Sudden Reboots. Any ideas are appreciated!

[dakine99]

Hi, I'm having problems with the system in my sig. Can't seem to figure out exactly what's causing it. Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction.

Symptoms:

Sudden Stop errors/reboots and lockups when trying to start XP. Strange thing is that it does not happen all the time, only about 1/4 of the times I try to start up.

It seems to happen more often if there a disks in both burners.

Booting in safe mode always works regardless of disks.

I don't think I installed any new drivers recently and system restore didn't solve it.

Temps are all normal.

Memtest and prime95 report no errors.



I'm a little stumped. Only thing I can think of is that it is a power issue. Maybe too much draw when both burners spin up? Power supply is a year old 480w (20 pin) Enermax. But then I would expect more problems. Windows seems to run fine once I'm past the xp logo.

Any ideas are appreciated!

 

[Oldwolf]

I was getting that from a corrupt XP install last year. Could be the same thing???

Try this, boot with only the C drive in the system, and slowly add back one device at a time. Maybe one of them is causing the issue.

And if you think it might be a certain part, try that part in a different system to see wha happens.

 

[dakine99]

Thanks, I'll try that. I hate it when you can't figure out if it's a hardware or software problem. Maybe I'll try a fresh install and see what happens.