Random Restarts

[RampantAndroid]

I leave my comp on overnight b/c I use citrus alarm clock....yesterday morning I woke up to my alarm NOT going off...and found my comp had restarted, and hung at the detection of my RAID array. Had to clear Bios.....

So I went to brush my teeth before I went to bed, and suddenly I hear my comp restart...WTF? It isn't my temp, my proc runs 44C Idle.

PSU is an Ultra 500W
RAM: Corsair XMS PC3200 2-3-3-6
Proc: AMD Athlon FX53


If its malware, I use Norton Antivrus 2005, Adaware, Microsoft syware.

Is a rebuild of windows in order here? I tried to go through and run antivirus in safe mode, but 2 times in a row it got so far, the HD light went on constantly, and it was locked. Had to do a cold boot to fix this.

 

[Fardringle]

One of my PCs started doing the same thing a while back. In my case it was due to a failing hard drive. I would highly recommend obtaining the drive diagnostic tool from your drive manufacturer and test both drives. Since you are using RAID 0, this could just as easily be a problem with the raid controller on your motherboard, in which case you'll want to check with MSI to see if they have a tool available to test the RAID controller itself.

 

[RampantAndroid]

OK, that requires me to pull them out of RAID, but I'll bive that a shot.

The last time it did it, it started to lag up, then suddenly froze. HD activity light was full on. Hit reset, tried to go to safe mode, and thats when it wouldn't load.

 

[RampantAndroid]

"A driver has overrun a stack used buffer. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this machine"...."**STOP: 0x000000F7 (0x00006D4B, 0x00006D4A, 0xFFFF92B5, 0x00000000)

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memoery dump complete


This happened at boot up...before I got to the desktop. Blue screen popped up, hard drives clicked (in that order) and then I went to reboot.

Upon reboot, it took a lot longer than normal to detect my RAID array...

I just put in a new Plextor DVD 716A...could this be at fault?

 

[RampantAndroid]

anyone?!

 

[wpshooter]

My guess would be, yes. It depends on how you went about adding this drive to the system. Plextors are great drives as far as I am concerned. Have you considered calling Plextors tech support. That would probably be your best bet other than starting over from scratch.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Well, I installed it like any other IDE drive....put it in, turn comp on, let windows detect it/install plextools....

I talked to my comp sci professor, he thinks I just need a complete wipe of windows, so thats what I'm gonna start with. Though my comp is temporarily stable, one time when I booted checkdisk kicked in, and fixed the bitmap tree. Apparntly when this problem crops up, it recurs.

 

[wpshooter]

Unfortunately, I agree with him.