XP Computer randomly restarting, bugcheck?

[dandavies]

Hello guys,

I wonder if any of you could be of assistance, as I'm getting extremely frustrated by this problem and am at complete blank as to what the problem could be.

Basically, I have a media centre PC that is rebooting at random intervals. It has no warning before hand, and just goes blank and restarts.

I thought it could be an over-heating problem, however I have run speedfan to see what sort of temperatures it gets to and it averages around 40oc on the CPU, which to me seems fine?

I've had a look through the event log, and there are a couple of entries after the reboot which seem interesting; although I haven't got a clue what they mean! I'll post those now, one sec.

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Error code 10000050, parameter1 d953031c, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 804e8d74, parameter4 00000000.

Error code 00000019, parameter1 00000020, parameter2 e2f37dc0, parameter3 e2f386a8, parameter4 0d1def38.

Error code 1000000a, parameter1 000000e8, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 806ffa16.

Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 805509e9, parameter3 a9cc483c, parameter4 00000000.

Error code 000000f4, parameter1 00000003, parameter2 8a2f5020, parameter3 8a2f5194, parameter4 80604428.

Error code 100000d1, parameter1 00000004, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 b98797d6.

and there is also another event in there a couple of minutes after saying that:

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The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000005, 0x8056e978, 0xa97c3b7c, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini050909-01.dmp.

Now I'm not sure how to open this elussive .dmp file but have attached it just in case that might give you a bit more information?

I hope this all helps, and thanks very much guys; it is really getting quite irritating to be in the middle of some work to have it randomly reboot! :(

Mini050909_01.zipFetching info...

[RobCr]

They tell me this is rare, so it may not help you.

I went through hell(various hells) for many days, and eventually it got to the point where it would last about 30 seconds, then reboot.

I found a good guy, who checked it out, and he found that the cpu was faulty.

He has replaced it.

I am still trying to recover data, but during those attempts (eg cloning the whole disk), it has run(busily) for 10 hours without any rebooting.

If it is not your cpu, I believe

fluctuating power supply

or

motherboard problems

or

bad ram

or

dying drive

can also cause your symptoms.

[+allan MVC]

System Properties - Advanced - Startup & Recovery Settings - UNCHECK "Automatically Restart". Next time there's an error you'll see a blue screen - post the contents of that blue screen here.

[JRosenfeld]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms797161.aspx

In left pane scroll down to 0x1000008E. Actually, that tells you to look at 0x8E: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

0xC0000005: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION indicates that a memory access violation occurred.

Some advice given on what to check.

You can use the Microdoft debugging tools to analyze the minidump.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/deb...ng/default.mspx