Spontaneous Reboots

[Rick Ethridge]

My downstairs roommate has an Athlon64 system comprized of an
Asus K8V motherboard (1.5 gig ram) with an Nvidia 5200
video card and 400 gig drive capacity. It will
spontaneously reboot reporting a driver issue. I shutdown the
RAID array in BIOS and have installed the latest drivers.
I've noticed a minor bug with the built-in 3Com 3C940 NIC
as it sometimes takes awhile to initiate. Should my
roommate return his system as bad? What can I do to assist?

Rick Ethridge

 

[Guest]

Hi

Right click My Computer/properties/Advance/Start up & Recovery/click the Setting button
in the system failure area, unckeck the box "automatically restart", clcik OK then reboot
BSOD may occur, view the messages and post back

Pete


----- Rick Ethridge wrote: ----

My downstairs roommate has an Athlon64 system comprized of an
Asus K8V motherboard (1.5 gig ram) with an Nvidia 520
video card and 400 gig drive capacity. It wil
spontaneously reboot reporting a driver issue. I shutdown the
RAID array in BIOS and have installed the latest drivers
I've noticed a minor bug with the built-in 3Com 3C940 NI
as it sometimes takes awhile to initiate. Should m
roommate return his system as bad? What can I do to assist

Rick Ethridg

 

[Fitz]

If the error you are getting is "driver stuck in infinite loop" (look in
Computer Administration>Event Viewer)
then it may not be a problem with the video- it may be a memory issue. I'm
about to find out- I am replacing my Kingston HyperX PC 3200 with Mushkin
Level 1 Black PC 3500 because of random reboots and the event I mentioned
above (also and AMD64 system). If this is the same error you are getting, I
will post back and let you know if it fixed the problem (obviously, it's not
a cheap fix). In the meantime, I would suggest your friend disable any "Best
Performance" options in the BIOS, and possibly relax the memory timings to
see if the problem continues.

Fitz