in the right direction please.
Posted On: 01-31-2010, 10:31 AM . View 1 Replies .
Amd Gpu Clock Tool And Rebooting
Is there a way to not have to set this after every reboot? I've overclocked my card using this, and msi afterburner to up the voltage to 1. 115, msi tool can run on startup, but i dont see a way to do it with amd gpu tool.
Posted On: 02-25-2010, 02:14 PM . View 6 Replies .
Is there a way to not have to set this after every reboot? I've overclocked my card using this, and msi afterburner to up the voltage to 1. 115, msi tool can run on startup, but i dont see a way to do it with amd gpu tool.
Posted On: 02-25-2010, 02:14 PM . View 6 Replies .
Pc Rebooting - Dvd Rom Drive Issue
Basically what happens is whenever i put a cd in the dvdrom drive, once the pc starts to read it, the pc reboots. This can happen at boot up as well (if i leave a cd in there). It happened suddenly and i do not think i installed anything that would have caused this. All the fans are working as well. Not sure what is causing this. Perhaps a wire popped out? Maybe it's not getting enough power? Any ideas?
Specs:
1. 2ghz amd athlon processor, mmx, 3dnow
1024mb ram
20gb hd
Directx 9. 0c
Windows xp (home)
Nvidia geforce fx 5500
256mb
Hitachi dvd-rom gd-7500
Posted On: May 22nd 2005 . View 13 Replies .
Basically what happens is whenever i put a cd in the dvdrom drive, once the pc starts to read it, the pc reboots. This can happen at boot up as well (if i leave a cd in there). It happened suddenly and i do not think i installed anything that would have caused this. All the fans are working as well. Not sure what is causing this. Perhaps a wire popped out? Maybe it's not getting enough power? Any ideas?
Specs:
1. 2ghz amd athlon processor, mmx, 3dnow
1024mb ram
20gb hd
Directx 9. 0c
Windows xp (home)
Nvidia geforce fx 5500
256mb
Hitachi dvd-rom gd-7500
Posted On: May 22nd 2005 . View 13 Replies .
Pc Randomly Crashing
Ok, ive already narrowed down this problem to either; faulty power supply, or faulty motherboard. Originally my pc was crashing on average about every 15 mins, i thought it may be my case shorting out my board, so i ran only critical devises outside of the case. No crash, removed the mounting screw that was shorting, it began crashing every couple of hours. It only crashes a couple of times, but it now crashes every now and then. This would seem to point at the motherboard, but seing as my case isnt in the best shape, and my psu is blowing warm air out the back, and contaisn more dust than you can shake a stick at. Well, that just introduces a 2nd party to the problem!
Can somebody point me in the right direction of furthur system testing, or some motherboard diagnostic tools?
Posted On: November 3rd, 2004, 08:05 AM . View 8 Replies .
Ok, ive already narrowed down this problem to either; faulty power supply, or faulty motherboard. Originally my pc was crashing on average about every 15 mins, i thought it may be my case shorting out my board, so i ran only critical devises outside of the case. No crash, removed the mounting screw that was shorting, it began crashing every couple of hours. It only crashes a couple of times, but it now crashes every now and then. This would seem to point at the motherboard, but seing as my case isnt in the best shape, and my psu is blowing warm air out the back, and contaisn more dust than you can shake a stick at. Well, that just introduces a 2nd party to the problem!
Can somebody point me in the right direction of furthur system testing, or some motherboard diagnostic tools?
Posted On: November 3rd, 2004, 08:05 AM . View 8 Replies .
Pc Restarting Randomly
I have had several pc's (which was self assembled) which restarts at randomly. It is mostly for office use, so i doubt that it has something to do with overheating.could it be something i do wrong while assembling it? Or could it be just faulty ram something like that?
Posted On: 13-07-2007, 12:38 PM . View 8 Replies .
I have had several pc's (which was self assembled) which restarts at randomly. It is mostly for office use, so i doubt that it has something to do with overheating.could it be something i do wrong while assembling it? Or could it be just faulty ram something like that?
Posted On: 13-07-2007, 12:38 PM . View 8 Replies .
