(seemingly) Random Restarts

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-05-27 09:07pm

My computer seems to be having random restarts. I'm relatively sure it's not spyware as they don't appear to be regular and they're too spaced out to prevent the elimination of malicious programs. I looked into event veiwer and found this log. What does it mean?

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The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0x00000060, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xed0211b5). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini052704-02.dmp.

There was also this one from a reboot that happened earlier

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The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x00000050 (0xffffffff, 0x00000000, 0xffffffff, 0x00000000). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini052704-01.dmp.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-05-28 01:49am

Right-click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced tab -> Startup and Recovery button -> Uncheck the "Automatically Reboot" checkbox.

Now you should get BSODs instead of spontaneous restarts, and you can report back what error W2K kicks back to you (and, if possible, what driver file it points to).

CorSec · Post by **CorSec** » 2004-05-28 03:34pm

You could try this program and check to make sure your ram is good. I spent the two months chasing after a random restart problem and this was my problem. (That, and then the power supply went kaput.)

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-28 04:08pm

possibly the MS Blaster worm or one of its variants?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2004-05-28 04:20pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Right-click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced tab -> Startup and Recovery button -> Uncheck the "Automatically Reboot" checkbox.

Now you should get BSODs instead of spontaneous restarts, and you can report back what error W2K kicks back to you (and, if possible, what driver file it points to).

You don't need to do that, the Event Viewer has the same information (the STOP codes).

From the codes it's throwing up (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA), you're looking at either a driver fault, so uninstall and roll back any drivers you've installed recently, or possibly a memory fault.

A memory checking program is a good idea at this point as well.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-06-01 02:11am

If it's a driver fault, it should be kicking back a file name for the driver (like my system will BSOD every tenth boot or so with my RAID controller's driver listed), and I don't see any files listed in the Event Viewer logs posted. I still think he should elect to view the BSOD so he can find out just what driver is killing Windows.