Hello all 
,
it has been weeks since my last post here.
im back to my hometown for another quarter-year holiday...
yet i got one annoying problem with my close cousin desktop which is about 3-4years old. the system specs is:
Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHZ 512KB L2 Cache (i don;t know what is the "name")
256MB DDR RAM x 2
80GB IDE Maxtor HDD
LG DVD-RAM drive
Asrock P4VM800 mobo.
Windows XP Sp2 Pro 32bit
the power supply is crappy, so i did give another new power supply to gear it up. here is the problem:
once in a while the system will freezes and shutdown itself eventually. No BSOD present, just a notifying windows saying that
"system has recovered from serious error, send / don't send report"
there's minidump present. however i cant upload it right because the whole desktop is in his house of course and i cant get internet connection in the cpu location.
changing the power supply seems to give no effect to the problem.
i thought this might because of PSU or lack of thermal gel present. so i did open the CPU and re-paste cpu thermal gel because the previous one was going to dry. (similar problem happen to my prev p4 desktop too last year)
since i cant figure out the problem, i went to the "camera and scanner wizard"
strangerly, when the wizard start the camera and prompt me to click "take picture" the computer instantly off like usual and it restarted with the old message again, saying that the system has recovered from serious error.
the next boot, i try to went to the same window again. this time, it's not shutted down. but the computer freezes and even capslock does not lit when pressed.
im still curious, i did open the wizard one more time, so this time it shutted down at the different window. then i ask my cousin, the owner, when does this kind of thing start happening... he said it has started from long time ago., perhaps about 2 years before. but last time it's not frequently. maybe once a week or less. he told me that previously the motherboard was ASUS, but somehow when he sent it for repair the repairman charged him for new motherboard saying that mobo is spoilt.
(sometimes, i left the computer playing a song on windows media player. minutes after computer is either shutted down, or restarted, or freezes.)
today i remembered that maybe BIOS update is significant for the computer health. soon im drivin to his house to install the new bios update. im not sure whether the system can be cured. however, i'll bring back minidump later.
in the meantime, do you guys know what seems to be the problem?
before that, i should say thank you for reading the post. hope i don't open a post in the wrong thread category... Thanks
,it has been weeks since my last post here.
im back to my hometown for another quarter-year holiday...
yet i got one annoying problem with my close cousin desktop which is about 3-4years old. the system specs is:
Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHZ 512KB L2 Cache (i don;t know what is the "name")
256MB DDR RAM x 2
80GB IDE Maxtor HDD
LG DVD-RAM drive
Asrock P4VM800 mobo.
Windows XP Sp2 Pro 32bit
the power supply is crappy, so i did give another new power supply to gear it up. here is the problem:
once in a while the system will freezes and shutdown itself eventually. No BSOD present, just a notifying windows saying that
"system has recovered from serious error, send / don't send report"
there's minidump present. however i cant upload it right because the whole desktop is in his house of course and i cant get internet connection in the cpu location.
changing the power supply seems to give no effect to the problem.
i thought this might because of PSU or lack of thermal gel present. so i did open the CPU and re-paste cpu thermal gel because the previous one was going to dry. (similar problem happen to my prev p4 desktop too last year)
since i cant figure out the problem, i went to the "camera and scanner wizard"
strangerly, when the wizard start the camera and prompt me to click "take picture" the computer instantly off like usual and it restarted with the old message again, saying that the system has recovered from serious error.
the next boot, i try to went to the same window again. this time, it's not shutted down. but the computer freezes and even capslock does not lit when pressed.
im still curious, i did open the wizard one more time, so this time it shutted down at the different window. then i ask my cousin, the owner, when does this kind of thing start happening... he said it has started from long time ago., perhaps about 2 years before. but last time it's not frequently. maybe once a week or less. he told me that previously the motherboard was ASUS, but somehow when he sent it for repair the repairman charged him for new motherboard saying that mobo is spoilt.
(sometimes, i left the computer playing a song on windows media player. minutes after computer is either shutted down, or restarted, or freezes.)
today i remembered that maybe BIOS update is significant for the computer health. soon im drivin to his house to install the new bios update. im not sure whether the system can be cured. however, i'll bring back minidump later.
in the meantime, do you guys know what seems to be the problem?
before that, i should say thank you for reading the post. hope i don't open a post in the wrong thread category... Thanks
