Hey guys xp is now just rebooting randomly and its starting to annoy me greatly :mad:

Computer specs:
Compaq Evon1015v, xp+2200 mobole athlon,
512mb ram (1x256 orginal compaq- i assume, 1x256 from crucial that i boguht and fitted my self as soon as i got the computer around 10 months ago), running xp pro that came with the laptop

ok after reboot windows comes up with the "xp has recovered from a serious problem...." and the error code is:

BCCode : d1 BCP1 : 00D446B0 BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : F731810C OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 0_0 Product : 256_1

Had been happening while i was using Mozilla Firefox, uninstalled that, and then it happeened in IE too so went back to Mozilla, and now just happened in the word doc which i'm trying to write my PhD thesis on :eek: talk about playing russian roulette!!

having input random bits of the error code (putting it all in gives me nothing) in google seems to be suggesting its a memory issue- but i'm no expert on the subject

what do you guys think, and if it is memory, is there a decent freeware memory checker i can use to verify that maybe the memory is bad.

wierdest thing is i run numerical optimisations in mainly c and fortan- which i would consider to be far more taxing on the machine- and run them sometimes over days (over the weekend) and there never seems to be a crash during those times even though trying to use the machine during those periods is very sluggish.

Someone please help- my crappy lack of motvation at the moment and the slowness in righting this chapter has meant i haven't really lost more than a paragraph at most from these random reboots (thanks to frequent saves and autosaves being jacked up to every 2 minutes), but i'm getting a little worried!

Any help would be greatly appreciated as always :tup:

when mine was doing something similar to this i went back to a restore point earlier than the first time i had a problem and that cured it. you may have something installed which is corrupt, or even a virus

ok thanks spiderwal, hmmm.... i think fudged with that option seeing as it has been doing it intermittently for way over a month now :(

A compaq with an athlon that reboots....no way I cant believe that. I had that problem with a friends compaq, after messing with for 3 weeks I finally took it to radio shack, they said its a software problem which I know isnt the reason, because I reinstalled a fresh copy of xp, worked for 10 mins and rebooted or just shutsdown. I called compaq, there response is to take it in to get fixed. I have heard so many people compliain about this and yet I still don have an answer for you or me.

Hey thanks Mr Snatcher, i knew something like this was gonna bite me in the behind eventually- it was just the "best" spec i could find on my budget a year back.

conventiently seems to have packed up just after the warranty period too :eek: what a surprise!

Oh well its behaved all of today so far- still gonna be here for 2 hours, enough time to get to its average 2 reboots a day :mad:

Hey no prob, If I ever find a fix for this I will definitely let you know. Funny thing is I got it to work for 2 days and bam! it reboots or just shuts down. The guy at radio shack couldnt even tell what was wrong with the software, I know its a hardware problem, but cant put my finger on it. I even replaced the cpu and memory same dam prob. I hope you find something out though.

Noy realy got an answer for you but try running it with the covers off as it could be a temp problem. May be even a dry joint on the MB that expands at temps and causes the probs. worth a try as it costs nothing.

Uncle

my pc did this awhile back, i just reformatted the hard drive (saved all my valuable data of course) and that took care of it. :hdspin:

With Compaq laptops the biggest problem seems to be with the motherboards, we use all compaq pcs at work and this is the first thing to go I'd say 8 times out if 10 this is what they fix when they repair one of our laptops, if it is a hardware issue I'd put money on it being the ram or the board