Spontaneous reboots yet again

[Guest]

Thanks to Mark Ferguson and "Frodo" for the previous replies. I have tried
all their suggestions but still no joy.

While I'm not getting "reboots" any more, I am still constantly freezing,
and not just the Application, XP hangs as well, no way out except a power
down reboot.

I have tested my memory countless times, it's good even bought new RAM,
installed it, and it still freezes. The freeze is ALWAYS during periods of
HIGH processor activity (never freezes sitting around doing nothing, or
reading email or doing word processing). The crashes are always during
operations (like Premier or After Effects rendering, or 3D Animations renders
when the processor level is near to 100% for extended periods) of high
processor activity, or high-disk activity.

The event log always ends up with the following message just before the
freeze:

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Windows saved user THOMS-PC\Thom registry while an application or service
was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's
registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no
longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

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

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Just for review, all this started after I installed SP2, but I've tried
uninstalling (and testing, still freezes) and re-installing (still freezes).

Anyone have any ideas?

- Thom Walker

 

[D.Currie]

If it's freezing during processor-intensive tasks, my guess would be that
it's overheating. The error message is telling you that the shut-down wasn't
clean -- something was using the registry as it was being saved, so it
didn't get unloaded from memory. It's not the problem, it's a side-effect of
the unplanned shutdown. Unless of course, that error pops up when you shut
the computer down normally as well.

Your computer might have temperature monitoring software that you can see in
Windows, or you can go the old-fashioned way and open the case, make sure
fans are all spinning freely, and feel the heatsink when it's running. It
should get warm, but you shouldn't burn yourself.

Also, it might not be the processor; it might be the general internal
temperature that's the problem, so make sure exhaust fans are working, and
the fan in the power supply is working, too. If it suddenly works better
with the case off and cooler room are in there, you've got the first clue.

 

[Martin]

If it's freezing during processor-intensive tasks, my guess would be that
it's overheating. The error message is telling you that the shut-down wasn't
clean -- something was using the registry as it was being saved, so it
didn't get unloaded from memory. It's not the problem, it's a side-effect of
the unplanned shutdown. Unless of course, that error pops up when you shut
the computer down normally as well.

Your computer might have temperature monitoring software that you can see in
Windows, or you can go the old-fashioned way and open the case, make sure
fans are all spinning freely, and feel the heatsink when it's running. It
should get warm, but you shouldn't burn yourself.

Also, it might not be the processor; it might be the general internal
temperature that's the problem, so make sure exhaust fans are working, and
the fan in the power supply is working, too. If it suddenly works better
with the case off and cooler room are in there, you've got the first clue.

That sounds a fair idea of whats going on, why not get MBM form here
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html

and see what the CPU Temp is when its loaded.

Martin

 

[Guest]

DUUUHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Boy do I feel stupid. I've had heat problem before and had checked weeks
ago to see if that was what this was, but only with the cover off.
Basically, I had cable drapped in the box so that, when the cover was put
back on, the cover pressed the cable into the CPU fan and stopped it. It
ran fine with the cover off, while I played with it, but froze when I put it
back together.

Thanks to all who replied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Thom Walker