My computer keeps restarting..its really random maybe every 5 minutes or whatever. It just automatically restarts by itself. I actually just recently reformatted the computer and it just started while i play games or just online it just restarts. Please help

Try changing this setting in order to get a detailed error report:

rt. click My Computer then click Properties then Advanced then Startup and Recovery Settings then unclick Automatically restart

What is this going to do? is it going to tell me the problem?

Rather than restart the computer from a STOP error it will freeze the screen with the error details.

Please post back those details.

You will then need to manually shut down the computer from the Power Button.

Well Jephree i will be back in a few hours and post again.....

Jephree......i got a blue screen now that says
STOP: 0x0000001A (0x00041284) 0x74997000, 0x00000000, 0xc0503000

jephree I just restarted again and the 2nd blue screen looks like 0x000000D1 (0x00000055, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xBACAEA49)

0x0000001A: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

This memory management error is usually hardware related. See the General Troubleshooting of STOP Messages checklist above. If this occurs while installing Windows, also check the Windows system requirements including the amount of RAM and disk space required to load the operating system.

General Troubleshooting of STOP Messages
If you can’t find a specific reference to your problem, running through the following checklist stands a good chance of resolving the problem for you. This checklist is also usually the best approach to troubleshooting some specific Stop messages, such as 0x0A and 0x50.

Examine the “System” and “Application” logs in Event Viewer for other recent errors that might give further clues. To do this, launch EventVwr.msc from a Run box; or open “Administrative Tools” in the Control Panel then launch Event Viewer.
If you’ve recently added new hardware, remove it and retest.
Run hardware diagnostics supplied by the manufacturer.
Make sure device drivers and system BIOS are up-to-date.
However, if you’ve installed new drivers just before the problem appeared, try rolling them back to the older ones.
Open the box and make sure all hardware is correctly installed, well seated, and solidly connected.
Confirm that all of your hardware is on the Hardware Compatibility List. If some of it isn’t, then pay particular attention to the non-HCL hardware in your troubleshooting.
Check for viruses.
Investigate recently added software.
Examine (and try disabling) BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.

0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

The system attempted to access pageable memory using a kernel process IRQL that was too high. The most typical cause is a bad device driver (one that uses improper addresses). It can also be caused by caused by faulty or mismatched RAM, or a damaged pagefile.


Do you have SP2 installed? Was this machine running OK previously? Both those errors point to possible RAM issues but they are rare if the computer was working OK previously.

See this: Error Message with RAM Problems or Damaged Virtual Memory Manager
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810093&sd=RMVP


Also to examine further details if none of the above helps:

Go to start | search (type in) .dmp
Note the location of your .dmp files.

Then:

1) Download and install the
Debugging Tools from Microsoft
2) Download and install this
debugwiz
3) Open the Wiz & Browse to, or paste in the path to, your .dmp file.
4) After the Wiz creates a Text document attach it back to this thread.

I've always had problems with this computer i run a 512MB of ram with a Pent 4 2.6 with a video card geforce 2 MX 400 (with the drivers the the nvidia website)

hmmm i was thinking it was a hardware problem so its leading towards teh ram? how can i check if my hardware is running smoothly or not?