Please help, Windows 2000 reboot problem.

[Grminalac]

Hello,
I have been having a problem lately with Windows 2000, for some odd reason the system decided to reboot. I'll be watching a DVD and the screen goes black and the system restarts. It happened 2 times for me previously (over the last 3 weeks) and now just a few minutes ago during an install of Mechwarrior 3. (which works fine sans the ability to uninstall it) after it rebooted. I have no idea what could possible cause this problem, my system seems to be working well except for this. I installed the service pack, but it did not seem to help. I also do not get any error message, just a reboot. i had previously ran Windows 98SE for some time as well as Windows Me and never got random reboots.
My specs.
PIII 550 @ 733 (happened unoverclocked as well)
Gigabyte Ga-6VX-4X Apollo Pro 133A chipset.
128 megs of ram. (the ram is set to CAS2, i believe the default setting is cas3 but I have had no trouble. i have it set to CAS3 now to see if i get another reboot.)
CDRW and DVD drive
Hollywood plus decoder card.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

Anyone else experiencing sudden reboot in Win2000?

The sudden reboot occured with me once in the 24 hrs since installed W2k. Occured during an internet session looking for a driver at www.Sony.com. Using IE 5.0 as browser. We have been suddenly disconnected by our ISP, but this has not caused a reboot at other times.

Would like to here from others if this is occuring on their systems.
Abit SE6,733@133 (locked chip) 4:4:1, 222
Mushkin 128Mb HSdram Cas2
Sony Spressa 145CDR
Maxtor 30G, ATA66

:disgust:

 

[Grminalac]

The odd thing I find about my reboot problem is that it seems ramdom. It does not seem caused by any one particular piece of hardware or program. The three times it has happened to me were, 1. trying to download a file. 2. Installing mechwarrior3. 3. watching a DVD movie, about 25 minutes into it.
i hope others have had this problem and have a fix.

 

[Psychoholic]

You need to disable the automatic reboot on system failure. Then you should receive an error message when this occurs.

To do this (must be performed as an Administrator):
Right Click My Computer and select Properties.
Select the Advanced tab then the Startup and Recovery button.
In the Syatem Failure area uncheck Automatically Reboot.

Once you do this and reboot you should get a blue screen when this occurs, you can use the information from the blue screen to try and pin down the problem(s).

 

[CyberTiger]

my reboots seems to be caused by particular programs instead of randomly.
DVD plays fine.

 

[Grminalac]

Yes I did that, hopefully i will get an error message next time. I saw a box to log errors to a file, i was wondering where i could find this file. Perhaps It contains information as to what device or program is giving me problems.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

In W2k, go to start>programs>accessories>administrative tools and then click "event viewer"
It will show you what was going on during each event and the error logged. (but you already knew that)
For more info on trouble shooting go the Microsoft web site - click on the url below and then to: "Inside Win2k Reliablity Enhancements, Part 1"
Its under the Windows NT Magazine Online section. Great info.
tombilliodeaux@hotmail.com
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library

 

I had a weird occurance on a fresh install of 2k today.
After I got cable installed and got it running.
I restarted and moved the NIC to a different slot.
Brought it back up and it went up fine.
Restarted after playing UT for a few mins.
Then it would get to the white bar, fly across then black screen and it reboots, and it looped like that until i turned it off.
Shut it down, brought it back up and its ok now.
Dont really know, had to run back to work =D
will play more tonight

 

[Shadow07]

I have actually seen this that was caused by the video driver. I would look at installing the chipsets driver.