System Keeps Rebooting?

[movieman]

The computer just gets in a vicious loop and continues to reboot after a restart for example. Antivirus and spyware checks have all been run. Gets to the welcome splash screen, and as soon as the desktop appears, it reboots, and many many times!

I downloaded SpeedFan as recommended by someone, and this is what I have below. Also, gives the power supply voltages --- are they "in spec" or unstable possibly??? I pulled the tower out of the desk area it was in, and it runs a bit cooler, and is stable for a while, unless I have to reboot ---

System Specs :

XP PRO
XP 3000+
1gb Corsair 3200
GeForce FX 5500
Pioneer DVR-109
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Antec True 550
Antec 1080 amg

SpeedFan

SANDRA has the following specs :

Sandra

Also, when I am opening large programs or say using ACDSee, I can hear a slight "crackle" in the speakers while the system is loading the app, or working harder...Could this be a hint too???

Appreciate any ideas or thoughts!

Richard

 

[betterkarma4519]

Have you downloaded any new sound drivers recently?

 

[movieman]

No I haven't --- no newer drivers at all...

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: movieman
The computer just gets in a vicious loop and continues to reboot after a restart for example. Antivirus and spyware checks have all been run. Gets to the welcome splash screen, and as soon as the desktop appears, it reboots, and many many times!

I downloaded SpeedFan as recommended by someone, and this is what I have below. Also, gives the power supply voltages --- are they "in spec" or unstable possibly??? I pulled the tower out of the desk area it was in, and it runs a bit cooler, and is stable for a while, unless I have to reboot ---

System Specs :

XP PRO
XP 3000+
1gb Corsair 3200
GeForce FX 5500
Pioneer DVR-109
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Antec True 550
Antec 1080 amg

SpeedFan

SANDRA has the following specs :

Sandra

Also, when I am opening large programs or say using ACDSee, I can hear a slight "crackle" in the speakers while the system is loading the app, or working harder...Could this be a hint too???

Appreciate any ideas or thoughts!

Richard

Does it reboot in safe mode?
Did you turn off automatic reboot?
Are minidumps being written to c:\windows\minidumps?

 

[movieman]

Does not reboot in safe mode, just tries to go to the regular desktop, then reboots.

I don't know where an automatic reboot setting is found?

I don't have anything called minidumps

 

[dclive]

Boot in safe mode. Tell us what happens.
Search here for how to switch automatic reboot setting to off. It's under My Computer / Properties.
Confirm in c:\windows\minidumps folder you have no files present in there. If you do have files, type their filenames in your message.

 

[movieman]

I don't have a minidump folder at that location?

Ok --- I unchecked the reboot option ---- here are some things found in the event log :

In the event viewer from when it was rebooting last night, here are some errors under SYSTEM:

SERVICE CONTROL MANAGER
The hptpro service failed to start due to the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

ULTRA
The device, \Device\Scsi\ultra1, did not respond within the timeout period.

Looks like these are the two common errors when the problem arises ----

 

[dclive]

Are you asking about the minidump folder, or telling us?
You've got a disk problem, based on what I see there.
Again, what happens in safe mode? I don't completely understand what happens in safe mode vs. normal mode - it seems in both they reboot, so what's the difference?

When did this start? How long did it work? What changed just prior to this change?

 

[movieman]

Ok dclive --- sorry, but I am still a bit of a noob, but can usually troubleshoot my system fairly well ...

I meant that I don't have that minidumps folder on my system at that location c:\windows\minidumps???

Safe Mode just booted fine, no problem. I then went back to a regular reboot, and it seems fine now too...Not sure if unchecking that auto reboot might of helped or not?

I have had one other issue that has happened when it rebooted a lot before - The ASUS MB voice would say "system failed memory test" (not sure if that even bothered the system though)...That just happened when I rebooted from safe to selective startup, but I rebooted again into normal startup and system passed all checks....

 

[dclive]

Unchecking autoreboot won't change any other behavior than just that.... it won't fix anything else.

 

[movieman]

True --- well, we will see what happens here???

Thanks for your time ----

Richard