Fault Buckets, Internet Explorer Crashes, Random Reboots and a mad cow

[Littlehomer]

I run this configuration,
Abit KT7A Raid
768 MB memory
Athlon 1.2
Leadtek Winfast Geforce 2 Ti (has voltage problems with mobo but its modded to fix the problem)
SB Audigy
30Gb Quantum Disk
Windows XP Professional

I am constantly getting random reboots on my system. I can be sat doing anything and my system will reboot itself without even enough time to display the blue screen of death that flashes up for less than a second. My event log normally comes up clean as though nothing happened but it sometimes said i had a fault bucket followed by a number, or my computer rebooted from a bugcheck and a save dump was placed in blaa blaa etc etc. Internet explorer can hang on other occasions or my system becomes unresponsive for about 30 seconds then it reboots. Does anyone have any clue how to solve this riddle. I have the latest drivers for everything and dropping my memory clock and putting on the pci latency patch for via chipsets seemed to improve things. But i have had upteen installs of xp and this is the first to do this to me. Please help. Im desperate.

Thanks. Daniel

 

[2cool4u]

holy crap, i was just about to post teh same thread!!! this has been happening for like 3 days now i have NO idea why. I've TRIED to run norton 2002 but it reboots. Had a nimbda but got rid of it. I'll be doing nothing and *flick* there goes the screen and a reboot. I'm not getting the BSOD but i am just rebooting at random. Running XP with ALL the latest drivers, i check like every week. seems to crash alot when i'm on the internet...i don't wnat to format but i don't much care either way.

System Specs

MSI K7T
Thunderbird 1ghz
640 megs pc133
TNT 2
20 gig Maxtor
Win XP Pro, latest drivers


HELP PLEASE!!!

 

[RustyNale]

Check to see if the "automatically restart" button in your setup and recovery section is checked--if it is, uncheck it. Then, when you have a problem, just check the log to see what it was...

 

[KB]

Go to "System Properties", "Advanced" tab, "Startup and Recovery" and uncheck the automatically reboot checkbox.
Then post the blue screen message. Random BSOD are often memory or Driver issues. Since you are up-to-date in drivers, try to remove all of your unneeded hardware, and all but one of your sticks of RAM and see how it goes. Then add devices one by one and see which one crashes the machine.

 

[2cool4u]

Good idea KB, that's what i did last time, i uninstalled all programs i didn't use and did the memory thing. I didn't know about de-selecting teh auto-reboot option. I'll see if its' checked next time i'm at my girlfriend's. Thanks

 

[Damascus]

What heatsink/fan and power supply do you use? I know you said it worked before,
but maybe your fan or power supply is dying...

 

[Littlehomer]

Thanks for the Suggestions Guys ill do anything i have to at the moment. Perhaps now i can read the BSOD and figure out whats going on.

 

[Littlehomer]

As usual, with a little research i managed to find a solution. the BSOD was saying IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. It was my black ice software. Theres a patch that fixes the problem by updating it to version CAQ. Q being important. I was running CAN. Apparently the error can be caused by overheating, network cards and scsi card in particular.

 

[stockjock]

I've been getting the same problems...but my restarts are due to memory dumps! What the heck are memory dumps? I've put a new PSU and changed the ram out...my restarts are less frequent now...but they still happen.....

 

[2cool4u]

black ice messed up mine too last time, it was teh culprit...doesn't like XP. But i'm not using that now...still searching