SP2 issues? not till now...
Ok, so I built this PC about 4 months ago, and had no problems until recently. About a month ago, my computer would randomly restart. It did it very very rarely, so I assumed it was some application conflict, and didn't pay it much attention. This past weekend, I was gone for 3 days, and left my PC off. When I turned it on, XFire had some update, and when it was done, my PC restarted... nothing too out of the ordinary. After that, I never saw windows again. The computer would continually restart after the XP splash screen. So I figured I'd reformat. Windows worked fine all the installs for drivers and apps I have, but after SP2, it would randomly restart when I would click certain "buttons" on the screen... and random buttons too (for example, it restarted when I clicked submit at the bottom of this forum post page, once when I clicked to launch Mozilla Firefox, once when I clicked "accept" on MSconfig screen... just completely random). So, after several more reformats, I've come to the conclusion that SP2 is messing something up, the odd thing is, I didn't change any drivers or software from my last reformat, and had nowhere near this level of difficulty. Right now it has not restarted once and I am only running SP1. Oh one more tidbit... sometimes I got a blue screen, sometimes not, when I DID get it, it was up for 1 second or less... not enough time to read an error message...
Thanks for any input!!
Thanks for any input!!
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Memtest
Motherboard monitor
Motherboard monitor will also allow you to check your power supply rails (ie your 12v, 3.3v etc actual voltages. ) if they vary beyond certain limits it can cause reboots.
Once you've ruled out Memory, CPU and PSU as suspects post back and we'll continue from there.
Thanks for the information, but I don't understand how it could be hardware related. I have ran this PC for 5 days consecutively now, and not a single issue, no freezes, reboots, or anything. If it actually was hardware related, why would SP2 install trigger these issues? I would assume that hardware issues would be consistant reguardless of software installed. I have given up resolving why SP2 creates this problem, and have resorted to just using SP1. If anyone has heard of this issue before, or know what causes it, I would be interested in finding out why it does this.
http://memtest86.com/
SP2 has a lot more going on than SP1.
I had a new rig that ran great , benchmarked great and even folded great. But as soon as I started playing HL2 it would crash. I ran Memtest and it found some errors. I RMA'd my brand new "BIG BUCK" memory and upon receiving the replacement everything was fine.
HL2 was software, but it was not the problem.
Run memtest
If it shows any errors , that is the problem.
You don't want to give up on SP2...It fixes a bunch of vulnerabilities in SP1
Scott
Good Luck.
Asus A8V-Deluxe
Codegen 400W PSU
Athlon64 3200+
1GB DDR Ram (400)
1- 80 SATA (WD)
1- 250 GB IDE (WD- backup only)
1- DVD+/-RW
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO All-in-Wonder
I have not attempted any sort of overclocking, so as for the RAM timings and power, quite frankly, they are set at default, and have no idea what they are =/.
edit: another random thought, open your case and have a look how much dust has accumulated around your processor / memory and in your system fans. It could just be heat build up due to dust that's causing your problems.
I had a minor surge come through my PC, after taking it to the shop, nothing was damaged except the bios. The bios was not only reset, but it would no longer save changes you made. After replacing the motherboard with a MUCH better Asus A8V-SLI Premium, I ran into similar problems, but for a different reasons. Apparently the version of Windows XP didn't like something, so when I borrowed a friend's copy, it worked fine. In any case, the Power Supply is fine (tested at the store), RAM is fine (ran Memtest for 10 hours). Thanks for pointing me in the right direction... I never would have guessed it was hardware that was refusing SP2!! Thanks again!