Computer reboot itself

[sparrow18]

Hi guys, probably you guys have seen these sort of questions many times in different format and stuff, but I'm running out of ideas already......so please help......

The computer is using Win XP, and sometimes instead of reset itself, it pops out this following blue screen (rarely winXP shows blue screen)


IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

STOP : 0x000000000A (0x000000000, 0x000000002, 0x000000000, 0x804EA808)

IF THIS HAPPENED THE FIRST TIME, RESET THE COMPUTER, IF IT HAPPENED MORE THAN ONCE, TRY UNINSTALL ANY NEW PROGRAM OR HARDWARE OR DISABLE BIOS MEMORY EITHER BY TURNING OFF THE CACHING OR SHADOWING


The above words in bold were something more or less described by the blue screen message. And I have tried :
1) removing the sound card, modem, network card
2) tried all RAM slot and all formations
3) disabled the bios caching and shadowing stuff

All to no avail, i really hope a miracle could come and reply the problem......and if this info helps, I'm using a P3-933 on a MSI694X motherboard. The rebooting interval between starting up and resetting is around 2 seconds until 7 minutes top.

Wish me luck.

 

[LiLithTecH]

1. Do you have any USB devices connected?
2. Do you have any AntiVirus software installed? If so, which Company and version.
3. Have you checked the Event Viewer and Application log to see if there
is any leads to what in particular is causing the error?

 

[mroleg]

i had the same problem on my asus mobo. it got resolved when i realised that in bios my primary video was set to PCI instead of AGP.

 

[Ape]

I had that problem using a generic brand DIMM that wasn't compatible with my MB. Ape Out.

 

[dmk11]

Did you recently install new hardware? drives, cards, anything?

I got that error when I install new HW that requires an IRQ.. Basically the system runs out of IRQ. The way I fix it is to go to the BIOS and disable anything that you're not using. ex: parallel port, serial port, etc. This will free up some IRQ and give it to your new device.

 

[sparrow18]

Guys, the problem seem to dissapear after I formatted the whole hard disk.......repartitioned, format and reinstall. I always hate these kind of problems, I never know what caused the computer to reset itself.... but anyway, thanx for all your feedback, at least I know what to look at when troubled time comes again.......