Freshly installed XP Home SP2 on AMD 1700+ system that had Win 98 SE installed. win.ini got corrupted so I reformatted and installed XP. PC won't stay on for more than 5 mins without suddenly going to the video screen, then Bios, etc. and restarts Windows after a scandisk. Had S.M.A.R.T. enabled, and when I disabled it, the time the PC would stay on increased dramtically. I'm thinking Power Supply and/or Motherboard .... Any other ideas/tricks/tips I can try before buying indescrimately??

In answer to Jephree, 512MB RAM /w 40GB Maxtor HDD. Also Posted on Microsoft Help Forums and was advised to use a Ram Tester, which I am in the process of doing.

How much RAM do you have? How large is your hard drive?



Turn off Auto Restart in order to get error messages:

Right click My Computer then click Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > Settings

Unclick Automatically Restart under System Failure.

This should freeze your screen on an error message.


Also:


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.

PC has 512MB RAM and 40 GB HDD Turned off the AutoRestart as per your instructons, and the restart issue seems to have disappeared. Downloaded and ran MemTest as Reccomended on Microsoft newsgroup Forum ... found no probs. Downlaoded and installed the debugging files you wanted (downloaded on different PC and installed on affected PC) and created the Debug file file on the last DMP file created yesterday which is attached.

Originally Posted by jephree

How much RAM do you have? How
large is your hard drive?



Turn off Auto Restart in order to get error messages:

Right click My Computer then click Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > Settings

Unclick Automatically Restart under System Failure.

This should freeze your screen on an error message.


Also:


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.

If the problem persists please post any new logs.

Plus that last one you only copied the very beginning of the log. These logs are quite long.

In the text box you might want to press Ctrl A to select all and then copy and paste.