I've had my computer for about 4 years now, and it just started restarting randomly. I have no idea why. It started doing it after I reformatted (somebody told me that's usually not the reason why my computer would restart, but it never did it before). I have also installed all my drivers for my hardware. In another thread (they didn't let me post in it because it was over 60 days old), one of the guys said to check the system logs at the time of the reset...I did, and i got this The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000005, 0xe24b49bf, 0xba3e1b2c, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini092306-01.dmp. I have no idea what to do, and it's starting to really annoy me.
My first reccomendation would be to try to download some bootable media, really anything would work, but preferable you would want a full desktop environment to test it in, such as Damn Small Linux. If it boots and runs successfully with something like that then your problem is likely software, not hardware related. From there, I would go into safe mode and check for hardware or device conflicts and things like that. Also, does it seem to always happen when you're doing something in particular or at the same point in time?
HELLO. maybe your harddrive have several badsectors that came after reformat that happens to me once. a 4year old pc is really old in computer years jjaaja. so if you know your hard disk brand try to download for manufacturer webpage diagnostic tool for dos so yo copy to a floppy disc and perform the test on dos wich is better so the soft can either block or fix bad sector. theres also HDD regenerator wich is very good fixing bad sector. if the problem show off after reformat is maybe due to bad sectors on disk. why you reformatt your drive??
Well it usually restarts when I am playing a game. Also, I am not sure where to get the "manufacturer webpage diagnostic tool for dos" and the HDD regenerator is not registered so I can't really use it...I have a Nvida nforce2 by the way. Also, I have windows..so I'm not sure if the linux thing will work..(I don't really know much about computers)
i had the same problem with my hp computer what i did was a system recovery from like a week ago....and it worked....hope this helps..bye.
chair1234 if your computer restart everytime you play agame usually can be either software issue like drivers incompatibilities or corrupted drivers. you can download nforce 2 chipset drivers in www.nvidia.com in download section you select drivers/platform/nforce 2. are you using a video card?? beacuse if you video card have problems it can show video artifacts likes wierd lines,squares on your monitor,system crashes or restarting while playing. here download the seatools is for general use and its freware download install it run the app it will prompt you to insert floppy to create bootable flopy disk. http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html thats the link (seatools)
if its during games your power supply might not be pumping as many watts as you need or your processor is overheating. i have the same problem my compaq. does it reboot when doing less stress full things like internet explorer, messaging or something? Whats your computers general hardware. CPU?, RAM?, PSU?, VIDEO CARD(AGP OR PCIE), IDE DEVICES?, AND OTHER DEVICES,. reason i bring up a weak psu is because most computers come stock with 350 to 450watts thats not much.
Sometimes it restarts when I just have firefox open and im reading something, but that rarely ever happens. Uhh, my hardware: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83 GHz 512 MB of RAM My video card is APG (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X And I dont know what IDE devices are.
I hope it is not against forum rules to mention other websites but you may be able to track down your problem by going to www.langa.com or to www.pcpitstop.com. Fred Langa used to write for WinMag and has a section called "browsertune" that runs a series of tests on various systems of the computer. Both sites free and without catches.
Ok, so I think I have kinda figured it out. My computer restarts when I run a game, but only when I run two clients at a time. Does this mean I need more ram?
It could well be a overheating problem! Clena your case out and see if that helps! Or download hmonitor and post some results!
check in your bios under hardware monitor if there to see what the cpu temp is the next time it restarts
When you found your temp what exactly where you doing? Had you just turned the computer off? Or were your browsing the internet? Or had it indeed just started? Thoose temps ar pretty hot but not too hot.
I had the same problem and I couln't figure out why. There was no spyware issue, power was fine, and hard drive was fine. Then I took a look at the memory and there was 2 different memory stick from diffent company. I remove one of them and now it's been working fine without any issues.
I was playing a game for a while. I think I found the problem though, I went to my video card company's website and downloaded the latest driver, I hope this fixes it.
