Maybe a little problem... Unknown Restarts!

FrozenAthlon

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Just put together about a week ago, a dual athlon MP 2000+ rig based on the tyan tiper MPX board.

I have only experienced one problem with this... sudden restarts. Both times this happened I was surfing this website... what could a possible solution be ?

Thanks alot everyone for any advice you can give.

Frozen

 

QTPie

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could be your memory or power supply unit.
Make sure you install lastest BIOS and chipset's driver.
 
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What kind/wattage power supply do you have? For a dual Athlon MP 2000+ setup, it better be a good one or you'll have problems just like what you've got.
 

DeathByDuke

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Damn that used to happen to me on Unreal Tourney with a TNT2 - the symptom was a extreme crash in framerate for no reason then Tourney shut down along with PC - no BSOD or errors - just a reboot like normal, scared the hell outta me every time - soon got a GF2MX in two weeks (thats how old that TNT2 woz, as it came with the system, which is same age at the time) i only had that problem with the TNT2 - i think the drivers were 6.xx not sure.
 

FrozenAthlon

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sounds like my issue... I have G4ti4600... When my machine restarts there isn't a BSOD or error message. I just wonder if this is a video driver problem. I'm using the latest available from nvidia.

Thanks for info duke.

Dan
 

McCarthy

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I get the same thing if I try to play a DIVX full screen with my GF2. Goofy damn thing, guess it's the video drivers then?
 

geezman

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You didn't say what OS you are using. A "feature" of Windows XP is to just reboot when you get a blue screen. Obviously this appears as a spontaneous reboot. When Windows XP boots back up it will give you a message saying that it experienced a serious error (or something like that). I know there is a way to disable this "feature", I just can't remeber how. If this is the case, it's most likely an application error or a conflict of some sort.

This may have no relevance for you, just ignore it then!:D
 

zsouthboy

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<< You didn't say what OS you are using. A "feature" of Windows XP is to just reboot when you get a blue screen. Obviously this appears as a spontaneous reboot. When Windows XP boots back up it will give you a message saying that it experienced a serious error (or something like that). I know there is a way to disable this "feature", I just can't remeber how. If this is the case, it's most likely an application error or a conflict of some sort.

This may have no relevance for you, just ignore it then!:D
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Right click on My Computer--->Advanced tab--->Startup and recovery--->Uncheck "Automatically Reboot" under the "System Failure" part.

zs

EDIT: This "feature" is in all the NT OSes. BTW

EDIT 2: Forgot to answer the question. I used to have the same problem with my Radeon, random reboots during UT. I upgraded drivers (www.omegacorner.com) and no more random reboots(heh, at least from my vid card, heh heh ;))
 

FrozenAthlon

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everyone thanks again for your input... I will disable the auto restart and lets see if I can diagnose my BSOD... I haven't had a restart in a few days, im guessing it shouldn't be a very serious issue I should worry myself over.
 

FrozenAthlon

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update! i experienced my first BSOD since turning off the automatic restart feature:

first part was BS about making sure you have enough free space on the hard drive and make sure you have the latest mobo bios and turn off BIOS shadow... etc....

then a long string of numbers.... followed by this....

Beginning Dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
 

FrozenAthlon

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ok.... sorry for the previous hogwash. I did some research on memory dumps @ www.technet.com and I found out that each time the PC crashes, a .dmp (memory dump file) is written. My debugging info settings under system --> Advanced --> Startup and Recovery are as follows... Small Memory dump (64kb), saved in the minidump directory. I did a directory seach and found the 3 files: mini043002-01.dmp, mini050202-01.dmp, mini050902-01.dmp! Does anyone know how to view these files so I can hopefully futher diagnose my problem. Everything is making more sense to me..... but slowly.
 

kmike75

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If this happens when you are on the web, try moving your modem to a different pci slot.
 

Fike

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I have had this same problem. The cause was a single bad RAM stick. I removed the stick, and the system is rock solid.