Crash to reboot problem

[Krosus]

O.k here goes, cause i am tearing my hair out here.

I have a xp2700 system, msi mobo 1gb of pc2700 ram and a 120gb seagate baracuda drive, now i did have a ibm 123gb deskstar 120gxp and i assumed that was the cause of me crashing all the time after reading a lot of horror stories however i replaced the drive today only to find im still crashing out to a reboot after a full xp reinstall, to be honest i tried switching ram, everything i can think of but having no joy here. have all the windows updates etc and im losing my mind here.

Only one thing i can consider atm is dodgy cpu, dodgy mobo or graphics card. One other thing i back my old system stuff upto dvd and im just wondering could i have bought the corruption and therefore crashing onto my new system that way? - not a virus btw i have latest norton 2003 and tried sophos as well.

 

[wolluf]

'Only one thing i can consider atm is dodgy cpu, dodgy mobo or graphics card'

so have you tested this theory? you've almost certainly got a hardware problem of some sort - so need to eliminate all possibilities.

 

[Krosus]

The mobo and cpu i cant really test trying out a old gfx card arm to see if i can replicate problem but i can usually replicate it by going to a directory and running norton(tried with and without norton to see if it was the cause it wasnt)

 

[franklin97355]

Could also be the power supply or a dislodged heatsink.

 

[Krosus]

Little more detail it usually crashes out running a hard disk virus scan, or when moving large files about (dvd images)also when i tried say unpacking a dvd image from its cab files seems almost like it hits something on the hd ( any hd seeing as i tried 3) thats makes it do an operation that causes it to freak out. I checked heatsink seating by the way thats fine and cpu/sys temp is 41.c


One problem is also if i download large files they always end up being corrupt (50mb or over) no matter what - could the root of problem maybe be a network card?

 

[micker377]

Sounds like a memory problem.

 

[SYAR2003]

Run the memory on 2,8v see if it gets more stable.

 

[Krosus]

well just went a bought a new shiny stick of 512mb ram, gonna download armed and dangerous demo 172 mb and see what happens.

after that its down to replacing mobo and then cpu and i will freak if its my radeon 9700pro cost me 250quid ;/

 

[SYAR2003]

You might end up with the neccesarity of tuning some settings in bios to resole the problem .
What mobo type do you have .