program crashing

[Far]

for ages now my pc crashes (restarts) randomly. its almost always when im on a game, and hardly ever, if ever, does it when im just on msn/browsing the net.

ive tried anyless anticrash programs, but none seem to help it to stop it from crashing my games.

its almost every 5 minutes it crashes, which gives me time to do nothing.

i have m$ antispyware, and ran that several times.

any ideas to what could be causing it? and some fixes for it? i just want to be able to play my games without it constantly crashing.

 

[Ragnar]

Re: programming crashing

Download speedfan, post temperatures here. I think the program is on the sticky.. If not, google it.

 

[Far]

Re: programming crashing

 

[urbanfox]

http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2413.exe

Run the large in place ftt torture test till your computer restarts and record what temp2 was at when it restarted.

 

[2fast2furious]

ram problem caused my m8s to do somthing similar...

 

[Far]

when running prim95, torture test, in-place large, i get an error

"hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file
tortue test ran 0 minutes - 1 errors, 0 warnings
execution halted"


any ideas how to get past that?

 

[urbanfox]

Are you or your memory overclocked?

Have you changed he voltages at all?

Had a problem and had to reset the cmos?

 

[Far]

nope none of that.

 

[Kaori]

so your computer just reboots?
goto control panel->system->advanced->startup and recovery->settings

turn off automatically restart

so that when it crashes, it will goto a blue screen of death and stays there.

 

[Hazuki]

I had exact same problem, brought some new ram worked fine ever since . That was after reading what was on the blue screen of death lol.

 

[Far]

it doesnt always restart. on most cases the program just closes and throws up the normal xp error. although it seems like its a problem with the game, it happens with any game i play. online, offline, poor quality, good quality.

which is wh im thinking its not the fan or overheating problem, since wouldnt it always shut the pc down in this case?

 

[Ragnar]

it doesnt always restart. on most cases the program just closes and throws up the normal xp error. although it seems like its a problem with the game, it happens with any game i play. online, offline, poor quality, good quality.

which is wh im thinking its not the fan or overheating problem, since wouldnt it always shut the pc down in this case?

Well, if the processor or whatever usage is going higher (wich it does when you play a game or anything), then yes the heat grows, and as you said that it doesn't happen when idle, that's why i thought it might be an overheating problem.

 

[urbanfox]

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/downloads/CPU_burn-in.zip

Download that and report back the temps in 10 minutes, disable error checking.

 

[Far]

i could understand it being that if it reset everytime, but just closing my program wouldnt mean its overheated wld it? i just cleaned my fans, and took the case off for abit of extra cooling but it still does it.

any other suggestions?

 

[Rampage]

right click my computer select properties now select the advanced tab and click Start up & Recovery settings, now take the tick out of automaticaly restart.

now if ur pc has an error it will display the BSOD instead of rebooting maybe the error code on the BSOD will help u sort ur prob

edit: my bad should read all the posts b4 posting :dunce:

 

[Kaori]

is there a specific program that's crashing? or a few? try to locate your dr. watson logs..

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;308538

basically you run "drwtsn32" and look at the log path...
I also have these settings...
number of instructions = 10
number of errors to save = 10
crash dump type = mini
"dump all thread contexts", "append to existing log file", "create crash dump file"

now goto your log directory (mine is C:\Documents and Settings\Kaori\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson)

and open the log "drwtsn32.log"
it should look like

Application exception occurred:
App: C:\Documents and Settings\Kaori\Desktop\mir2server\DBServer\DBSvr.exe (pid=3676)
When: 2003/11/16 @ 23:17:36.083
Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)

and then somewhere down the lines...

*** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Documents and Settings\Kaori\Desktop\mir2server\DBServer\DBSvr.exe
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for C:\Documents and Settings\Kaori\Desktop\mir2server\DBServer\DBSvr.exe
function: DBSvr

so at least you can maybe figure out which exe or dll or whatever is faulty... other than that maybe a microsoft certified DEBUGGER can help you... lol

 

[Far]

ye like i said it doesnt restart that often, just close my game.

 

[Kaori]

so did you check crash log?

 

[urbanfox]

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/downloads/CPU_burn-in.zip

Download that and report back the temps in 10 minutes, disable error checking.

.............

 

[Far]

@kaori, sry didnt see ur post above mine, posted at exactly same time lol. ill try that out now.

@urban, same as ^^, didnt see ur post either.


----------------------------------------------------
Application exception occurred:
App: C:\Program Files\Atari\RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3\RCT3.exe (pid=4088)
When: 09/08/2005 @ 19:10:07.312
Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)

*** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Program Files\Atari\RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3\RCT3.exe
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for C:\Program Files\Atari\RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3\RCT3.exe
-----------------------------------------------------

^^ is that any use?