thanks so much, got it. now if only i could figure out why my system reboots and reboots and reboots. if anyone is bored at work and hasnt been to the troubleshooting forum, here's a cut & paste of my prob... do you think its worth running Memtest?
starting Sunday night, my PC has flipped out and keeps rebooting and rebooting. here are the specs, its a self built:
P4 2.53 w/Alpha HS
Asus P4PE MB
512 Corsair XMS 3000 RAM
WD 80 GIG HD
WD 40 GIG HD
Hercules Radeon 9700
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Antec True Power 480 W PS
5 panaflo/sunon case fans (so good cooling)
Running Win XP
and for whats its with a USB Hub and wireless Logitech Mouse and Keyboard
i did not receive an error, no bluescreen, just reboot. sometimes it would reboot during the reboot. sometimes it actually lets me log on and then will reboot within a few minutes while messing around on the net. it seems like it would only reboot when i would click on things - whether it was a new page in some forums trying to find a fix or a different option in ASUS probe or My Computer. i checked my temps in the bios, they seem fine. also checked them in ASUS probe before i crashed and seemed fine. i swapped out my PS and threw in a crappy EVER 300 W i had sitting around, immediately had the same rebooting prob before i couldn't even load windows.
i just tried hooking up my PC to a different PC area in the house that had a different outlet, surge protector and peripherals. no luck, same rebooting prob.
the only bit of info i received so far was an error message within windows that said the processor has detected a fatal error do you want to send report. i was finally able to go into system viewer and get these error messages as well: "Error Code 00000009C, parameter 1 00000000, parameter 2 8053f0f0, parameter 3 ccooooff, parameter 4 20040189." i also had a few "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on volume C" as well as "A hardware failure reported by your CPU. This behavior occurs because your computer processor detected an unrecoverable hardware error and reported it to windows."
for some final info, i was overclocking slightly, very little to keep it rock stable, and the comp is only a few months old. of course i reset everything in the bios after the first few crashes/reboots and am running (err trying to run) at stock speed, same probs.
on monday night, i removed the HS and re-sat the p4 chip. applied some more arctic silver, put the heatsink back on. no luck same probs.
i also tried swapping in a 256 crucial RAM module i had in my other PC at home. no luck. reboot.
i ran a chkdsk on C this morning as this was recommended by windows in response to one of the above error messages, no luck immediately crashed to reboot. however, i was able to run the full chkdsk, reboot happened after i got into windows.
im at wits end here. all i can think of is that its my MB or my P4 processor.
Facebook
Twitter