rebooting issue

[Sinister_reb]

The last few times I've tried restarting my comp has gone to the blue screen of death when trying to load windows(up too briefly to get any info). If i wait 5-15 minutes then it usually boots just fine. That suggests some kind of heat problem. The weird thing is I keep my computer up and running for months at time without any issues and only need to rarely restart for software or driver update reasons or my cat steps on my surge protector on/off button. My gpu runs at 90c(a little hot for my liking stupid nvidia drivers), cpu 60c and Mb at 50c under stress. Any ideas whats over heating or could it be something else? Its not too big of a deal now, but if something is overheating I want to take care of it before real issues occur.

intel 6850 duo @3 ghz
gigabyte ep35c
gforce 8800gt
2 gig ram
winxp

 

[thegpfury]

It only happens if you restart your computer, but if you leave it running it's fine?

 

[mbevolution]

why would you say its a heat problem? if your cpu is 60c and mb 50c there is no way you are experiencing heat problem. i'm leaning more toward the software problem, more specificity on the problem would help with the diagnosis.

 

[Sinister_reb]

the reason i say its a heat problem is cause if i wait 10 or so minutes it will start fine, but if i try to boot while the system is still hot it always goes to BSoD when it tries to load windows and when i tried restarting today while my room was really hot it took the longest time to boot yet, about 20-25 minutes before finally booting(trying to boot every 5 minutes or so). I know it doesn't make much sense, which is why i'm seeking the great wisdom of the internet for help.

For software its winxp 32 bit, latest service pack and i dont think I've installed any software that might effect windows booting for a while now.

 

[thegpfury]

Could be a loose connection or something. Reseat the memory and cards. See if that helps.

 

[briankim09]

When I restart my PC, I meet the same problem. But it is ok. Nothing happens after that.

 

[Devilpapaya]

Having the BSOD error would be very helpful. If you hit f8 while booting you come to the safe mode select screen. At the bottom you will see a number of other options besides safemode. One of these should be "disable automatic restart on failure" select that and boot. When the BSOD comes it won't automatically close and restart and you can check the error code.

Also have you gotten some airduster and blow out the computer in awhile? That would be my first suggestion if you feel its a heat issue.

Also next time you do it. Try to completly power off the computer (cut power to it) unplug it from the wall, turn of the PSU, something like that. Give it about 30 seconds to dissapate any power then re-power it and see what happens. If that works it may be something wrong with some sort of volitile memory (RAM, VRAM, Processor cache) not clearing correctly when the computer is turned off.

I've never seen something like that happen, but other than heat I don't know what else would be dependent on the time between power off and power on.

 

[Sinister_reb]

Ok latest update. Had to restart again today, and this time had a new problem. It was the hottest yet in my room as it was the middle of a hot summer day. After it said press any key to boot from cd, it gave an error unable to load operating system. So i wait 5 minutes(unplugged and everything to see if that might help) I try again and it goes BSOD. Using f8 to disable reboot on bsod(which i forgot i could do thanks devilpapaya). The BSOD said BIOS ACPI error. I went to the store for half an hour came back and booted up just fine.


So it looks like its a BIOS issue but only when its hot. I'll update/flash BIOS and give my computer a good cleaning in the future and see if that helps.