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ratbastid · 10-27-2005, 01:02 PM

In the last couple days, my computer has learned a great new trick: rebooting itself. It's doing it every hour or so.

This machine is a 1.33 ghz Athlon with 1.128 gb ram running XP Home SP 2. I recently tried unsuccessfully to install a USB 2 PCI card, but the card wasn't recognized at all by the system, and I suspect the card itself is faulty--the PCI slot worked great with the device I pulled to make room for the new card.

I also just added the 1gb of ram. Prior to this incarnation, it ran Mandrake 9 and had 128mb of ram. Mostly it was a file server, and it was creaky, but it ran. That was a total no-go with XP, obviously, so I filled the two empty RAM slots with 512mb apiece.

That's the past. Here's the present: every time I leave the machine alone for a little while, it reboots itself. When it comes back, it wants to report to MS about having recovered from a serious error. When I let it do that, it brings up this page: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...8f97857&SID=11 about an error in the display driver. The specific error appears to be "Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078)".

I have a GeForce2 MX AGP card in this thing. When I installed XP, Windows recognized it and installed Microsoft's driver. After I started getting these messages, I installed Nvidia's driver for this card, which went in just fine. The problem continued.

I then went Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshooting and turned hardware accell right off. That helped the problem some--it started going longer between magic reboots, but not a lot longer.

Before I did that, it was rebooting itself every time I tried to install Palm Desktop, which I needed on this machine to sync my Treo. Tried it like five times with different settings on the display. It always crapped out right in the middle of the install until I turned off hardware accelleration.

Any suggestions about how to make the machine behave? Is my video card boned? Does XP just generally blow?

10-27-2005, 01:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	The Magic Bouncing Computer In the last couple days, my computer has learned a great new trick: rebooting itself. It's doing it every hour or so. This machine is a 1.33 ghz Athlon with 1.128 gb ram running XP Home SP 2. I recently tried unsuccessfully to install a USB 2 PCI card, but the card wasn't recognized at all by the system, and I suspect the card itself is faulty--the PCI slot worked great with the device I pulled to make room for the new card. I also just added the 1gb of ram. Prior to this incarnation, it ran Mandrake 9 and had 128mb of ram. Mostly it was a file server, and it was creaky, but it ran. That was a total no-go with XP, obviously, so I filled the two empty RAM slots with 512mb apiece. That's the past. Here's the present: every time I leave the machine alone for a little while, it reboots itself. When it comes back, it wants to report to MS about having recovered from a serious error. When I let it do that, it brings up this page: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...8f97857&SID=11 about an error in the display driver. The specific error appears to be "Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078)". I have a GeForce2 MX AGP card in this thing. When I installed XP, Windows recognized it and installed Microsoft's driver. After I started getting these messages, I installed Nvidia's driver for this card, which went in just fine. The problem continued. I then went Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshooting and turned hardware accell right off. That helped the problem some--it started going longer between magic reboots, but not a lot longer. Before I did that, it was rebooting itself every time I tried to install Palm Desktop, which I needed on this machine to sync my Treo. Tried it like five times with different settings on the display. It always crapped out right in the middle of the install until I turned off hardware accelleration. Any suggestions about how to make the machine behave? Is my video card boned? Does XP just generally blow?