Randomly Freezes
So, for a while i've had this problem with my pc. It randomly freezes. (Used to randomly restart, but i turned that option off so i could see when it was doing). To date i have switched out the graphics card out for my old one, and the problem persisted, tried all sorts of combinations of my 3 hdds, and the problem persisted, same with the ram, and the problem persisted. First thing i did was do several trials of not using certain pieces of software. None of them seemed to cause the problem. I did a complete reinstall of windows, and the problem persists. Please, i am begging anyone to tell me how to fix it. What is wrong? Is it possible for it to be the cpu/mobo? I assumed it wouldn't start up if they were faulty. Edit: could it be an underpowered psu? A thought struck me, and i googled "underpowered psu symptoms" and found my symptoms. Mind you, there are the same symptoms with my old 250w, and my borrowed 300w. You know, with the same sort of regularity, etc. What's the verdict?
Posted On: July 20th 2008 . View 14 Replies .
So, for a while i've had this problem with my pc. It randomly freezes. (Used to randomly restart, but i turned that option off so i could see when it was doing). To date i have switched out the graphics card out for my old one, and the problem persisted, tried all sorts of combinations of my 3 hdds, and the problem persisted, same with the ram, and the problem persisted. First thing i did was do several trials of not using certain pieces of software. None of them seemed to cause the problem. I did a complete reinstall of windows, and the problem persists. Please, i am begging anyone to tell me how to fix it. What is wrong? Is it possible for it to be the cpu/mobo? I assumed it wouldn't start up if they were faulty. Edit: could it be an underpowered psu? A thought struck me, and i googled "underpowered psu symptoms" and found my symptoms. Mind you, there are the same symptoms with my old 250w, and my borrowed 300w. You know, with the same sort of regularity, etc. What's the verdict?
Posted On: July 20th 2008 . View 14 Replies .
Computer Randomly Shut Off
Certain actions cause my computer to completely shutdown. Occasionaly going to a blue screen and sometimes not. The actions that cause this include playing certain video games, watching videos, and other actions. Regular web surfing does not cause a shutdown. Somebody mentioned to me that i could have fried my r. A. M or something. I really have no idea. My computer is a p4 with at least 256 ram maybe 512.
Posted On: 06-09-2005, 12:00 AM . View 1 Replies .
Certain actions cause my computer to completely shutdown. Occasionaly going to a blue screen and sometimes not. The actions that cause this include playing certain video games, watching videos, and other actions. Regular web surfing does not cause a shutdown. Somebody mentioned to me that i could have fried my r. A. M or something. I really have no idea. My computer is a p4 with at least 256 ram maybe 512.
Posted On: 06-09-2005, 12:00 AM . View 1 Replies .
Computer Going Into Stand By Randomly
I recently removed the old 20gb hard drive i was using and replaced it with an 80gb drive. Installed xp, my drivers, games, etc. Without any problem (also installed sp2, which i didn't have before). But then my computer started going into stand by (or it might be hibernation, it doesn't actually say) mode at random times, even when i'm using my computer. Of course first i checked the power options to make sure it wasn't set to go off. Then i checked the bios, and reinstalled my mobo and video card drivers. But none of that solved anything. My next thought was it could be the power supply, but i don't know how to check if the ps is going bad. Any suggestions on what else i could check to solve this.
Posted On: 06-07-2005, 10:47 PM . View 3 Replies .
I recently removed the old 20gb hard drive i was using and replaced it with an 80gb drive. Installed xp, my drivers, games, etc. Without any problem (also installed sp2, which i didn't have before). But then my computer started going into stand by (or it might be hibernation, it doesn't actually say) mode at random times, even when i'm using my computer. Of course first i checked the power options to make sure it wasn't set to go off. Then i checked the bios, and reinstalled my mobo and video card drivers. But none of that solved anything. My next thought was it could be the power supply, but i don't know how to check if the ps is going bad. Any suggestions on what else i could check to solve this.
Posted On: 06-07-2005, 10:47 PM . View 3 Replies .
Computer Shutdown Randomly
I built my computer a few years ago and have had no problems (p4). Today it decided to shutdown randomly. I tried rebooting but it would turn on like it was going to start but bios would not post and it would shut down after about 5 seconds. My first inclination was that it was a failing power supply. Replaced that without any luck. The odd thing is that when i plug in both power components from the ps to the mobo it turns on and after five seconds turns off;
Yet, when i do not have the 12v 4pin plugged in, the computer stays running, although it does not load windows. I checked the ram, light on mobo is on, nothing smells fried, i'm hoping it is not the mobo.
