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Well what do you know... Found new audio drivers and everything's running stable so far... That would be too sweet if that's what the problem was.
 
I was having the same problem when I was running extreme programs. Especially games. If your computer is backed up to a wall pull it out some or if it is in a closet in my case, put a fan behind it. I have not had it reboot ever since I have done this.
 
I don't think cooling is an issue. I have several fans in my case and usually just leave it with the side panel off. Just goes to show what a pain it is to troubleshoot something like this.

Edit: motherboard monitor shows my CPU temps in the low to mid 40s, sometimes high 30s, so...
 
Well, it just happened again, so it wasn't the audio driver (not that I realistically thought it would be 🙂) Will switch out RAM asap.
 
I'll chime in with my experience from the past month with my rebooting problem.

As I said earlier, I nearly swapped everything out except for the cpu and mobo. I proceed to RMA my mobo, and I get another board a month later from Asus. However, the rebooting still occurs. I call Intel up for an RMA. I hate it when they outsource to India. Well, the guy refused to give me an RMA saying I had ram that was not compatible. The system ram fine with my Corsair 3200 and Hyperx3500. So I buy a new stick of ram listed on Asus's list. I plugged the ram in just a few minutes ago. Same problem. THe intel guy also said I have to put the chip in another board that is working for him to believe the chip is really bad. arrrg!
 
Just another update...I took a chip out of a Dell 8300, same model chip as the one I am having problems with. My system did not reboot or lock up. Ok so I took my "bad" chip and put it in the Dell, WinXP crashed/BSOD even before the GUI was loaded.

I'm going to give Intel a piece of my mind. They made me go out and buy ram. On top of that, they don't even have a toll free number.
 
I've been researching the Save Dump... I also get a system error. The problem happened soon after I installed the 3.8 Catalysts. I went back to the 3.7s and still had the issue. I'm running a reformat and reinstal now, and I sill have the problem. I really think the 3.8 catalysts did something bad to my 9700 AIW. I rebooted a couple of times when I reinstalled Windows.

Some things to try that may help. In Control Panel -> System -> System restore, turn it off, select OK, turn it back on, then reboot. Make sure you're not o/c'd when you do it. When you reboot on errors like that, you can get corrupted files. There's an issue where it leads to Save Dumps, I'd recommend a search of the Microsoft Kinowledge base. There's a hot fix for it, sorry I do not have the link. I'd also recommend reinstalling your Chipset, and check disk integrity with a scan disk program. After that you might try turning off fast writes. Then there's the possibility it's a program you're loading, like CD burning (Roxio is a possible culprit) or the sound drivers. In the run command, type "MSConfig". Deselect all of your start up programs and reboot. Do you still have the problem? If no, add a few back at a time and see where the issue is. This website helps a lot with this type debugging:

Start up program descriptions
 
Originally posted by: Pothead
Just another update...I took a chip out of a Dell 8300, same model chip as the one I am having problems with. My system did not reboot or lock up. Ok so I took my "bad" chip and put it in the Dell, WinXP crashed/BSOD even before the GUI was loaded.

I'm going to give Intel a piece of my mind. They made me go out and buy ram. On top of that, they don't even have a toll free number.
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Tell us how that goes. Outsourcing to India = BAD

Caveat Emptor.
 
I'm going to RMA my motherboard right before I leave for the Thanksgiving break. Hopefully that'll be the solution. I've tried everything else. I'll let you know how that turns out. This has been quite the royal pain, but hopefully some of the suggestions here will help some others.

Locutus3691: This may be long overdue, but you can put memtest on a cd and boot off of it.
 
Thank goodness I have several PCs lying around. My PCs are dying left and right, a XP1700 died out of the blue just last month. I spent an hour arguing with Intel tech support.

Told him I bought the ram and that it did jack. Then I tell him how I swapped a P4 2.6C from a Dell 8300 and installed it into my system. My system ran fine. Then I put my "bad chip" into the Dell, crashing it before loading XP. He had the audacity to tell me maybe I should have had a technician do it. He didn't believe that I did it or of the sort. Then he tells me he wants the serials and batch numbers and markings of both chips. I gave him it. Then he reluctantly started my RMA. As he was giving it to me, he said, "In my humble opinion, you are wasting your time, it is not the processor causing the problems."

Yes, I really wanted to smack him. At least AMD has better tech support than Intel.
 
Yeah, I have an old Pentium III sitting around doing nothing, so I'll get to use that for hopefully around a week at the very most.

Edited for speeling and grammer 😉
 
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