Re: WindowsXP Pro resets when running games - help!

From: Jimmy S. (Private)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:09:20 -0400

Hi Jason,

Unchecking the automatic reboot option usually does not have
the great effect of solving the original problem. Count yourself
lucky, and don't change a thing if it continues to work especially
now that you've updated your drivers based on the ati*** error.

If you experience more errors on a regular basis, righ-click and
disable the Radeon - secondary entry, and try using another CD
Rom player and cable to determine if that is causing the issue. :-) 

-- 
Cheers,                                 Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S.                               http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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"Jason Sayer" <RemovenospamJason@Jsayer.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:c7jl9h$rkl$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
| I took your advice and unticked the 'Automatically restart' option in
| StartUp & Recovery.
|
| The system has not rebooted once or dropped out of a game since (after a few
| different periods of play). So all would seem cured so far. No blue screens
| or error messages have come up at all.
|
| Do you think that as the crashes were previously happening randomly I have
| just been lucky so far or could it possibly be that just by unticking the
| box it has been enough to stop Windows re-booting for a maybe a minor error
| that now doesn't cause the game to stop running??  Is this possible or would
| the errors still come up?
|
| I have looked at the Event Veiver and it seems that the previous errors that
| occurred were 2 things. One was marked up as 'ati - not quite sure what the
| rest was' so I guess that is the graphics card (have now also installed the
| latest catalyst drivers from Ati - although the system was back to running
| fine before I installed them). The second error was showing as 'cdrom'. Both
| error had a red circle with a white cross through so i'm assuming these
| would have previously caused the re-boots? Not sure what the second error
| means but could it possible the drive had a problem reading the disc and
| caused the error and re-boot? (would the system have re-booted for something
| like that?!)
|
| It would also seem that the errors occurred only on games where some data
| was read from CD-Rom. The free WindowsXP games run fine from the Hard Drive.
|
| The only other possible problem I see is that upon a clean install of the
| Radeon 9200 graphics card (AGP), Windows detects 2 entries:-
|
| 1. Radeon 9200
| 2. Radeon 9200 - Secondary
|
| When the drivers for the card are installed it happily installs them for
| both entries with no errors. If I delete the 2nd entry from Device Manager
| it always re-finds it again upon re-boot and re-installs the drivers ok.
|
| I'd be grateful for your advice on these findings.
|
| Thanks
| Jason
|
|
|
|
| "Jimmy S." <Private> wrote in message
| news:OnEGM9BNEHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| > Hi Jason,
| >
| > Your system is most likely restarting as a result of a STOP error.
| >
| > To stop this behavior go to Control Panel / System / Advanced /
| > Click the Startup and Recovery Settings button / Uncheck the box
| > labelled "Automatically restart"  under the System Failure section.
| >
| > To analyse the error, try the steps in: http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
| >
| > If the error indicates a file name that begins with ati, or nv (nVidia)
| > the most likely solution would be to install the latest drivers using
| > the instructions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers
| >
| > -- 
| > Cheers,                                 Windows XP MVP Shell / User
| > Jimmy S.                               http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
| >
| >
| > Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
| > Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call /
| Contact
| > MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
| > My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty;  nor do I confer any
| rights.
| > _________________________________________________________
| >
| > "Jason Sayer" <RemovenospamJason@Jsayer.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
| news:c7fdjs$6e7$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
| > | I've recently built a PC with XP Pro. It has the latest DirectX
| installed
| > | and the system ran fine for over a week with no problems. Games were
| being
| > | played for a few hours at a time with no problems (i.e Black Hawk Down,
| Call
| > | of Duty etc.)
| > |
| > | However, now when playing games, after a couple of minutes when playing
| it
| > | suddenly resets the system and reboots back up to Windows with no prior
| > | warning.
| > |
| > | There are no problems or crashes when working in Windows normally so I
| can't
| > | understand what could be the problem.
| > |
| > | I have SP1 installed for Windows and the PC has never been connected to
| the
| > | Internet so i'm assuming that there can't have been a virus downloaded
| from
| > | anywhere.
| > |
| > | It has an ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card & AthlonXP 2.6 processor & 512mb
| PC2700
| > | Ram.
| > |
| > | Can anyone help??
| > |
| > | Thanks
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
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