windows xp random restarts?

[cyanide324]

Hi, after setting up my new rig with windows xp Pro, it was working great! I'm running a 4000+ on it with an x800 pro. I was running doom 3 for a few minutes, and suddenly windows restarts, the hell? so it restarts and as soon as the windows background loads, it restarts again, cycle after cycle. I reformatted, and tried installing windows again and it came up with some weird error saying it had to restart, it won't let me put windows back on ... any ideas? :/

 

[Uncle Bob]

what about giving us a list of the components (including the psu make/model/rating and what cooling fans you have in the system)

also, some extra info on the 'weird error' might help

 

[cyanide324]

alright, sorry ... list of components

AMD 64bit 4000+
Seagate 160 gb SATA hdd
1gig of corsair DDR400
stock heatsink/fan for the CPU
ATI x800 pro
two other fans, one on the side panel and one in the back
Soltek KT8pro 939, flashed bios to 1.3 (latest)

alright, so i put the windows XP cd in, and set the bios up to boot from the CDrom drive. the install process will go, it'll load up some executables for the setup, then the blue screen of death. "a problem has beend etected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer" blah blah ... "technical information: *** STOP: 0x0000007F (0x0000000D, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)" It's weird though, i mean windows was working fine before ... then when i ran doom3 it restarted ... now it won't even let me install windows, hmm ... any suggestions are appreciated!!

 

[cyanide324]

after reading what the error said, and i looked up the specific error on microsoft.com, it said something about faulty memory. So i downloaded the WINDOWS MEMORY DIAGNOSTIC tool, and all of these tests failed ... what could of happened to my ram? They're still under warranty with newegg, thank god ... but how could that happen?

 

[Uncle Bob]

It's unusual for memory to fail like this......

Did you make sure it's seated properly in the motherboard.
Were you aware of ESD risks when handling / installing components.

What kind of errors did the diagnostic report, if there was a log file produced it may be worthwile either posting it here, or printing it out to send back with the RAM

 

[Blazer]

if your memory test good in another board you may have damaged your sys with a poor quality power supply