Random Crrashes

Post by **corpse** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:31 am

I have a newish computer and I am getting random crashes where the computer reboots and then when it boots up it says, Windows has recovered from a serious error....etc..

Windows XP home, sp2, norton 2006.

I know its not much information, but does it sound like a windows thing or a hardware thing?

Post by **Foo** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:43 am

Either. Check temperatures.

Post by **Captain** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:17 am

Go to your Control Panel and click on System.

Then go Advanced

Startup and Recovery Options and disable Automatic Restarts.

Then post the info that comes from the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Many things can cause this and thus you begin the long and arduous journey of finding the culprit.

Or you could shove it back to whoever you bought it from and demand a replacement...or a free repair.

Post by **corpse** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:14 am

Temp is fine..around 29C both system board and CPU

While system is running it comes up with thsi Windows has recovered from a serious error thing

In event log, application it shows this:

Red X and System Error beside it.

Error code 00000019

parameter1 00000020

parameter2 85013aF8

parameter3 85013b10

parameter4 0a030008

Oh, the Event ID is 1003 and it says the Symbolic name is

ER_KRNLCRASH_LOG

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:29 am

download the iso, burn it on to a CD-r, Boot from it and leave it run for a night.

http://www.memtest.org/

it will test your memory like HELL and see if it comes up with Errors...

also what power supply does that computer have? and what is the spec's of the computer? ( i.e. CPU, Ram, Mobo, Videocard, PSU, Etc.. and i need details. )

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:54 am

Memtest will also work from within Windows.

Post by **corpse** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:28 am

AMD Sempron 2800+, 512 Ram, 450W power supply

When I first start memtest, it shows "check all unused Ram". Is this fine or should I change it to 512.............or type all Ram.

Onboard video and sound

Post by **corpse** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:25 pm

Ran memtest all night and it shows 0 errors.

Post by **axbaby** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:26 pm

enable system restore .. then update all drivers and see if Norton has an update.

for some reason i blame Norton .. don't know why i just have a feeling.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:58 pm

Tormentius wrote:Memtest will also work from within Windows.

i know it can run within windows, but that just isent the same.

windows will claim a hunk of ram thus you will be unable to test it.

Dedicated memtest+ > *

Post by **Captain** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:30 pm

axbaby wrote:for some reason i blame Norton .. don't know why i just have a feeling.

:icon14:

Post by **corpse** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:21 pm

I got fed up and formatted and am now re-installing.

However, there were a bunch of yellow exclamation marks in event viewer related to tcpip. I dont know if this could be related.

The computer is only about a month or 2 old so there insnt a bunch of junk on it yet.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:25 am

what does it say? Maximum allow connections reached?

Post by **ALLiED** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:56 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:what does it say? Maximum allow connections reached?

I get that sometimes when Utorrent is running.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:49 pm

windows XP SP2 has a TCP/IP "Fix" that will only allow so meny TCP connections to try and stop Torrents.

There are tons of patches to get 1000 Tcip connections as the max.. rather then the 100 or so that it will allow now

Post by **corpse** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:43 pm

That must be it. Thanks

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