re: Windows XP shuts down Monday, December 8, 2003 at 9:05 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tim (3 messages posted) I'm sorry to say that I had to give up. It turns out that my motherboard was bad, or something killed it. I built a brand new machine from the ground up. Left my old faithful AMD and got the Intel PentiumIIII and new video card. Full new install of WindowsXP and am now running Norton SystemWorks with full protection. Will be setting up a firewall next. DANG! That was an expensive fix. On Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 6:42 am, Jeff wrote: >Similar behavior here! >My XP Pro computer (Intel 2.8 & 1.5GB RAM) will shut down without any warning and >reboot. And when it's after 4 hours of rendering in Pinnacle Studio 8, it's bad, >really bad! >In the event log there is really nothing that helps me because nothing special is >being recording when the shutdown happens. The only thing is when it reboots, 2 errors >are logged. >The first one refers to %OWC_USBEHCD.DeviceDesc% service failed >The second one refers to viaagp system that failed to load. >Exploring the issue I've learned a lot more than I really care about WinXP! May be >useful to me, but I won't be able to bill it to my client. >So, I learned about the event log >I found a problem with zone alarm >I found a problem with PctSpk >I changed the PRC service to just restart itself and not the system (msservices) >I disabled the reboot in startup and recovery >I cleaned up my processes and services (amazing the stuff that can sneak in!) >I checked the temperature of my system (looked in the BIOS and everything is fine >but still left the case open for now) >I run check memory utility but that seems to be ok >I lowered the video resolution (didn't try changing the hw acceleration though) >Video drivers are current even though a little old (I have an ATI rage 128 pro, AGP >4X) > >Well, that's it. It's been going on for a week now since I had a new motherboard >and processor installed in my machine. Before with AMD Athlon it would just shutdown >and not restart. > >Any feedback would be most appreciated! > Written in response to: re: Windows XP shuts down (Jeff: Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 6:42 am) Responses to this message: re: Windows XP shuts down (don: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 11:10 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Windows XP shuts down (Rafael: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:18 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (John: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:27 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (Bill Vanover: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:46 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (teej: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:53 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (Rafael: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 8:05 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (Richard: Mon, Oct 6, 2003, 8:22 am) re: Windows XP shuts down (Tim: Sat, Oct 25, 2003, 6:37 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (Tim: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 4:11 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (Jeff: Sun, Dec 7, 2003, 6:42 am) re: Windows XP shuts down (Tim: Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 9:05 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (don: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 11:10 am) re: Windows XP shuts down (Steve: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 10:16 am) re: Windows XP shuts down (Martius: Sat, Jan 3, 2004, 3:07 am) re: Windows XP shuts down (Steve: Sat, Jan 3, 2004, 2:20 pm) re: Windows XP shuts down (Martius: Sat, Jan 3, 2004, 3:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum