Shuttung down and crashing

[Guest]

I just re-installed Xp Professional on my system. (It took eight times before
it was right, but it's on there now.) For the past couple days while in
operation, the computer crashes, I see a blue screen and then it shuts down.
No rhyme or reason to it. Just now I was feeding in a line in to my sound
card and recording. 10 minutes into the session the computer just shut down.
No blue screen, no warning, just a black screen, the beep of the computer and
the bootup begins. What's wrong with the system and how can I troubleshoot it?

 

[PC_Doc]

Hey there ... Couple of things could be wrong ... First do you have enough
memory ??? It could be your memory ... Also might be your video card , try
getting the latest driver for your video card .... But before you do either
try scanning your computer for virus or trojans , have a look at this sites
and do a scan from some of them and see if they find anything >>>>

How to use Disk Cleanup >>> try this first
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

Lavasoft AdAware >>> this second
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

Spybot Search and Destroy >>> this third
http://www.safer-networking.net/en/download/index.html

SpywareBlaster >>> this fourth
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

Now if you have a anti virus program get the latest updates and perform a
scan ...

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://tinyurl.com/4ob9s

Okay after you have finish with that , try doing these options on your
computer as well

How to Defragment your hard drives http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848



How to scan your disks for errors http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265



Finally you can do more but see if anything comes out of the options above

 

[Jerry]

May be an overheat problem.
PC_Doc gave some good instructions but you may want to
check your fans. You didn't say how old the computer is
but I see a lot of fans gunked up with dust and crud
especially ones that are kept on or near the floor.

Take the side cover off, ground your finger on the power
supply box, look for dust, gently flip the CPU blade to
see if it turns freely, then turn on the machine and see
if the CPU fan goes right up to speed quietly. Carefully
check airflow with your hand. Also check power supply
fan from the outside (don't stick anything in there).

Jer

 

[Ken Blake]

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I just re-installed Xp Professional on my system. (It took eight
times
before it was right, but it's on there now.) For the past
couple days
while in operation, the computer crashes, I see a blue screen
and
then it shuts down. No rhyme or reason to it. Just now I was
feeding
in a line in to my sound card and recording. 10 minutes into
the
session the computer just shut down. No blue screen, no
warning, just
a black screen, the beep of the computer and the bootup begins.
What's wrong with the system and how can I troubleshoot it?

You are presumably blue-screening, and you are set to reboot
whenever that happens. Right-click My Computer, and choose
Properties. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and
Recovery. Under System failure, uncheck the box "Automatically
restart."



Now when the problem occurs again, you will get the blue screen
with diagnostic information. Post back with those details for
more help.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your input. Been trying to work through some of your suggestions,
including defragging my hard drive. Took about 5 hours. I'm funning on an
AMD2400 processor with 1G of RAM. I have two hard drives, a 120G serial and
160IDE. I built the system last year. Windows was corrupted (only showed part
of dialog boxes, with no way to repair) so I reformatted the hard drive and
reinstalled everything. I run a virus scan every night at 4 am, with AVG that
updates every night. I've been running Adaware, Spybot and Spyblaster on my
system. I did run the system check and it came out just fine. We'll see today
if it does the same thing.

Thanks again so very much!

 

[Guest]

Your post about the fan may be an issue. I moved the computer from on top of
a cart next to my desk to underneath the desk. I'll try to get more air to
it. Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

WOW. I didn't know you could do that. I'll remember that for next time. Could
save me lots of headaches and lost work. Thanks!

 

[Ken Blake]

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WOW. I didn't know you could do that. I'll remember that for
next
time. Could save me lots of headaches and lost work. Thanks!

You're welcome. Glad to help.

 

[Guest]

Well, it happened again last night. I woke this morning to a blue screen. The
technical info said:

*** STOPl 0x0000001A (0x00041284, 0xC5C86001, 0x00004038, 0xC0C00000)

It's computereeze to me. Any idea what it means or what is the cause?

LJM

 

[Malke]

Well, it happened again last night. I woke this morning to a blue
screen. The technical info said:

*** STOPl 0x0000001A (0x00041284, 0xC5C86001, 0x00004038, 0xC0C00000)

It's computereeze to me. Any idea what it means or what is the cause?

LJM

Here's the link to the Knowledge Base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=271955

This error usually means that your RAM (memory) is faulty. You can test
the RAM yourself by running Memtest86 from www.memtest86.com.
Obviously, you'll need to get the program from a working computer.
Either download the precompiled Windows binary and make a bootable
floppy with it, or use the .iso and make a bootable cd with it. To make
the latter, the machine on which you are doing this will need a cd
burner and third-party burning software. Making a bootable floppy might
be easier for you. In any case, boot your own machine with the media
you made. The test will run immediately. Allow it to run for an
extended time unless you get errors immediately. If you get errors,
replace the RAM.

If this seems like too much for you - and it's perfectly OK to admit if
it is - then take the machine to a good local shop (not a BestBuy or
CompUSA type of store) and have them test it for you and replace the
RAM if necessary.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Thanks. It happened two more times today, so I'll try it.

LJM

 

[Guest]

Got a question. How do I make a bootable CD. Everywhere I've looked, the CD
makes one to re-install XP. Same for 2000 or NT. I know ME doesn't
acknowledge NTFS, so I couldn't use that. Got any suggestions?

LJM

 

[R. McCarty]

Check here, under the Windows XP, Bootable CD listing:
http://bootdisk.com/
You can make a Win-9X/ME CD-R, but would need to add
a DOS level driver for NTFS access, such as ReadNTFS to
the Config/AutoExec - However, most allow read access only.