TSGL: New PC + XP reboots again+again

[Tilman Brandl]

John,

since this is a brandnew machine, all I did was running MS's mem-test - no 
errors after running for a loooong time. And - I had the 'auto restart' box 
cleared - of course <g>. That gave me half a dozen or more error dialogs, 
nothing I could interprete. There were a few blue screens too with an error 
like "Page_fault_in nonpaged_area_ ...... stop: 0x00000050 (0x.....) ...." 
etc. Couldn't make out what to do, after searching the web for this.

I've found dozens (must be hundreds altogether!) of similar error reports on 
the web. No conclusive answers, unfortunately. Since I had the same thing on 
a different PC too (new as well), my guess sofar is some software 
"inconsistancy" or conflict ... I've found several web-messages complaining 
about some of the nVidia drivers and their hardware firewall application 
coming with that new Asus mobo. I have removed part of them, since things 
sofar seem to work without.

The machine has been running for hours now, was restarted several times, 
stood a few program installs w/o problems. What's to be done still is a 
Windows-Update and adding more programs I need.

And also - a new activation within 29 days: They don't make it easy for us: 
One has to enter 42 numerals and to promise that there's only this single 
installation (which is the truth here). But what are we suspected to do? 
Putting my HDD into my backup machine was new activation #1, moving it back 
into the new PC was #2, swapping the HDD because of setup failure and 
reboots was #3 - #4 is due in a few days - the thought that I might have 
problems again lets me cringe ... good example for what a monopolist can do 
with customers ;-/

I'm btw planning to fully clone my HDD as soon as it's ok, sitting there 
beside my desk expecting the next big bang ;-)  I guess I can only run this 
backup XP instance for periodic checks since I can't activate it w/o buying 
a new license.

So ein Mist ....

Schönen Gruss
Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonpan" <jonpan at onlinehome.de>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: New PC + XP reboots again+again


> Do you have the chance to swop the memory modules for others, or 
> temporarily
> just use one? Try it...
>
> Also, under My PC/Properties/Advanced/Startup and Recovery/Settings, clear
> the auto restart box, so you can perhaps see what is happening.
>
> John
> Od/G
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:13 PM
> Subject: TSGL: New PC + XP reboots again+again
>
>
> Hi,
> my latest problem doesn't bother me anymore ;-/
>
> Bought a new machine (pretty good one btw), and have had a hard time
> since... Installed XP anew, and copied several of my old user settings 
> over
> there (desktop & more). Took half a day of installing back my favorite
> programs and tuning things. Then -  with Windows screen on, whenever I
> clicked on a user, the PC did a reboot.
>
> Talked to the vendor, he suggested a software problem. So I moved 
> everything
> over into a different (pretty new) machine. There things seemed to work, 
> but
> after a while same thing here too.
>
> Decided I had copied too many (wrong) old settings over from old machine,
> therefore I went back to my new PC, swiped the C: partition and installed
> again ;-(
>
> Now rebooting is back again ...this time after I installed ZoneAlarm 
> (first
> reboot) and then when I started Win update from MS site - there it 
> rebooted
> 4 times I guess (not the reboots it does normally). Now I'm running HDD
> checks for errors ... don't think there are any, the HDD is 8 month old. 
> Did
> a thorough mem-test as well, no errors there.
>
> I've read on the web that there *can* be problems with some Samsung HDDs - 
> I
> have an ATA and a SATA one ... both 250 GB & pretty new.... Any ideas
> anybody?
>
> Tilman
> (holding my breath for next reboot)