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z00mer
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 Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 21:45 Post subject: Computer randomly reboots. |
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AMD 64 Opteron 165 OC'd to 2.5ghz
DFI Infinity nForce4 motherboard
nVidia XFX 7800GT 256mb video card
2x512 Kingston HyperX ram
120gb Seagate hard drive split into two partitions
The computer randomly reboots. I'm running WinXP pro 64bit, everything seemed fine during installation. I installed 64bit drivers and everything was working out. But every once and a while my computer freezes for a second, then reboots. I turned off automatic reboots and the last time (ten minutes ago) it rebooted it went to a blue screen and I got an error like this:
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
If this is the first time this has happened please remove any new hardware "blah blah blah"...
Then near the bottom it said:
Technical Information
*** Stop: 0x00000000000003 (0x0000000c000000f, 0xFFFFFFFFFF97FFFF......etc
*** win32k.sys - Address FFFFFFFFF97FFFFFF0917E0, DataStamp.... etc
Begining dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Please contact your sys admin .... etc
Everything is relatively new except the hard drive which is almost three years old. Any suggestions? I felt the hard drive and it gets pretty hot, but not so hot that it burns when I touch it.
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 21:48 Post subject: |
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hmm tjeck your temperature in bios (Just to make sure your CPU aint overheating) though seems like the problem is Ram/Memory related. Try to replace the RAM block with some older ones or just some you are absolutely sure are working.
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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deelix
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 21:49 Post subject: |
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Heat or spyware, virus aka fucked pc. Lets hope its just the software.
Format all the disks.
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z00mer
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 22:05 Post subject: |
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I don't think it could be a virus, because I just installed this early this morning. All I've downloaded is drivers from the Microsoft or nVidia site. I reset the memory configuration in the BIOS to auto so I'll see if that does anything. The only other RAM I have is 512 value select ram. I'll try that if this doesn't work. But you don't think its the hard drive then? Oh and the CPU was running cool.
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 22:48 Post subject: |
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Sure, since it seems like a memory related problem though let us know with the valueram. Otherwise take a old HDD with a OS on and try to boot that up.
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 22:55 Post subject: |
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Turn down the overcklocking first, this way you know for certain it's not due to the oc. The Stop message you are getting is likely hardware related (either a driver isssue or maybe your ram, set some slower timings for the ram in bios)
Maybe you can find something here:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php
Check out their forum, they might be able to help you:
http://forum.aumha.org/
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z00mer
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 00:10 Post subject: |
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I turned down the overclocking, but it still reboots. I tried playing FEAR again and same thing happened when I defragged. I installed a HDD temperature monitor and it has the hard drive at around 44-47C when running idle and/or small apps and it gave an alarm at 50C when I was defragging. I opened the case but it didn't help too much. There is however, a large place for a fan right in front of the hard drive bays. Maybe if I put a fan there it will temporarily keep the HDD at reasonable levels until I buy a new hard drive.
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 00:16 Post subject: |
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Nah, i don't think it's the hd temp. My Samsung HD160JJ runs at 52C for almost a year now (24/7) without any problems. It's a little bit too high, but most modern drives can take up to 55C, but higher temps shorten the lifetime of a drive.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 00:19 Post subject: |
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I would suggest you try a none 64bit OS and see if that gives you any issues..
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kosmiq
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 00:21 Post subject: |
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If you have overclocked your memory much lately they could be getting bad now...
Try setting everything to standard speeds (incl gfx), relax memory timings and test that. Still getting reboots? Well switch the memory and see if that helps.
Behold his GLORY! Bow for the technical master!
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 00:54 Post subject: |
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You could try to boot up a live CD and see if it reboots from it. This is an easy way to check if it's your installation that's the problem. There are plenty of Linux-live-Cd's out there, like http://www.knoppix.org/ isn't so hard to use. If you could boot up one of these you can test your hardware on a completely different system.
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z00mer
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kosmiq
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 16:26 Post subject: |
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It could be your SATA or IDE cable getting bad. I have been through that myself.
For me it was a SATA cable going to my 2nd sata drive getting real bad. So whenever I did anything on my PC (even windows) everything would stop for 3 secs and then continue 10secs and then stop again... It would keep doing like that and I finally discovered it was my 2nd SATA drive being plugged and unplugged so to say... So check the cables too!
Behold his GLORY! Bow for the technical master!
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 18:21 Post subject: |
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Get Memtest86:
http://www.memtest86.com/
Reset the BIOS and NO OVERCLOCKING. If your memory is a problem then change the timing to EXACTLY what is specified. If your are mixing manufactures then test separately, they may not play nice together.
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Feb 2006 18:26 Post subject: |
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OH, one last thing. Have you check the Event Viewer yet? See any errors under SYSTEM?
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