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Computer Randomly Restarts

Discussion in 'Windows OS' started by ryboto, Jun 3, 2006.

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  1. ryboto Newcomer, in training

    ok, here's an update..
    not sure why those minidumps are corrupt, the windows debugging utility i have on my pc reads them fine. I HAVE TESTED MY RAM for 9.5 hours with memtest86...please remember this. 26 passes. no errors.

    Last night I believe my pagefile became corrupt due to the persistent blue screens. Even after I removed my wireless card, it was greeted with the page file blue screen. So, i deleted it, and made a new one this morning, and then played FEAR for 3 hours on and off. During this, the wirleless card was physically installed, but I did not install the drivers for it. I will continue to use my pc in this manner until i see a blue screen. If i don't, then I know it's a driver conflict. I just find it odd, as the system was fine two weeks ago. I hate my roomates. Regardless, the system appears stable as long as I do not install the drivers for the wireless card.

    As far as the atx 2.0 specification, doesn't it just require 2 or more 12V rails, and a pci-e connector? my motherboard doesn't require a pci-e connector, it just uses a standard 4-pin molex. Maybe some of the issues are psu related...who knows.
  2. ryboto Newcomer, in training

    Last night, I reinstalled windows on my newer drive. The install was very smooth, 20 minutes was all it took. Installed the wireless card first. The only other hardware I had drivers installed for was the video card. The system was stable for 3 hours, and then i decided to install sound drivers. The install asked me to restart my computer, i chose to restart it later. Then, suddenly, i get a blue screen, an irq not less than or equal, pointing at usbport.sys as the culprit. I have not had time to test the pc without the wireless card installed. Currently, I have the wireless installed in a separate computer, and I'm waiting to see if it becomes unstable.
  3. ryboto Newcomer, in training

    so, i was using my new install of windows for 2 hours, and then, bsod, page fault error. Then it happened again when I was using firefox, and was met with an irq error, here are all the dumps i've had with this install.(renamed as .zip)
  4. ryboto Newcomer, in training

    well, I'm using the wireless card now in a second computer, and it seems to be fine. I've been using it for almost an hour. So, I've basically narrowed it down to the motherboard or cpu. I'm going to try one more thing, however, disabling my primary IDE controller. This is basically the one variable that I just realized I didn't change after I cleared cmos. It was disabled prior to the installation of the wireless card, and there are no devices on it. If that still doesn't work, I'm going to remove the optical drives completely, and see if there are any issues.
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