Posted On: October 11th, 2006, 12:22 AM . View 5 Replies .
I built my computer a few years ago and have had no problems (p4). Today it decided to shutdown randomly. I tried rebooting but it would turn on like it was going to start but bios would not post and it would shut down after about 5 seconds. My first inclination was that it was a failing power supply. Replaced that without any luck. The odd thing is that when i plug in both power components from the ps to the mobo it turns on and after five seconds turns off;
Yet, when i do not have the 12v 4pin plugged in, the computer stays running, although it does not load windows. I checked the ram, light on mobo is on, nothing smells fried, i'm hoping it is not the mobo.
Posted On: October 11th, 2006, 12:22 AM . View 5 Replies .
Monitor Will Randomly Go Black
The problem that is occurring is when i play wow, my monitor will randomly go black, but my computer stay on. All of the sound and background apps such as ventrilo will cease, and i am forced to restart my computer via the restart switch. This started occurring a few months ago, but it went away. Unfortunately it is back again. I've already restarted my computer about 6 times in the past hour, and have tried a lot of things including resetting the cmos, re-seating both my ram and video card, even changing some bios settings, all of which didn't do anything. I haven't tried any other games then wow, but i'll start up bf2142 or cs:s and see if it does it. I'm not certain as to what would be causing this "black screen" to occur. Maybe it could be the power supply? Ram? I've already determined it's not the video card, as i put my old 6800 in, and it still occurred. What's weird is that i just got burning crusade, and i played it all last weekend from friday - sunday with no problems.
Posted On: 01-22-2007, 04:24 PM . View 12 Replies .
The problem that is occurring is when i play wow, my monitor will randomly go black, but my computer stay on. All of the sound and background apps such as ventrilo will cease, and i am forced to restart my computer via the restart switch. This started occurring a few months ago, but it went away. Unfortunately it is back again. I've already restarted my computer about 6 times in the past hour, and have tried a lot of things including resetting the cmos, re-seating both my ram and video card, even changing some bios settings, all of which didn't do anything. I haven't tried any other games then wow, but i'll start up bf2142 or cs:s and see if it does it. I'm not certain as to what would be causing this "black screen" to occur. Maybe it could be the power supply? Ram? I've already determined it's not the video card, as i put my old 6800 in, and it still occurred. What's weird is that i just got burning crusade, and i played it all last weekend from friday - sunday with no problems.
Posted On: 01-22-2007, 04:24 PM . View 12 Replies .
Computer Randomly Turns On
My comp is possesed. (You would know if you have seen some of the other problems i have with this comp too)
So my computer more or less randomly turns on during the day or night. Sometimes when i get home from school it is on (nobody uses it, and the screen is like it should be when it first turns on)
Sometimes when i wake up in the morning it is on. The only partial logical explination i came up with is that sometimes when i turn stuff on such as my bedside lamp it will turn on. Im thinking this has somthing to do with. I dunno. A small surg of power going into the comp when turning the lamp off making the comp turn on. Only problem with that is that my comp is plugged into a battery. Also somtimes it will randomly turn on when i walk by it. Is my computer possesed?
Posted On: May 7th, 2005, 12:05 PM . View 9 Replies .
My comp is possesed. (You would know if you have seen some of the other problems i have with this comp too)
So my computer more or less randomly turns on during the day or night. Sometimes when i get home from school it is on (nobody uses it, and the screen is like it should be when it first turns on)
Sometimes when i wake up in the morning it is on. The only partial logical explination i came up with is that sometimes when i turn stuff on such as my bedside lamp it will turn on. Im thinking this has somthing to do with. I dunno. A small surg of power going into the comp when turning the lamp off making the comp turn on. Only problem with that is that my comp is plugged into a battery. Also somtimes it will randomly turn on when i walk by it. Is my computer possesed?
Posted On: May 7th, 2005, 12:05 PM . View 9 Replies .
System Randomly Reboots Itself
System randomly reboots itself. Have replaced almost every part aside from vid card. Doubt vid card is the problem, works fine on another system.
Posted On: December 1st, 2003, 08:51 PM . View 14 Replies .
System randomly reboots itself. Have replaced almost every part aside from vid card. Doubt vid card is the problem, works fine on another system.
Posted On: December 1st, 2003, 08:51 PM . View 14 Replies .