self reboot, no boot user settings screen, cant defrag D:/

[paulmars]

last night computer rebooted by itself many times. I tried to scan C and
D for errors and it rebooted several ties. Finally I got all the way
thru the error scans and it found nothing,,then I defragged C:/, but
each time I tried to defrag D:/ it rebooted or just stopped during the
defraging. Each attempt to run virus scan or spybot scan resulted in a
reboot during the scan.

Finally I cold booted and all has been fine. I then cold booted again
after 4 hours and all it fine. I then warm booted after about 2 hours
and all is fine. All fine means that it is not rebooting by itself and
everything is working as it should, except...

When I try to defrag D:/ it says defragging, but nothing happens. Also
the user settings blue screen during boot is no longer there. I noticed
that last night during the self reboots and it remains now. However as
far as I can tell all my user settings are intact.

Ideas?

paul

 

[Dave Patrick]

More than likely hardware failure and or driver corruption but check the
event log for clues.

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[Harry Ohrn]

Try downloading and running the Memory Diagnostic tool found here
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
Your problem might be related to faulty RAM.

Another issue could be related to heat. Check to ensure the fan for your CPU
heatsink and the fan for your powersupply are running. You will need to
remove the cover from the computer case to see if the CPU fan is running.
Feel the vent at the back of the case where the power supply plugs in to
ensure there is air flow coming out of the powersupply.

 

[paulmars]

several event errors last night during the many warm reboots, but no
errors since.

First:
DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting
to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

5 seconds later:
DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting
to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the
server:
{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Four second later:
The DHCP Client service depends on the NetBios over Tcpip service which
failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

at the same time:
The TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service depends on the AFD Networking Support
Environment service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

and:
The IPSEC Services service depends on the IPSEC driver service which
failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

and:
The TrueVector Internet Monitor service depends on the vsdatant service
which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

and:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
AFD
AVG Anti-Spyware Driver
Avg7Core
Avg7RsW
Avg7RsXP
Fips
IPSec
MRxSmb
NetBIOS
NetBT
Processor
RasAcd
Rdbss
Tcpip
vsdatant

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[paulmars]

diag no errors

Both fans running. PS feels cool. Temp shutdown is set below the max cpu
temp and it has never triggered.

No self reboots since the cold boot, last night.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can ignore the 'safe mode' boot errors. Look at the errors logged when
the BSOD occurred.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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