Hi, how are you?
I've been having this problem with my sister's computer for a while. I built her PC myself, and for a while it ran great until it began rebooting randomly. After trying to figure out what the problem was and reinstalling Windows XP three times, I'm still left utterly clueless.
The first set of error codes I was getting were 0x1000008e, which point to a multitude of things, bad RAM being foremost, and other issues such as reading from NTFS volumes. I've ran memtest several times, and no errors have come up. This is my third install of XP.
Sometimes under moderate stress the system reboots (it skips the blue screen and just reboots, but I read the details in the error code as well as examining the minidump), sometimes barely any, and sometimes while playing her favorite games, Age of Empires III and the Sims 2.
And the weird part is, tonight, the computer didn't crash when put under my non-scientific 'stress test' (four youtube tabs open in firefox, each playing videos, and playing a song in iTunes), but when left to load the Sims, it crashed, leaving a completely different error code behind.
I've left the system specs below if that affects anything, and I've also attached two minidumps, one with 0x8e and the other with 0x03 being the first error code given. Any help would be kindly and greatly appreciated.
PS the kicker is that my debugger 'is not using the correct symbols,' and I haven't figured out how to change that, either.
System specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 2.8 GHz
960 MB RAM (thats news to me, yesterday it was displaying that I had 1022 or something like that -- I really have 1GB installed, I'm going to investigate that)
200GB Western Digital HD
nVidia GeForce MX 4000
Asus p4r800vm motherboard (with newly flashed BIOS, I did that Thursday)
1 CD ROM drive
1 CD RW drive
Running Windows XP Home SP3
Thank you, again!
~Scyther
I've been having this problem with my sister's computer for a while. I built her PC myself, and for a while it ran great until it began rebooting randomly. After trying to figure out what the problem was and reinstalling Windows XP three times, I'm still left utterly clueless.
The first set of error codes I was getting were 0x1000008e, which point to a multitude of things, bad RAM being foremost, and other issues such as reading from NTFS volumes. I've ran memtest several times, and no errors have come up. This is my third install of XP.
Sometimes under moderate stress the system reboots (it skips the blue screen and just reboots, but I read the details in the error code as well as examining the minidump), sometimes barely any, and sometimes while playing her favorite games, Age of Empires III and the Sims 2.
And the weird part is, tonight, the computer didn't crash when put under my non-scientific 'stress test' (four youtube tabs open in firefox, each playing videos, and playing a song in iTunes), but when left to load the Sims, it crashed, leaving a completely different error code behind.
I've left the system specs below if that affects anything, and I've also attached two minidumps, one with 0x8e and the other with 0x03 being the first error code given. Any help would be kindly and greatly appreciated.
PS the kicker is that my debugger 'is not using the correct symbols,' and I haven't figured out how to change that, either.
System specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 2.8 GHz
960 MB RAM (thats news to me, yesterday it was displaying that I had 1022 or something like that -- I really have 1GB installed, I'm going to investigate that)
200GB Western Digital HD
nVidia GeForce MX 4000
Asus p4r800vm motherboard (with newly flashed BIOS, I did that Thursday)
1 CD ROM drive
1 CD RW drive
Running Windows XP Home SP3
Thank you, again!
~Scyther
