ok PCI cards: Sounblaster Live Terton something ISDN Ethernet card AGP: Geforce2 MX Meh motherboard is Abit KT7, processor AMD Duron 750. I just took out the ethernet card since I dont need it, and now this has been up for 10min. Waiting for the blue screen of death now.. :(

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didnt help. Now this is the second time I am writing this message, I got the blue screen of death just after sending last time :/ Neways now it also (and especially) bugs during playing. I wonder if my harddrive configuration has anything to do with it. Primary master is a MAxtor 20gig, primary slave is Quantum Fireball 3gig, and secondary master is my Creative CDdrive. All games are on the 3gig.. Also, when I get the blue screen, it doesnt always give the same error report. Just now it was something to do with win32k.sys , but it might also say some like No_Page_somethin dont remember. Would it help if I recorded exaclty what it says?

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Yes well I reinstalled winxp from nothing, and now everything seems to work fine! This although at some point when copying files the installation program suddenly coulndt find some files.. but I just continued and everything works as per now

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yes well actually its pretty much as bad as before.. btw I always hear a hard drive powering up after it reboots.. dont know if it somehow doesnt work properly and stops which causes the bug

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Wow! I have the exact same problem. It just seems to happen every once in a while, but never when I am playing games (the only game I have is Half-Life). Here is my setup: Abit KT7A-RAID (not using RAID though) Athlon Tbird 1GHz 256MB RAM WD 30GB Hard Disk Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB Video Card Sound Blaster AWE64Gold (ISA) Linksys Ethernet Card Diamond 56K Modem Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI Card I have gotten the newest video card drivers, BIOS update, and chipset drivers but the problem persists. In the event log it said that APCI BIOS tried to read from a protected memory error 4 times whenever the problem occurs. Anyone have any ideas. Please email me if you can. Thanks. -Devin Weston

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INteresting, I get teh same thing - but mine is opposite in the fact that i get it rebooting CONSTANTLY in games. Otherwise stable as! Reboots (back to windows sometimes) but more often complete warm boot. Does it in: baldurs gate, baldurs gate 2, max payne, diablo 2.... thats all i have tried so far... i have heard about something with the via chipset & xp.. but have not found much... i have a scusi hdd & burner.. but OS drive is IDE and all other software there too... i have the A7V, GForce2, adaptec 2940 card, yamaha 4160 burner, sblive!, ath 1gig weird?? yes.

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Hi guys. I have the same problem with win XP rebooting my computer. Guess we're not alone. It's happened to me 3 times today so far.

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yep same here ... reboots quite often, but never when i'm playing games ... SB Live Athlon 1gig 512 MB Ram Geforce 2 Ultra

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I have had the exact same problem since I installed Win2k Pro, now with XP pro... Same deal with gaming also, never reboots then. Where is that option so I can turn it off? Thanks.

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i have this rebootingproblem too, 'cept it seems to happen only when i attempt to create or move a directory... strange!

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WOW, I have a rebooting problem as well. The difference is that it happens like everytime i start win XP. It just reboots my system at random. One time i could last 20 minutes, when I pressed some 'ok' button my system rebooted, another time it reboots my system 3 times in 2 minutes, it's really driving me nuts. Several times it occured that it just rebooted my comp when I just typed in my password at the login screen. The problem never occured when I was still running win 98 se.... I tried formatting my entire hdd, installing xp clean without upgrading, it just doesn't help. I'ts driving me NUTS! What is the problem?? My specs: Intel Pentium III 500 Mhz 256 MB ram, TNT 2 (viper v770 non-ultra) and a maxtor 13 gig hdd... At first I thought that my hdd was suffering from damaged clusteres but isn't a format supposed to mark these bad sectors..? If there's that option to reboot win xp whenever a error might occur...where can i dissable it???? ARGGHHHHH :(

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Same here too and it's begining to piss me off. If any body knows why, please let me know. My box 950AMD,256 ram,ATI pro video, Epox MB, 2-30gig maxtor drives and Iomega burner

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I've had this happen twice... two days ago, now it's behaving again. I converted my file system to NTFS (about 2 weeks after installing XP) and wanted to set My Documents as a private folder (so the rest of my family can't access my IRC/MSN logs and such), and it opened a window, stating something like Modifying Folder Privacy or some such, and then it flicked a blue error screen for about a quarter of a second and rebooted, no warning. It did this twice, and as XP was acting very sluggish, i booted to safe mode and did a partial defragment (partial cause i have about 25 gigs of stuff on my hdd), for about 6 hours, during which i slept, and when i woke up, it had booted itself to the XP logon screen, apparently it had encountered an error, cause it wasn't done defragging. It wasn't swapping like mad anymore though, so i tried setting the folder private again, and it did so, and has been error-free for the past two days. So try defragging, might help - as someone pointed out, it's windows' way of avoiding HDD problems, a defrag might help.

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Well at least I'm not alone. Got a Soyo Dragon Plus MB, 1600+, Starforce 829 is the only board. 2 40 G HD's, Creative burner. All hardware is NEW. Updated the MB BIOS...OK. Installed new drivers for everything. Using the two HD's in normal config not RAID 1. Machine warm boots about 6 times a day from the number of .dmp files listed. Happens during screen saver...after Madden 2000 Football seems stable while running other apps. I was going to return the unit thinking its a HW problem....Methinks the problem isn't with the hardware but maybe with the HD driver so maybe I'll keep the unit...IT COOKS I did find that there was a second HDD controller in the devices listing that was in trouble...removed it...waiting for the next shoe to drop... P.S. is there a .dmp file reader somewhere??? sure would help to know what the problem is... Would a OS reload help? Sounds like others have tried and it dosent

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Check what type of memory you have (GENERIC OR MAJOR). Sometimes it just is the type of memory(mostly generic) that causes the problem. Try buying some major instead. The brands like "Infineon" et "MT"(Micron Technologies) really make a difference. I'm a technician and I have seen problems that have been solved this way. There you go!

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I SOLVED IT !!! I´m not sure if it will work for everybody, but it did it in my case. I had the same problem, and I found on Internet a lot of posible cases: 1. A problem between nVIDIA and VIA procesors. I´m sure the problem is not that, cause I tried with a S3Trio and the problem stayed 2. Problem with Cd writer 3. Problem with a TV Capture: there are no drivers for Xp, so it could be the problem 4. RAM.... As I had no idea, I opened my PC and take off everything, formated and installed Xp from the beggining. Then I was adding things (modem, sound card....) ono by one and trying a pair of days if it was the problem. Well, I have everything added now, and everythig goes right. No problem at all. So my conclussion is that the problem was INSTALLING XP OVER WIN ME. The folder Doccumntes and settings creates a lot of folders with old Win ME, which makes problems with drivers, programs and everything. So U could try to format and install Win Xp from the begginning, and better if add things one by one and give them a try. I solve it. I know it sounds something stupid, but now everything is now ok. I had the same problem in two PC and I could solve it. For any question, email me

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