WTF is going on? My computer reboots itsself randomly in win2k...

[Heifetz]

When I first did a clean install of win2k about 2 month ago, everything worked fine. No BSODs or crashes. But about probably 2 - 3 weeks ago, my computer would just randomly freeze or reboot itself w/o any warning! I can't pinpoint exactly whats wrong, but this all started to happen when I installed SP1 and upgraded IE to 5.5. It would freeze randomly when I mess around with an application window, like maximizing it or resizing it, and my whole system would freeze. Other time, if I click a button in IE or click anything on another app, my computer would just reboot for no reason at all! I think most of the time it happened with IE though.
I need to solve this problem, or I'll be forced to reformat and reinstall again!

Please help!


Heifetz

 

[TonyRI]

Goto Start----------------->Control Panel-------------->System---->
---------->Advanced------------->Startup and recovery------------->
--------->And Uncheck Automatic Reboot.

When Ie crashes youll just get an error now.

Hope this helps.

 

[BigToque]

What type of CPU do you have, and how many Watts is your power supply?

 

[Heifetz]

I really doubt that its a hardware caused problem, because my computer was running fine once upon a time before I installed all the patches for Win2k.

But heres the specs for my computer anyways

250W Enlight 9260(I think) case
Duron 600 @ 8 x 113 (904) @ 1.675 volts
Abit KT7
256 Megs PC133 and PC100 ram.
V3 2k with latest Win2k Drivers
SB PCI512.

Ok, so I'm running at 113 fsb with a stick of 128 pc100 ram. But I know that its totally stable at the speed. Also the Duron is stable at 904 too at 1.675. I adjusted the settings (higher voltage, lower speed) to see if it would stop the crashes, but they did nothing.

One more thing.

Anyone know what "The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period." means? I get these errors everytime I start my computer, titled "ATAPI" in the event viewer. I've never seen these errors before.


Heifetz

 

[Dave]

I had a very similar happen when I was overclocking a PIII ... system seemded to run fine for hours, then would reboot ... I backed down a little on the OC and the reboots stopped.

Also, make sure that you have the latest video drivers ... it sounds a little suspicious that reboots occur while resizing windows.

I could be a "combo reboot" : OCing + early WIN2k video drivers.

Good luck ...

 

[KennyH]

I have also had these problems occur before only after I installed all the updates for win2k including service pack 1. For instance, before I installed sp1 everything was fine no problems. I go to install all the latest updates and now when I go to empty the trash, the trash will be deleted but the can stays full until I reboot. I have verified this on three different systems! What is up with that? Also in my machine I found that after installing all the updates I looked in the device manager and had five different network cards installed, when I only have one in my box! I try to uninstall them and windows says that they are needed to boot the machine! What the heck is up with windows update?

 

[dalgin]

Mirosoft, what do you expect?
they can not write a decent OS, and you guys are saying service pack is gonna fix it ))))
remember, they are the ones who are writing the SP1 too.
I had the same problem 2 weeks ago, and I realized ( after 2 weeks of debugging) it was the Video Card. after changing the video card, everything turned up fine.

my video card was : S3 3D accelerator with 4 mg ram.

good luck.

 

[Heifetz]

Ya, I definately think its something to do with the SP1 updates. Because before I updated win2k, with a plain install, everything worked perfectly. I ran about probably a month without one crash, and during that time, the computer would be up about 6-7 days without reboot. I guess the only way to solve the problems now is to delete everything and reinstall win2k!


Heifetz