Windows spontaneous restart

[drehg]

Hi -

My sister has a desktop that is restarting spontaneously soon after she turns it on. It goes from seemingly to run normally, to just restarting.

Looking at the error console, there is this mini-dump... sorry, not sure what to use to decode where the error might be:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 7/13/2008
Time: 8:21:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: TKFALEY
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 00008630, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 f74f6ec8.

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Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 38 36 33 30 2c 20 008630,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 66 37 34 66 00, f74f
0050: 36 65 63 38 6ec8

 

[woody1191]

0xD1 errors are caused by bad device drivers, Faulty or Mismatched RAM or a damaged pagefile. Could you post the Minidump as a attachment in your next post so i could see what driver maybe causing the problem.

You could start by ruling RAM out.
Download the pre-built version of Memtest86 (Link Below) and burn it onto a CD using ISO Recorder (Link Below) after this boot off the CD and start the test going and let it run for 3-5 hours (Minimum of 7 Passes) or Overnight which is best.

Memtest86 - http://www.memtest.org/
ISO Recorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm