restarting issues in win xp pro

[belf]

HELP ME !!!!!
ok im quite new to the pc game and quite good with the basic stuff , ive had this problem now where my pc will just restart for no apparant reason no matter what im doing at the time .
Its spec is amd athlon xp2000
gigabyte ga-7dxe motherboard
inno 3d geforce4 mx
256 ddr ram
liteon cd writer


at the moment using the onboard sound but have a creative sb live platinum aswell
so far ive updated all my drivers , formatted and reinstalled , checked all cableing ,ect - noticed i could turn off the auto restart and i now see this error message
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

stop 0x000000d1 (0x0000004b,0x00000002,0x0000001,0xf9ce4cbc)
usbuhci.sys-addressf9ce4cbc base at f9ce2000 datastamp 3b7d8688

beginning dump of pysical memory

anyone any ideas as this one is way over my head -any help will be greatly appreciated.

[geoscomp]

Sounds like either a corrupted page file or a bad memory chip.
Try the fix for the page file first:
01. Right-click My Computer and press Properties
02. Select the Advanced tab.
03. Press the Settings button under Performance.
04. Select the Advanced tab.
05. Press the Change button under Virtual memory.
06. Select No paging file and press the Set button. Press Yes if prompted.
07. Press OK, OK, and OK.
08. Shutdown and restart your computer.
09. Right-click My Computer and press Properties.
10. Select the Advanced tab.
11. Press the Settings button under Performance.
12. Select the Advanced tab.
13. Press the Change button under Virtual memory.
14. Select System Managed size and press the Set button. Press Yes if prompted.
15. Press OK, OK, and OK.
16. Shutdown and restart your computer.

other possibilities are incorrect pci loading and driver incompatibility, but the page file is easy to check.

do you still have both the creative and the onboard sound in the computer? is one deactivated?

[belf]

will give that a try -the crative has been completly taken out the pc , and uninstalled . i took it out just before i reformmatted the harddrive -just the onboard sound active at the moment .
thanx for the help .

[NooNoo]

usbuhci.sys Try this (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307271)

Also, did you install the motherboard drivers?
ga-7dxe drivers are here (http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-7DXE.htm)

[belf]

thanx - i did put them in but hey , another attempt wont hurt -thanks for that - before i could get onto the net again to post this reply and before reinstalled them drivers got another blue screen of death with a different error message

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

stop 0x000000d1 (0x00e00135,0x00000002,0x00000000,0xf9ce4bz)
usbuhci.sys-addressf9ce4cb7c base at f9ce2000 datastamp 3b7d8688

beginning dump of pysical memory.

only slightly different i know but its all foreign to me .

thanx

[The Computer Valet]

Total shot in the dark, but I once built a system that reported random IRQL BSODs which turned out to be overheating.

Another thought: Since the error seems to be associated with the USB*.sys file, try disabling the on-board USB to see if the problem recurs?

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[NooNoo]

Originally posted by NooNoo
usbuhci.sys Try this (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307271)



Did you try the usbuhci.sys fix as well?

[belf]

yeah installed the patch aswell . so far so good -it aint restarted on me yet , hopefully this has done it , any more errors ill post it

:D

[belf]

oh well it done it again, another restart . just started media player up and wham .
think im making headway with the help from you guys though - got rid of the error message i was getting which was the usbuhci.sys . thanks noo noo you sorted that one out . again though message is all forign to me it read

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

stop : 0x00000050 (0xff53457c,0x00000000,0x8051fd7a,0x00000000)

beginning dump of pysical memory.

any one any ideas !!!!!!!????????

getting close now to resorting to the good old fashion way
-http://mcp.cpu.lu/~gkes/pcrepair/

[NooNoo]

Tracking that one is a tad harder...


What exactly where you doing at the time? Where you using a program? Was the antivirus doing a system scan? Did you plug in a usb device?

Does the bsod mention a system file? something.sys ?

[belf]

give you a run down, the only thing i have usb wise connected to my pc is my broadband modem .
went to play some music in windows media player
(which had been fine all night) then bluescreen ,computer not happy .
i wrote the error message exactly as it was shown on screen . looked for .sys extensions to see if anything else was obvious . let me just check with you see if i installed the usb patch correctly, i extracted it to c:\WINDOWS so it can fit in with rest of the system files . should i do something else???? , is it me being stoopid . also reapeated the same help guide on the above post regarding going into my computer and going into page file ect ....
the thing that doesnt seem to matter is what im doing when my pc decides to restart BUT its seems to be more frequent when im either on the net or using media player . downloade th sp1 for ie 6 to see if that helps , again no joy
DOH!!!!

[belf]

oh and no , antivirus was not scanning .

[NooNoo]

What usb modem? what driver version are you using? Some are very unstable in the first release of drivers...

What version media player?

[belf]

using the sagem-f@st 800 , driver version 1.1.6
using windows media 9

[NooNoo]

Are you french? Drivers are!! however there are english manuals (http://www.sagem.com/web-modems/download/support-fast1000-fr.htm#800) Driver version 2.x is available.

[belf]

Cheers noo noo , ,been on there site cause my frenceh is not so good . there is a patch also which ive noticed , web site mentions my symptoms .
oh and another error message has appeared .

what does kmixer.sys relate too ???????????

[NooNoo]

Its a kernal file for windows... part of your sound system... what sound card do you have?

Sounds like it is time to check the ram goldmem (http://www.goldmemory.cz)

and

Docmem (www.simmtester.com)

download both, create the boot diskettes, run the memory checks, yes do it twice!

[belf]

using onboard sound at the moment . usually use a sb live platinum though, just havnt got round to installing it .

tried to install the new drivers for the modem ,but evry time i do i cant establish a connection , had to reinstall the old drivers to post this message , going have another go though in a minute .
cant test my ram because i aint got a floppy drive fitted , ive never used one so didnt bother this time round when building this pc . can i create boot disks to cd rom and set my bios to boot from cdrom instead though ?????????

[NooNoo]

Possibly, never tried myself...
If you can create a bootable cd that does the false a drive bit, I would imagine it would work.

[belf]

tried it and the program itself will not asllow me to create a boot disk on cd .

the patch usbuhci.sys patch has not seemed to work , also if i download the update on the sagem website , it stops me establishing a connection to the net . ?????

oh well gonna give up for the day now i think and have a well deserved beer . :D

[belf]

think i may have found the problem , escaped me last time i checked my irq's , but had my sound drivers and my usb drivers both working on irq 5 , ive now uninstalled my sound , and so far so good , only problem is i now have no sound . if i reinput my drivers for my sound can i change the irq as it works with ???? think this could be the problem cause as i said in earlier post -problem seems to be when using windows media and the internet.

would appriciate if anyone knows how to change the irq though.

[belf]

its still not worked , !!!!!!!!
going reformatt , strip, and rebuild .

[belf]

Finally ive done it . turned out to be my RAM

thanks noo noo for the help with that .

[NooNoo]

Anytime - glad you found the problem :)