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[shuri]

So i think I related the stories of my old and failing amd 2600+ .. It just resets randomly. Very randomly. The memory dump gives me a page_fault_in_unpage_area error. so it seems to be a memory related error. I bust out memtest, test it all night long.. nothing.

WHAT. THE FUCK! Tinfoil hat Cat, HELP ME!

*poof*

"Maybe.. the power supply?"

I changed the power supply. Still randomly freezes. And yes, Tinfoild Hat Cat, I changed the videocard. Still nothing. It just randomly freeze.

"You've called?"

Hello Tinfoil hat Cat, my computer is freezing, WHY?!?!?!

"Maybe.. it's a heat issue?"

So I run a temp monitoring util that came with the mobo. Everything is fine.

"Maybe.. the windows installation?"

I restaured from a ghost, everything is fine, clean, no viruses or spyware.

"Governement agents are monitoring youi"

FU Tinfoil hat Cat . HALP GAF, be more usefull than the Tinfoil Hat Cat and help me finding out what's up with the resetting insanity.

The last resort solution would be changing the motherboard, but I dont have any usable mobo that would work with the type of cpu at the moment

 

[Kon Tiki]

HDD failure? Bad cable?

 

[Anthropic]

A friend of mine has a similar problem like that where it's the northbridge that overheats.

 

[ypo]

Check the capacitors on the motherboard to see if some of them are bulging out. They all should be flat on top.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

what kind of powersupply ya got.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Probably the mobo

 

[BugCatcher]

Try replacing your ram, or put ram you know works in different slots on the motherbaord, in case that is the problem. I had some bad ram that would cause my computer to reboot randomly, but memory testing programs found no problems. It's obvious it was the ram though, because when I would boot up sometimes it would show 512M of ram, other times 384M Swapped out the bad stick and all was well.

 

[pestul]

What kind of videocard do you have? I've been having those kind of problems since Catalyst 5.1 w/Control Center (on 5.2 now).

EDIT: Missed the changed vidcard part.. sorry. Looks like you might need to spend some money. :/

 

[shuri]

The hard drives are fine, i tested them on my other rig for 2 days, without any problems. I tested the ram in every configuration possible, the system had 1.5gb of ram, I tried every combo possible, with no success.

This has been going on for like a month and a half now. I called around, and it turns out one of my friend has the same mobo in storage, unused. The mobo is asus a7n8x-dx. The videocard that was inside was a 9800 pro. I switched it back to its orginal gforce 4 ti4600 , and it's still freezing.

I had a sirtech (...) 300w psu that was included in the original casing. Switched it to another 310w sirtech (...) psu I had in another unused casing i had. Still froze. Then I went and switched the psu to my 3500+'s antec 420w, and it still froze randomly. Now it's back to the 310w psu (it worked perfectly for ~3 years damnit!) and a single clip of 512mb of ram. The system is being "seriously tested" by my father who's playing a heated game of cribbage on it.

It's been running for a while now, still no resets. Also, i had to mid-POST continuous resets, and for a while, it resetted right before the first XP logo.

 

[DJ Sl4m]

The memory dump gives me a page_fault_in_unpage_area error

Do you have your page file located on a different partition than your OS ?
If so, relocate it back to the drive your OS is on, I've noticed sometimes XP forgets when a pagefile is on it's own partition, although I'm not sure why it does this.

If it's on the same drive as your OS, go into drive properties and select error checking on next reboot.

Your pagefile has nothing to do with your mobo, vid card, psu or dimm slot memory.
It sounds like a location problem, could be a HDD having trouble writing to that section of the drive.