BoomBa_GoosE Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 okay, so everybody, ive been having this major problem for the longest time now and i am sick and tired of it. so basically, everytime i load something that i guess u can say takes an amount of memory? i ono. for example, sometimes when im on the web, or playing my mp3s, and especially when im watchin a video file such as anime or movies or whatever, and my computer jus restarts on its own. its like pressing the reset button on its own or sumthin. it basically restarts...thats it. annoyin isnt it??? some say it could be a codec problem but since this sometimes happens when im not watching a film, im guessin it could be somethin else. my assumption is that it could be my memory, which i doubt it is...but im certainly leaning towards hardware error from my hard-drive since im loading stuff from my hard-drive... i dont know...can anyone help me out with this or anyone care to take a stab at this pest of a problem??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 My friend had a similar problem a while ago and the only way to make it go away was to run System Restore and "turn back the clock". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomBa_GoosE Posted October 22, 2004 Author Share Posted October 22, 2004 care to elaborate? i mean this problem that i got, it even happens like right after i formatted my comp clean u kno. and once i start to watch stuff, or do sumthin like listening to music, it restarts on its own...it totally bites when ur doin sumthin like typing your paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) You got dodgy memory.Get a memory tester.http://hcidesign.com/memtest/Run it, takes TYME though...It will find it real quick or real slow... And fi you got more than 1 stick of memory, your gonna have to take a stick out, and leave one stick in wehn testing, just so you get the correct stick that is knackered. Edited October 22, 2004 by emsley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeval Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Emsley's got it, that sounds like bad RAM. Also possibly over-heating, but usually that would have other effects as well (especially on an AMD chip). Time to run the memory checker, one stick at a time. Or if you're using multiple sticks, you could just try running normally with one stick in, and see if it still crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomBa_GoosE Posted October 23, 2004 Author Share Posted October 23, 2004 ok, well i went to sleep for like a few hours and i left the mem test running. right now its still goin on.. coverage about 7,000% 2537 cycles and no errors.... so is this thing suppose to stop? am i in good shape according to these numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Well looks like your ram is ok.I am very suprised you have not had a detected error, look at i this way, at least your RAM is ok. Motherboard, or conflicts problem then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomBa_GoosE Posted October 23, 2004 Author Share Posted October 23, 2004 could it be a messed up hard-drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 (edited) This could be a heating problem...do you know how to check your CPU temps? Also, make sure the fan on your video card is running (if it has a fan). My dad had this problem and after examining closer we found that his GeForce2's fan didn't work. Edited October 23, 2004 by GryphonKlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 could it be a messed up hard-drive?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Unlikely, my bet is on overheating, ram and faulty mobo like what the others have elaborated on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuken Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 i think his cpu gets hot and the motherboard shut it down like one of those protection thingy that stop ur cpu from over heating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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