RE: Computer Freezes and Reboots
- From: Craig A. <CraigA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:26:02 -0700
Steve
Thanks so much for a Great response, I had already done your suggestion
and it didn't work. I really appreciate you giving me such a great response
though and your desire to help someone should be saluted. Thanks.
Last night I went home dismantled my CPU, took it to the Workshop and took
the shop vac and blew it out (from a distance of about 3 feet), I then went
back into the house, took out the Nividia 6600 GT Graphics card and made sure
the onboard fan was clean and the grids to the heat sink OPEn and clear. I
did notice the label on the top of the hub of the fan had curled and was
rubbing against the board installed above it. So I ripped the label off it
and clean it real good.
I then re inserted the graphics card, downloaded the driver Mary
suggested, installed it and re booted.
I played a game for over an hour with no problem, what it did do was give
a short High Pitch ripping sound and a flicker in the graphics and then it
would continue on. So something is still a problem but it works.
Thanks everyone.
THanks again Steve.
--
I Have forgotten so much of what I once knew.
"A Stranger is a Friend you haven''t met yet."
"Steve''s wonder" wrote:
Craig, I feel sorry for you..
When one is not a computer expert, this kind of problems really can drive
one crazy. I'm no expert, but maybe I can give you some advice so you can
find the source of your problem.
First, the reboot is caused by a setting in your computer. If you go to
Start/Control Panel/System and hit the "Advanced" tab, you'll find at the
lower part a field called "Start and restore" (or something similar, I run a
Swedish version of the OS and don't know exactly what it says in an english
version). Click on "Settings".
In the box "System error" you find that there is three boxes selected, those
are "Enter event to system log", "Send administrative warning" and "Reboot
automatically".
The first box is important that it's checked, because this means whatever
went wrong is being entered into the system log where you can find it later,
I'll explain that if you read on.
The last box is also important since this is what causes the reboot. If you
uncheck this box, you may be able to get some hints of what goes wrong prior
to the reboots you have now.
Okay, that's about the reboot and syslog entries part. Now it's time to take
a look in this syslog.
Click "Start" and RGHT click on "My computer". Select "Manage" in the popup
menu. This opens the computer management software, which is a really helpful
program. It can be used to manage disks (format, create partitions, and a lot
more).
But for you right now, this is the doorway to the syslog. Or logs, rather,
since it keeps track of a lot of things.
If you in the left part of the window click on "Log book" you find entries
like "Program log", "Media center", "System log" etc.
In the logs you find several levels of information - plain information of
system events, like "started program, finished recording your favourite
soap", but also warnings ("somebody stopped recording Scrubs before it
ended!!) and also - listen now - errors.
Each error has a description and a number which can be used to track down
the problem.
Also, you'll find in the menu "show" that there is a filter option where you
can filter errors by process or by hardware. You can by going through this
systematically nail down the source of your problem.
There is a remote risk that the problem you have is so complicated that it
prevents even entries in the system log, but usually it's there.
If you find the source of the error, I'm sure someone in here or in one of
the other XP related forums can be of service to you.
Best of luck.
Steve
"Craig A." wrote:
All was fine for many months and several weeks back I had to do a few FULL
DESTRUTIVE RECOVERIES. Most everything is still fine, except when I play a
couple of games, the computer will just freeze and then reboot.
I have run DISK CLEANUP, SCAN DISK, DEFRAG, ADWARE, SPYBOT and I have
closed any uneccassary programs from runningin the background.
I have
1 Gig ram
Nivida 6600 GT 256 mb
350 watt power supply
3 hdd,
2 DVD Writers
all patches and updates
Have uninstalled and reinstalled the two games
Clean fans,
Made sure Heat sink was clean.
Computer is just over a year old.
unchecked Auto boot
ran PC Doctor, all is fine
Went to Device Manager and made sure all drivers were good and no conflicts
decreased screen resolution of games
Games Run Fine in SAFE MODE so it has to be a driver or something.
I also have ARCSOFT SHOWBIZ DVD 2 and InterDVD 3 and they will freeze up
during Tranbscoding of movies yet I have copied many many DVDs onto other
DVDs and that Transcoding went fine.
Anyone with any ideas?
Thanks in advance
--
I Have forgotten so much of what I once knew.
"A Stranger is a Friend you haven''t met yet."
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