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| 152966 | 2003-06-16 10:01:00 | Hi Gang What would instigate a complete booof - as in, screen blank and warm reboot? Not just locked up, or frozen. I'll be typing away for hours when - booof. A booof like you'd get if you ripped the plug out of the wall, but followed by a warm reboot. I replaced my CRT with a sweet LCD flat screen and new video card. Ever since, I get this twice-daily booof thing. Is this a wattage total thing? I could find out what my power supply is rated at, but how can I add up my internal power consumption? I also wondered if this was an available RAM thing. Out of a total of 256 meg I average 70 odd available. I've had the machine checked out by the guy's that I bought the monitor and video card and they can't find any issues with conflicts etc. I've 'healed' WinXP to no avail. Is there a system error monitoring program that records/logs system vitals? The Flat Screen is a AOC LCD 17" AOC-17 The Video card is a Leadtek Geforce4 A170 series Any thoughts out there? Morri |
Morri (2144) | ||
| 152967 | 2003-06-16 10:39:00 | disable the reboot on error thing XP has (don't ask me where but theres a few posts on this). what watage PSU and what speed CPU do you have ?? did you uninstall the old drivers before installing the new video card?? what video card drivers are you useing ?? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 152968 | 2003-06-16 11:06:00 | thanks tweak'e about disabling the reboot on error thing, I've forgotten where that setting is too but I'll look into it. I just rechecked under the hood, the power supply is 300W. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 1700. I downloaded new copies of the drivers for the video card and the monitor. As for uninstalling the old drivers. I had the shop install the new video card, and I'm sure the case cover was off before it was ever plugged in. So I fairly sure the old video card/monitor drivers were not uninstalled first. Any thoughts on this? |
Morri (2144) | ||
| 152969 | 2003-06-16 11:13:00 | what was the old vid card?? otherwise just uninstall ANY video card drivers, clean out any left overs (there are a few nvidia/ati driver cleaning tools around). install video card as standard pci vid card then install new drivers. hope that helps a bit. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 152970 | 2003-06-16 11:23:00 | >about disabling the reboot on error thing, I've forgotten where that setting is too You can find it under Control Panel > System > Advanced tab. Under Startup and Recovery click the setting button. Under the System failure, remove tick from beside "Automatically restart". Apply and OK. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 152971 | 2003-06-16 11:45:00 | Thanks Jen C, I had just found it. There's a folder, C:\WINDOWS\Minidump that contains 30 odd crash 'reports' from the last 2 weeks! (getting sick of this drama I can tell ya!)(7 in one day) Haven't figured out yet how to interperate them yet, they're all code. They're a *.DMP file. | Morri (2144) | ||
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