Random Restarts - Help me interpret this message?

[Transition]

I'm finally starting to experience random restarts after 6 months of seemless use.. Here's the message the event log is generating..

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xc0000005, 0xa0085b94, 0x00000001, 0x7fff96ec). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini072502-04.dmp.

Can anyone help me interpret this? BTW: my mobo is a ECS K7S5A - original BIOS still..

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Transition
I'm finally starting to experience random restarts after 6 months of seemless use.. Here's the message the event log is generating..

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xc0000005, 0xa0085b94, 0x00000001, 0x7fff96ec). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini072502-04.dmp.

Can anyone help me interpret this? BTW: my mobo is a ECS K7S5A - original BIOS still..

You could always try updating your BIOS. Anyway, when I first clean-installed win2k (back when it first came out) I experienced loads of random restarts and instability. I thought it was the and trashed it. (went back to win98se). I found out later (when win98se started doing the same thing) that my RAM had become fubar somehow. Changed my memory, re-clean-installed win2k and was happy with it ever since. (except for when I tried WinXP for a period of time, after which I switched back to win2k).

So....uh...moral of the story....maybe it's your memory?

 

[Transition]

Well, can anyone tell me what the jargon is that's given in the error?

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xc0000005, 0xa0085b94, 0x00000001, 0x7fff96ec). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini072502-04.dmp.

 

[Oogle]

Hit the "Windows" Key + "Pause Break" key. This should bring up your system properties. Go to the advanced tab. Click on the "startup and recovery" button. A new window should pop up looking like this image:

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Uncheck "Automatically reboot" and save your settings. Now hopefully, if your machine crashes again, the blue screen will actually stay up, giving you time to see which file generated the error. Usually, the file is some system file (.SYS). If you can name the file, you can narrow down what is causing the problem.

Read this article for more info

MS Support Article

 

[knappster]

if you think it's the memory, run Memtest on your computer, and you can figure out if you have bad RAM...