Re: XP Media Center 2005 reboots on it's own with NO error message

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Steve,

The telling part would be to see if it fails on some very graphic games. If
so, that tells me that once your graphics card starts doing a lot of work
(i.e., DirectX in Media Center, 3D in games), then the failure happens. That
could still point to a power supply being normally big enough but the extra
voltage draw from the higher work level may make it fail.

Could also be memory, or could be memory on your graphics adapter. For your
system, if you have two RAM sticks, try taking one out and see if it
happens, then swap them and try again...

If you have another graphics adapter you could try, that might also point to
a solution.

Not sure what else to try.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Steve" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dana,

Thanks for the attempt. the case is open currently, all fans are clean,
swapped out the PS with a known good, no difference...

thoughts?

BTW, it seems to only do this IN media center. it can sit on the standard
XP desktop all day.

Steve

"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:

That sounds like a hardware error of some kind, either power supply or
motherboard. Or maybe a heat issue? Could be a heat issue with your
display
adapter...try opening the case and making sure none of your fans are
clogged
with dust. If its all clean, my next choice would be the power supply...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Steve" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, this one is wierd.

Media Center 2005 loads fine, runs for days as long as we do not start
the
"media center". Once we do, ANY program (even view slideshow) will run
for
between 10-20 minutes then the system just reboots.

I have already turned off the "automatically restart" Not only does
it
still restart on it's own, but I have checked ALL of the event logs.
NOTHING.

NO error message displayed. (no blue screen)
NO "recovered from serious error" after reboot
NO event logs

OK... help?





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