All my games crash after a level loads

[auzzyboy]

Alright, whenever I play a game, whether it be Far Cry or Half-Life 2, my entire computer reboots, no blue screen....when i log back on, it says the a system error has occured. I have reinstalled Windows XP home 3 times already, ran checkdisk, bought a new mobo, have ATI Radeon 9550, 8.6 driver version.......1 gb of ddr1 memory, western digital Caviar 160.0 GB, kingston memory, AMD athlon 3400+ motherboard, 2.45 ghz..........the error in the system event viewer says:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: ACEEventLogSource
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 7/27/2008
Time: 9:02:37 PM
User: N/A
Computer: THESHED
Description:
0000000003: 2008-07-27 21:02:37:250 Exception <atixcode.dll>: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {981145A7-E08E-48F3-A1C4-52C28BCAAAF9} failed due to the following error: 80040154.
Exception Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.TransCode.Graphics.Shared.TC_Component::CheckTrancodeComObject processID:01060 threadIDCCCThreadNew:Wizard) domainNameccc.exe ) assemblyNameCLI.Aspect.TransCode.Graphics.Shared, Version=2.0.3005.17556, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)

and........

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ati2mtag
Event Category: CRT
Event ID: 45062
Date: 7/27/2008
Time: 9:01:30 PM
User: N/A
Computer: THESHED
Description:
CRT invalid display type
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 5a 00 ......Z.
0008: 2c 00 00 00 06 b0 00 c0 ,....°.À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

and..............
Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 7/27/2008
Time: 9:02:45 PM
User: N/A
Computer: THESHED
Description:
Error code 1000008e, parameter1 80000003, parameter2 bf27d84c, parameter3 a72eeab0, parameter4 00000000.


Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 38 1000008
0020: 65 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d e Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 38 30 eters 80
0030: 30 30 30 30 30 33 2c 20 000003,
0038: 62 66 32 37 64 38 34 63 bf27d84c
0040: 2c 20 61 37 32 65 65 61 , a72eea
0048: 62 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 b0, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

any help would be great!
thanks

 

[EXCellR8]

Alright, first off you need to disable "Automatic Restart" by going to Control Panel --> System --> Advanced Tab --> Settings button under Startup and Recovery. Under System Failure, remove the check next to Automatic Restart. Now, instead of a hard restart, whatever is causing the problem will throw a blue screen. This may give you a better idea of what is happening. Also, it would be extremely useful to attach the corresponding minidump to this thread. With that, members who have debugging tools can read the dump and tell you exactly what is causing the error.