my first post i do apologise if this is wrong place etc
i've done some reading first including the sticky but still have a question or two.
some background: had windows 2000 sp4 on pc for approx 18 months, it was getting very bogged down, losing codecs (couldn't watch things), system was getting full then it started rebooting while using either nero (would burn cd's fine until use cdtext then system reboot), then tmpgenc and divx encoder usage kept rebooting system....got to point where system was in rebooting loop....unfortunately i just decided to format and didn't know at the time about minidumps or anything so have no info pre format. at time of format someone mentioned i may have heating problem....they showed me how to look into bios and the temp was approx mid 70's Celsius. they cleaned out the pc and the fans best they could but temp only dropped to 70C with side left off.
have formatted onto windows xp sp2, everything fine for almost a month then system starts rebooting again but this time while only using soulseek. also freezing first which it didn't do on win2000. spent some time looking at SS forums and it seemed netgear fa311 ethernet card was culprit, upgraded driver and touch wood have no reboots for two days.
but in looking at this site i downloaded two cpu temp monitors - hmonitor and motherboard monitor. both say my system is running approx 54C while bios still says approx 70C...is my bios wrong?
i think overall the system is still too hot and i haven't put the encoding programs back in yet to see if they push the system to reboot.
i've never upgraded my bios and wondering if i should....and looking at the soltek site there seems to be a few upgrades do i just pick the latest one?
my minidump eventviewer info for latest windows running is
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000400, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xf8553a96). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini010306-03.dmp.
i unticked the always reboot button and my last bsod had driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
but i'm fairly sure the netgear is at fault there.
please let me know if i should add anything else....i have system specs on my profile
thanks
i've done some reading first including the sticky but still have a question or two.
some background: had windows 2000 sp4 on pc for approx 18 months, it was getting very bogged down, losing codecs (couldn't watch things), system was getting full then it started rebooting while using either nero (would burn cd's fine until use cdtext then system reboot), then tmpgenc and divx encoder usage kept rebooting system....got to point where system was in rebooting loop....unfortunately i just decided to format and didn't know at the time about minidumps or anything so have no info pre format. at time of format someone mentioned i may have heating problem....they showed me how to look into bios and the temp was approx mid 70's Celsius. they cleaned out the pc and the fans best they could but temp only dropped to 70C with side left off.
have formatted onto windows xp sp2, everything fine for almost a month then system starts rebooting again but this time while only using soulseek. also freezing first which it didn't do on win2000. spent some time looking at SS forums and it seemed netgear fa311 ethernet card was culprit, upgraded driver and touch wood have no reboots for two days.
but in looking at this site i downloaded two cpu temp monitors - hmonitor and motherboard monitor. both say my system is running approx 54C while bios still says approx 70C...is my bios wrong?
i think overall the system is still too hot and i haven't put the encoding programs back in yet to see if they push the system to reboot.
i've never upgraded my bios and wondering if i should....and looking at the soltek site there seems to be a few upgrades do i just pick the latest one?
my minidump eventviewer info for latest windows running is
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000400, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xf8553a96). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini010306-03.dmp.
i unticked the always reboot button and my last bsod had driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
but i'm fairly sure the netgear is at fault there.
please let me know if i should add anything else....i have system specs on my profile
thanks