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Which component is causing this? reboots and BSOD

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January 31, 2003 2:32:04 AM

Hey all,

All of a sudden, one day (actually, right as I double clicked on the CNET download manager, I don't know if that's related or not), my computer rebooted by itself. So I let it go back, after not more than 10 seconds, it rebooted again. after about 3 more I realized there was a problem. I left it alone for a while, and today I formatted the HD, hoping it was a virus of some sorts. Well, it complained it could not copy a file, I did "retry", it worked, then couldn't copy the next (this is during the winxp install). I hit retry 10 times then it BSOD'd. I rebooted, and it started that disk checking crap, but this is my 3rd time trying, I don't see why it would work now.

Is this caused by faulty ram perhaps??? or my HD??? Here is my system.

Asus A7V8X
256mb Micron PC2700 ram
Maxtor ATA 133 40gb hd
pioneer dvd, HP cdwriter, sony monitor, gf2mx vid card, etc etc...

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January 31, 2003 5:45:53 AM

Try underclocking it to 100MHz bus speed. If that cures the problem, start trying to figure out what can't take the extra speed. Most likely a dip in voltage, or a memory error.

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January 31, 2003 9:17:09 AM

Could be memory, suffered the same problem's myself with BSOD's etc. Locked my machine up that many times that it trashed a HD. Could you maybe borrow or beg some ram from a friend to see?

As for the file copy, I had that too (I am Mr Unlucky!). Errored during OS setup file copy at various times. That turned out to be faulty mobo.

First thing to do is check the ram. It's the quickest and easiest step. Like I say, try and borrow a stick and see if that helps. Take it from there.
Let us know how you get on!
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January 31, 2003 12:03:26 PM

Before you start replacing parts...trouble shoot your problems by removing everything not necessary to boot...sound card, modems, etc...now boot, see if it clears anything up...if not try booting in safe mode and see if it still reboots....if it doesnt then you could put your money on it being hardware/driver related because it will not load device drivers during a safe boot....if it does then you could start pointing at the power supply, memory (which it could possibly be).....
Also go and clear your cmos back to defaults or just load bios defaults and boot with the most conservative setup you can as crash mentioned try lowering the fsb and now boot....and so on until you pin point your problem
January 31, 2003 1:51:14 PM

Sounds like a bad case of memory failure. Run Memtest.


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