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My PC has been freezing at random. It happens more frequently while I'm playing a game (City of Heroes) but does happen from time to time when I'm just in windows doing the web/chat things. It did this when I had my old vidcard/MOBO/memory/PSU and even after the upgrades it still continues to do this. I've even gotten a better case for cooling. At first the PC would lock up, keep repeating the same sound over and over and the only thing I could do was a hard reboot. Now it just reboots by itself. :-/ I honestly have no clue as to what's causing this. My friend says it could be SATA harddrives since he hates them, but I've been running two 80-gig S-ATA for a little over a year now, I don't see why after a year they would start doing this. I'm guessing this is a hardware problem, due to the fact that I've reformatted 5 times since it all started happening. If anyone out there has any info on what might be causing my system to randomly reboot, I'd appreciate it. Like I said, it's a hardware problem I'm sure, I just dont know what hardware (and since i've gotten a new vidcard/MOBO/memory/PSU since it all started happening, im fairly sure its not any one of those items).

AidenN

Hijack This report:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 12:09:43 AM, on 9/24/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\wbload.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_03\bin\jusched.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE
C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
C:\Program Files\CursorXP\CursorXP.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\wuauclt.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\MSI\Core Center\CoreCenter.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Lavasoft\AD-AWA~1\Ad-Aware.exe
D:\Utilities\HijackThis1991.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.gmail.com/
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMan] SOUNDMAN.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_03\bin\jusched.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NeroFilterCheck] C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinampAgent] C:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LogonStudio] "C:\Program Files\WinCustomize\LogonStudio\logonstudio.exe" /RANDOM
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [AIM] C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe -cnetwait.odl
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [CursorXP] C:\Program Files\CursorXP\CursorXP.exe
O4 - Startup: LimeWire On Startup.lnk = C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O4 - Global Startup: CoreCenter.lnk = C:\Program Files\MSI\Core Center\CoreCenter.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmsearch.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Translate English Word - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmwordtrans.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward Links - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmbacklinks.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Cached Snapshot of Page - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmcache.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Similar Pages - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmsimilar.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate Page into English - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmtrans.html
O9 - Extra button: AIM - {AC9E2541-2814-11d5-BC6D-00B0D0A1DE45} - C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
O9 - Extra button: Related - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show &Related Links - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...?1125962351718
O20 - Winlogon Notify: WB - C:\PROGRA~1\Stardock\OBJECT~1\WINDOW~1\fastload.dl l
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe

Hya Aidenn , welcome to PCHF.

It looks like youre pc is clean

Have you already checked the temps to see if it isnt a heat issue?
Also what are youre system specs and psu specs?

Have a look with this app for the temps and voltages:

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

But i see you have no A.V. , firewall and windows is out of date. In the download section are severall free firewall's and A.V.s if youre interested , and its a good idea to pay winupdate a visit.

Well, I downloaded Ad-aware SE last night and ran that, also Spybot S&D. I'm not a fan of service pack 2 (when the problem first started happening I had my windows completely updated). I know it's not my temps, my cpu is around 30 C when idle, I've seen it hit 49 C at the most when playing CoH for an extended period of time. Something I feel I should add is this. After I got my new PSU (480w) and my new mobo (MSI 865PE) and I reformatted the problem seemed to go away. I could stay logged on to CoH for a couple days at a time (not that I sat and played, but I'd enter a missions so as to not get booted when I left the PC) After about a week the problem came back. So I ordered new memory for my pc (crappy value RAM at only 512 just wasnt cutting it anymore anyway) and upgraded to corsair xms 1024. As soon as I installed the memory the problem went away again, no rebooting. However about another week later, here I am again banging my head against my monitor.
I also have two S-ATA 80 gig HDs, a Sony DVD-/+ R/RW-DL burner, and a Toshiba DVD-ROM. The vid card is a NVIDIA 6600GT. If there's anything else you'd like to know, I'll post it up here.
After running Ad-Aware and Spybot last night I logged on to CoH and went in to a mission like I always do to test to see if my pc will reboot. I was logged on for a good 6 hours before I woke up and saw I hadn't restarted yet. Usually the PC will restart itself after about 1-2 hours, sometimes I can get in a rut where it wont do it for 3-4. But I've never gone 6 hours while the problem was occuring. So maybe there was a virus doing this to me. I'll run CoH all day while I'm out and about, and maybe post later to see if it happens while I'm away for a longer period of time.
I know it sounds like it's a CoH issue since it happens while I play the game, but it does occasionally happen while I'm just doing the AIM/web thing. So CoH is not the cause :-/

AidenN

Oh, by the way, I've tried installing MBM5 and it doesn't support MSI boards. :cry: I do however have MSI's mobo utility and EVEREST home edition. :-D

AidenN

Yup, still rebooting. :

Here's something, the CPU fan speed is amazingly low, but it's been right around 2700rpm, but right now its at 170rpm!? CPU temp is at 40 C. Weird, no reboot thogh, but that maybe whats causing it?

AidenN