Hi
I've been having problems for a couple of months with my 2nd (older lower spec - see user profile) pc. It has been rebooting itself at irregular intervals. This first started when I installed a small Barbie game on it for my daughter. having crashed halfway through the first run it produced lots of error 1003 system errors and rebooted itself at regular intervals. I thought that this may be a hdd issue as I was using a pretty old 40gb hdd I had - I ran chkdsk and I think it found errors and corrected them but the problem continued. I assumed that there was a problem with the hdd still and gave up on it. About a week ago I replaced the hdd with a newer 120gb hdd and theredidn't seem to be any problems for a few days. Today I installed call of duty and the install seemed to go fine. when I ran it it told me I needed to upgrade my video driver so I did from the nvidia site from 5.xx to 7.xx. when I ran the gam ethough it crashed and caused my system to reboot again like it did with the previous hdd. This makes me think it is a problem with my hardware (maybe the video card??) rather than the hdd problem
but I'm not sure how to figure out what the problem is. I've attached 3 minidumps + 4 system error messages from event viewer. Would be really grateful if you could help me findout what the problem is + fix it. Thanks
I've been having problems for a couple of months with my 2nd (older lower spec - see user profile) pc. It has been rebooting itself at irregular intervals. This first started when I installed a small Barbie game on it for my daughter. having crashed halfway through the first run it produced lots of error 1003 system errors and rebooted itself at regular intervals. I thought that this may be a hdd issue as I was using a pretty old 40gb hdd I had - I ran chkdsk and I think it found errors and corrected them but the problem continued. I assumed that there was a problem with the hdd still and gave up on it. About a week ago I replaced the hdd with a newer 120gb hdd and theredidn't seem to be any problems for a few days. Today I installed call of duty and the install seemed to go fine. when I ran it it told me I needed to upgrade my video driver so I did from the nvidia site from 5.xx to 7.xx. when I ran the gam ethough it crashed and caused my system to reboot again like it did with the previous hdd. This makes me think it is a problem with my hardware (maybe the video card??) rather than the hdd problem
but I'm not sure how to figure out what the problem is. I've attached 3 minidumps + 4 system error messages from event viewer. Would be really grateful if you could help me findout what the problem is + fix it. Thanks
