PC Keeps Rebooting

[lynx]

Was the click sound internal or did it come via. your speakers?

Good point.

If it is internal it may well be the HD powering down, in which case it won't be able to write to the Event Log, and may not be able to get enough info to generate a BSOD.

Regards those error logs, they are simply reports about performance monitoring software so they are nothing to do with the cause of your reboot problem, although they may be symptoms of the same thing.

Is your pc overclocked? If so, maybe you are on the limit of stability, increasing Vcore or reducing the overclock may help.

[Samurai]

sound was internal, like i had just pushed my reset button in.

pc is not overclocked.

right now i'm burning everything onto dvd, incase it's a reformat job.

[AcID ZeR0]

It could be a number of things but most probably what lynx said that it's the hard drive.

My old Seagate done that, It started at first doing it once every so often then after a while it started to do it almost 24/7 with a really horrible grinding noise straight after the click noise; I'm certain if it wasn't a slave drive the computer would have locked up every time. Needless to say I got it replaced and the problem went away.

Also, What PSU are you running? Because from what you say every time the pc freezes it's during load i.e games, There could be a possibility it's the PSU you could try to remove CD-Drives, Floppies, Extra fans etc. and try to load a game.

But from my own past experience I'd bet your hard drives on it's way out, Backup whilst you can mate.

[Samurai]

I've just finished backing up everything on my PC and I'm due to do a reformat in the next few minutes. i'm almost certain it's not the hard drive, although i'm not discounting it as a possibility, but i've only had it 3 months and it's as cool as a cucumber. never overheats and it's extremely fast.

after running a search on google it seems that it's down to a reg error, although the instructions it gives were rubbish as some reg keys they suggested going to did not exist, therefore unable to fix.

hopefully the reformat will do the trick.

thanks for all your help, i'll probably see you all in a few hours

[AcID ZeR0]

K goodluck, let us know how it goes!

[Samurai]

I'm back I'm using 1% of my HDD I still have a huge amount to put back onto my PC, such as my music and apps etc... but I was more concerned with getting my fw and av up and running before i did that.

I won't know if my problem will be gone until i install my games and try again.

See ya later

[Samurai]

anyone know why, after a reboot, a directory is loaded at startup as well.

the directory is one in my c:\program files related to my ati drivers

there's nothing in startup / msconfig to do with this. how do i stop it?

[tesco]

Well I started in my game and I heard the 'click' that comes moments before a reboot, and it just froze a few seconds after it. no blue screen. nothing. had to manually reboot pc. i don't know what's wrong!

mine does same thing but not just in games...
at random times.
it's been doing it for months and i've been too lazy to fix it.

i'm making a thread with my wierd findings.

[Samurai]

Yea Rossco, the main reason I have this PC is for my gaming. I can't live without it. Hopefully this reformat will do the trick. It's already fixed a couple of things that I had problems with. All of a sudden, it has recognised my second HDD so now I have a total of 360GB woohoo

Anyway, do you reckon you could help me with this? Let me knoe if you need a ss.

Samurai

anyone know why, after a reboot, a directory is loaded at startup as well.

the directory is one in my c:\program files related to my ati drivers

there's nothing in startup / msconfig to do with this. how do i stop it?

[tesco]

Goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

The 'Userinit' string should read:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,

(including the comma at the end)
If "C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe," appears twice in a row, delete the repetition.


from annoyances.org may work, if you have a repetition.