Random Reboots...

[Kooldino]

It just happened. Again. In the middle of a freakin' Ghost backup no less.

I'd rather not format this thing if I can avoid it.

For some reason, SOMETHING is calling for this damn thing to initialize every few weeks or so.

Dear God, make it stop.

[Elie]

Buy a new drive, install Windows and see if the problem occurs.

Keep the original in tact just in case you need to copy some files.

Try it and see, oh and make sure your current C drive is diconnectde when installing windows on the new drive.

Drives are not that expensive anymore, it may help you to start fresh.


Regards,
Elie

[Whirl-Secret]

Some of our servers do random reboots too, scary. Although that is an environmental power problem.


Services crashing is not really what you want, although you don't need me to tell you that :/

Would it be possible to actually disable the service until you need it? Which is probably never if you don't have the card installed any more :P

[Kooldino]

The service doesn't even show up in the services list.

[Whirl-Secret]

Sorry, I just noticed you answered that services earlier in the thread.

Looking at it again, I don't believe it's actually the gfx card. It's cominp up with a service error, but that's just some ghost in the machine somewhere imho.

Your system config says athlonxp @1.7... does that mean you're overclocking? If so you will need to experiment with turning the clock down, putting the voltage up etc etc.

"Bunch of Drives". Well that will need a "bunch of watts" in your power supply to keep happy. Do you have a branded psu with >300W ?

Will probably also be worth upgrading motherboard drivers, hardware bios, and maybe even opening up the pc to see if there is too much dust or if the cpu is getting too hot.

[Kooldino]

I'm certain that this isn't a hardware issue. Having a CPU that runs too hot would not produce the same error about loading a service for a peice of hardware I no longer have, IMO.

I'm sure I could get rid of it if I formatted, but that's the easy way out

[Marshmallowman]

You could try a registry cleaner.

[Whirl-Secret]

I'm certain that this isn't a hardware issue. Having a CPU that runs too hot would not produce the same error about loading a service for a peice of hardware I no longer have, IMO.

I was thinking that the error message is caused after the reboot, rather than being the actual cause of the reboot. Have seen it before, but I guess you know your system better.