Winxp autorestarting?

[Asbestos]

I had quite a few problems with my last install of XP. After a month, It would just randomly restart itself!

I formatted and reinstalled xp, and while installing some things, it did it again.

I got a BSOD that said there was a problem with ntfs.sys.

I replaced my cables for my hdd, moved the two I have apart from each other (they felt pretty hot, I have never seen that before)

I ran scandisk etc etc.

As my system stands now, its just xp, no other drivers except detinator 30.82 (the newer ones cause mouse problems)

Any tips? Is my main hard drive shot?

[NooNoo]

OK, time to find out what is causing the restarts.

Windows XP defaults to restarting when it has a problem... first thing to do is turn it off so you can actually see the error or blue screen of death. Right click my computer, properties, advanceds, startup and recovery and uncheck the automatically restart on error box.

Next have a look at the event viewer - start, control panel, performance and maintenance, administrative tools, event viewer... what do you have as errors in there?

[Asbestos]

Here are a few of the red and yellow errors:

The performance counter name string value in the registry is incorrectly formatted. The bogus string is 1848, the bogus index value is the first DWORD in Data section while the last valid index values are the second and third DWORD in Data section.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Faulting application msimn.exe, version 6.0.2600.0, faulting module mshtml.dll, version 6.0.2600.0, fault address 0x001295ea.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The COM+ Event System failed to fire the ConnectionMade method on subscription {66E36DDD-642D-4DFC-842B-ECD31CB44D58}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber returned HRESULT 80004001.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

LastCounter and LastHelp values of performance registry is corrupted and needs to be updated. The first and second DWORDs in Data Section are the original values while the third and forth DWORDs in Data Section are the updated new values.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I have never looked here :P Guess there is allot going on hehe

Also, I just tried to install a few more things, and I am getting goofy read errors still (from the cd drive)

Winxp
AMD 1400+
512 megs of ram
ti4200 64 meg card,
80 gig main drive, 30 gig backup drive

[NooNoo]

the events have an identifier called

EVENT ID: XXXX where XXXX is a 4 digit number... can we have those please?

[Asbestos]

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event # 8193

The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cp p. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event 4609


Product: Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage -- Error 2755. An internal error has occurred. (995 E:\mso\PROPLUS.MSI ) Contact Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) for assistance. For information about how to contact PSS, see E:\mso\FILES\PFILES\MSOFFICE\OFFICE10\1033\PSS10R. CHM.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event 10005

Am I just screwed or what??

[NooNoo]

You using raid?

Check the bios time and check the system time!

How about Norton?

Via chipset? Did you download the via hyperions from www.viaarena.com ?

[Asbestos]

First off, thanks for your help. Here is what I have done, and so far, it has resolved it (Fresh install, installing apps, running games etc..

I changed my IDE cables, that didnt work. Next I simply just changed outlets that my computer plugs into. The wiring is pretty old in my house and I had quite a bit of crap plugged into it. Once i did that, it worked fine lol.

My guess is that i was drawing too little or inconsistant power to my box and that was causing the problems.. Time will tell :P

[NooNoo]

A surge protector should be your very next purchase! :eek2:

[Asbestos]

Yah, I do have a few I use. :P I'm not that brave :0