random restartation

[sir_inferno]

lo guys.

previous motherboard and psu frazzled out so got new ones.

got an asus mobo, amd cpu, and generic (hooray!) psu

when i boot into xp, it works fine for 5-15 minutes before a restart. i decided to set the "show me the errors" thing, and indeed i got the bsod, with some random IRQ_not_EQUAL or some rubbish...

tried chkdsk'ing a million times, did one of those "repair" installs on windows, did a defrag just for fun, nothing helped.

now, the crazy thing is, if i go into safe mode, it works fine...doesn't crash....works absolutely fine...

it's not a hardware fault (trust me)

so i'm just wondering...is it a directly windows related problem, or is it a file allocation table weirdness problem?

(it's probably worth mentioning that earlier i had a file on C: that said "size: 8gigs size on drive: 20mb"...got rid of that...)

cheers guys

[sir_inferno]

which would make sense since it works in safe mode...k...cheers, will go about updating drivers and what not

[sir_inferno]

Piru wrote:
memtest86+ is quite handy tool as it can be booted off the CD-ROM in seconds and doesn't require reinstall or anything. Whenever you have problems, first run memtest to see if it's memory related.

on sending one of those funny error messages to microsoft, they actually provided me with a memory checking tool...

that didn't find any errors...regardless, just ran memtest for about an hour, 5 passes no errors...seems like crucial is still good  :-)

[sir_inferno]

X-ray wrote:
It can also be hardware.

yep...but tbh it's not too likely...(i hope so anyway)

psu is new so it should be buggered, motherboard is also new so it should be fine, windows doesn't crash when using cpu burn-in so i assume the processor is fine, hard drive via SMART says it's fine, and donno about graphics card...

meh...i think it's time to format the c: partition and reinstall...thanks neway guys

[sir_inferno]

cheers guys...will try updating the bios and subsequently fiddling around with it...

Homer wrote:
I think it will be better to actually get some detailed feedback from SMART instead of just 'OK' !!

indeed i already use speedfan  :-) everything bar one thing on good and one on normal is "very good". 90% fitness/performance weirdness...i also ran "spinrite" (grc.com) and it didn't correct anything (it also has some nice smart analysis...just note pretty colour bars like speedfan  :-) )

well i was hoping to get away with only formatting the c: partition with windows on it...but the errors are coming back...albeit much less frequently...i'll try the other stuff first...but probably best to bung in a puppy linux cd and backup some stuff first lol