BSOD and random restarts

neoweapon

Junior Member
Mar 31, 2007
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Hi all!
It has been almost a year I had this computer from hell. Here are my specs:

430W Thermaltake PSU
ECS p4m800-pro v 1.0A VIA chipset
6600GT eVGA AGP video card 128MB
Audigy 2 5.1 sound card
litescribe dvd-rw
sony cd-rw
(1 stick) 512MB DDR 3200 kingston valueram
pentium D 775 dual core processor 1.6ghz
320gb seagate SATA

This computer would randomly crash anytime it wants and it seems like it does not depend on how much load it is encountering. It would crash during games like FEAR, Supreme Commander and it would even crash when I'm just browsing the net with firefox.

-I ran the memtest and the ram is good.
-I ran seatools to see if my harddrive is bad but that was good.
-I took out the 6600gt video card and used the onboard graphics and the computer still gave me a BSOD
-i used another HD with vista installed and still got a random reboot.
-I really don't know what the problem is since random crashes are generally linked to faulty ram.
-the temperatures (processor speeds) are fine ranging from 28C idle to 38C running games


i'm starting to suspect the ECS VIA chipset motherboard
I 've been trying to get some help from online forums for a few months and none of them have found a solution. I hope anandtech would change that.
Any thoughts? Thanks
 

sisq0kidd

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Apr 27, 2004
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I think at this point, all signs point to a faulty motherboard.

Next time the BSOD pops up, try to see if you can catch what kind of error it is.
 

dclive

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Oct 23, 2003
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Send me an e-mail with the zipped contents of the minidumps directory from c:\windows\minidumps.
Run MPSReports_Setup_Perf (get it from Microsoft) and send me the resulting .cab file.
See my .sig for e-mail info.

 

MTDEW

Diamond Member
Oct 31, 1999
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Ok, click start / run and in the runbox type eventvwr

By clicking on system and application on the left in the event viewer window, you can see when errors occurred in the right pane of the window.

Now you'll have to determine which errors coincide with your BSOD's.
Then right click on the error and select properties.
You'll get a description of the error and the event id number associated with the error.

Once you figured what error is associated with your BSOD, post here and we'll try to track down whats causing all the trouble.

Or do a google search for the errors Event ID number.