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Computer Restarting

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  • 10-03-2004 5:00pm
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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭


    Over a period of the past few weeks my pc has restarted itself with little or no warning as to when it's going to do so and i can't for the life of me figure out why. I get a poxy blue screen of death for a millisecond before the pc restarts. This tends to happen as i boot up the pc in windows xp, as the screen goes blank right before it shows the welcome screen, it'll show this bsod and reboot. It takes at least 3 restarts for it to finally fully boot. Some days it's fine and other it'll reboot at least once when i'm just doing stuff with the OS. It's starting to happen more frequently and is worrying me. I've run full virus and spyware scans and cleaned the system so i dont think it's a virus of any sort, although i could be wrong. I'm thinking it's more hardware related, which would be a real pain as i only had to replace my motherboard not so long ago. Anyone else had this experience and know how to remedy it? Thanks in advance...


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    fatherdougalmag
    Registered Users Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭fatherdougalmag


    The BSOD might point to the errant driver that's causing the problem. You should hit <WINDOWS><Pause/Break>, go to Advanced, Startup and Recover settings and uncheck Automatically restart. When the BSOD appears see if there's any useful information on screen. It might tell you what .SYS the exception occured.

    Did this start happening after installing a new device, software? See if you can use the restore point feature to roll back to a working config.


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    No nothing in the system has changed which is annoying me. Erm, surely there's a log in my system somewhere that tells me the text of the bsod? Considering as i just turned off automatically restart, i saw that it automatically makes an error log, can't i just use the text from this and see what's wrong?


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    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Contol panel, administrative tools, event viewer, and system do it for you?

    Mark


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Erm nope, that's not what i'm after, but thanks anyways.


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    fatherdougalmag
    Registered Users Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭fatherdougalmag


    Depending on what sort of dump (if any) is being created a .DMP file is usually created in your %WINDIR% directory (usualy c:\windows on XP). If you feel so inclined you could download the Windows debugger and open this crash dump, give the command !analyze -v to see what driver caused the exception.

    If you've nothing better to do :)


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