Random Restarts...

[kelesh3]

Twice in Three days and three times overall i get random restarts.... My system config is below. I'm running windows 2000. Anybody have any idea what the problem could be and how to fix it? Could it be power supply? Connections loose? Bad ram? I have no other problems with windows 2000 so far. It's been about a month and only 3 random restarts, no hangs......... please help me.

 

[kirk444]

Not positive, but if your motherboard supports AGP 4x, try disabling it. I have an A7V and AGP 4x was causing random restarts on my system (though more frequent) Also, see if you have the latest VIA 4-1 drivers/AGP driver...

Hope this helps!

 

[kelesh3]

it only supports 2x, i'll check for the latest 4-in-1 drivers

 

[Technonut]

The K7 Pro Slot A board is an AMD chipset board. Do not install the VIA 4 in 1 drivers. If Win2000 runs into a driver conflict or something, it will reboot. There is a setting to disable that, and also an error log you can look at to see what made it reboot. I run a dual boot system, but do not use 2000 often. I will boot into 2000 when I get a moment, and post back where to find that setting.

 

[Technonut]

Go into Control Panel, System Properties, and click the Advanced tab. Uncheck the box under Automatically Reboot. Make sure that you have Write An Event To The System Log checked.

The next time it reboots it's self, go into Computer Management, select System Tools, select Event Viewer, and select System Errors Log. If it is a driver or software conflict, you should be able to see what it was. I think if you have the "Automatically Reboot" box unchecked, it will give you a blue screen instead of rebooting it's self. If it does that, it is more than likely a driver/software conflict. If not, it is more than likely the RAM , power supply, or something hardware related.


EDIT: Before you wait for it to reboot again, I think that the "Write an Event to the System Log" is enabled by default. Just go into the System Error Log right now and look at the log instead of waiting for it to reboot it's self again, and look back through it to see if you can find what gave it problems the last time.

 

[kelesh3]

Wow, thanks for your help.

The error i got was..... any idea what this is? "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0x01754114, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xbff31c03). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini121400-01.dmp. "