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I recently put together an Intel Pentium machine and installed WinXP
SP1 without any difficulty at all.The machine (see specs below) runs
really well; the only problem is that it frequently, without any
warning, just reboots itself. This happens about a half-dozen times a
day and doesn't seem to occur when the processor is heavily loaded. It
can happen when the processor is very active or when it is just
sitting there doing nothing.
Specs: ASUS P4c 800E with 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 2 GB of DDR RAM from
Crucial, ATI Radeon All in Wonder 9800, Western Digital 120 GB SATA
hard drives x 2, in an Enlight midtower case with 2 DVD writers (One
Plextor, one Pioneer)
It happens with all of the software I have loaded, not any one
particular piece of software. The software is nothing weird, just
WinXP, MS Office XP, Photoshop and some DVD authoring things like
Premiere. No games or obscure apps on this machine.
At first this smelled like thermal shutdown to me because of the fast
proceesor, so I invested in every type of fan (well not really). I put
in a couple of extra case fans with the airflow directed over the CPU
and video board and out the machine. ASUS Probe reported CPU temps of
high 40's. Then I added this huge big aftermarket CPU fan with
Ceramique thermal grease (sorry, don't remember the brand) and the CPU
temp is always between 38 and 41 degrees C. The Motherboard T is
usually around 32 C.
I don't know what the next step in troubleshooting would be. I've
never run across this type of problem before. My initial reaction is
that this is hardware related and not Windows related, but I'm not
sure.
I keep getting that damned "MS Windows - The system has recovered from
a serious error - send error report to MS" every time after it
reboots. When I look into the error log, all it has is "The following
files will be included in this error report C:
windows\minidump\mini050104-04.dmp and C:\documents and
settings....\temp\wer5f.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml" Of couse, I cannot
decipher these.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before? Any ideas how I can
troubleshoot it?
Thanks
BingBong
I recently put together an Intel Pentium machine and installed WinXP
SP1 without any difficulty at all.The machine (see specs below) runs
really well; the only problem is that it frequently, without any
warning, just reboots itself. This happens about a half-dozen times a
day and doesn't seem to occur when the processor is heavily loaded. It
can happen when the processor is very active or when it is just
sitting there doing nothing.
Specs: ASUS P4c 800E with 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 2 GB of DDR RAM from
Crucial, ATI Radeon All in Wonder 9800, Western Digital 120 GB SATA
hard drives x 2, in an Enlight midtower case with 2 DVD writers (One
Plextor, one Pioneer)
It happens with all of the software I have loaded, not any one
particular piece of software. The software is nothing weird, just
WinXP, MS Office XP, Photoshop and some DVD authoring things like
Premiere. No games or obscure apps on this machine.
At first this smelled like thermal shutdown to me because of the fast
proceesor, so I invested in every type of fan (well not really). I put
in a couple of extra case fans with the airflow directed over the CPU
and video board and out the machine. ASUS Probe reported CPU temps of
high 40's. Then I added this huge big aftermarket CPU fan with
Ceramique thermal grease (sorry, don't remember the brand) and the CPU
temp is always between 38 and 41 degrees C. The Motherboard T is
usually around 32 C.
I don't know what the next step in troubleshooting would be. I've
never run across this type of problem before. My initial reaction is
that this is hardware related and not Windows related, but I'm not
sure.
I keep getting that damned "MS Windows - The system has recovered from
a serious error - send error report to MS" every time after it
reboots. When I look into the error log, all it has is "The following
files will be included in this error report C:
windows\minidump\mini050104-04.dmp and C:\documents and
settings....\temp\wer5f.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml" Of couse, I cannot
decipher these.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before? Any ideas how I can
troubleshoot it?
Thanks
BingBong