Spontanious restarts and lock-ups VERY often.

[klang_ 0]

Hi guys!

 

Well, seems nobody has the same problems with win2k as I have. Every now and then the system totally dies on me (immediate restart or lock-up, approx. 2-3 times a day). Could happen when I'm in Win2k Help, downloading mails, pressing start button directly after boot-up, etc, etc. Can't find anything usefull in the event viewer, and the minidump are hieroglyphs.

 

I'm about to give up. System specs:

 

PII-450

Live! Value (default driver)

Asus V6600 (3.76 driver)

Creative CD4834E (48X, default driver)

US Robotics V90 Flash ext. modem (default driver)

 

Very little software installed. That's about it. Help would be VERY appreciated!

 

/Klang

[5t3ph3n 0]

well, i would...

1) try the default TNT drivers and if that won't work

2) try a format + clean install of Win2k 2195

[LeperMessiah 0]

Hi,

 

Make sure you use the Nvidia 3.66 drivers the others seem unstable. I put those on and everything went okay.

[tylau 0]

Just dont give up yet!

You could just try running with the safe mode and see if the problem still exist, if it doesnt then there are problems with all your hardware drivers, may be because of beta releases.

 

Should the problem still persists, your mobo may be the source of the problem.

[Distar 0]

To get rid of the restarts:

 

disable "reset on system failure" in Control Panel-> System -> Advanced ->Startup and Recovery

 

this feature lets win2k reboot with every bluescreen and you wont be able to see what application caused the crash

 

if u are using AVP Antivirus - the System Service installed by AVP 1.31 makes a bluescreen while scanning some files (its not the AVP monitor but an avp system service thats being installed even if u dont use the avp monitor)

 

To get rid of the lockups:

 

use the nvidia 3.66 beta driver - it seems to be the only reliable nvidia driver yet