Re: Very Unstable and spontanious restarts

Hi Charles,

To determine what driver is causing the problem I need you to enable driver
verifier.
Steps:
1) Windows Key + R
2) Type in 'verifier' and hit enter
3) Make sure 'Create Standard Setting' is selected and hit next
4) Click on 'Select all drivers installed on this computer' and hit Finish
5) Reboot

There is a possibility that your computer will crash on reboot. If this
occurs hit F8 when rebooting just before the windows logo screen and select
the safe mode boot option. Follow the same steps above but on step 4 choose
'Select driver names from a list'; hit next; check the box next to any
driver where the provider is not Microsoft; hit Finish; reboot.

This will slow the performance of you computer a little while enabled but
will hopefully catch the driver causing corruption. Next time you crash
the blue screen will hopefully say something like
"DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION". If this occurs please send the
corresponding minidump (by default it is at c:\windows\Minidump ) my way.
If you have any questions or I didn't explain something well enough don't
hesitate to e-mail me (remove "online") back. Good Luck,


Joshua Smith
OpenGL Test Lab
Microsoft
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"charles" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:16EE1217-8F6D-4284-86A4-A967EAFED825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> Im using XP Pro and it has become highly unstable and programs stop
> responding
> for no real reason, and every now and then it just flashes a black screen
> and restarts right during my session on the internet or other.
> There is no particular thing I do for it to happen,
> at first i thought maybe it was to hot inside the computer so I added 1
> more
> fan even though i already have 2, but even at low temperatures it
> continues.
> I then reinstalled Windows XP and I still have the problem, and im pretty
> sure it is not the hardware causing this problem because the hardware is
> good
> quality and all within 1 - 5 months old.
>
> If anyone could help me in any way to resolve this problem it would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you


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