not PS, but now random restarts ?

[terrybear]

Update:
disconnected reset wire on case,
reduced gpu clock to 1.18 ghz

System has ran stable since doin so & not doing anything graphicaly intense ...

Then this morning about 20 minutes ago ... jumped into my 1 game combat arms ... was able to play for around 1-2 hrs .... THEN again system hung n rebooted. Gpu temps with fan @ 42% where 37c in game during gameplay ....

Thoughts that maybe it's the gpu gettin weak(er)?

[terrybear]

Here's another thought .... might a dying soundcard plausable cause a system to hang/reboot randomly ..... just tried not playin any music in the background on my pc & in the 5-6 hrs of online gaming in the 2 games I play ... it never did it other then the games themselves crashing. My X-fi's around 3 yrs old now ?

thanks

[Soultribunal]

Best way to trouble shoot is yank the card out and see if the problem repeats itself.

-ST

[terrybear]

I finaly got the windebug program on my pc & here is some of what the last 4-5 errors have been sayin when the total restart/reboot of the pc has occured while gaming or watching a video:

"FAULTING_MODULE: fffff80002c10000 nt
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 501344d9
WRITE_ADDRESS: unable to get nt!MmSpecialPoolStart
unable to get nt!MmSpecialPoolEnd
unable to get nt!MmPoolCodeStart
unable to get nt!MmPoolCodeEnd
000000fff1682464
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
FAULTING_IP:
atikmdag!ulControllerSetCfg+728
fffff880`048fae10 ?? ???
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xD1
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff80002c8e769 to fffff80002c8f1c0
STACK_TEXT:
fffff880`15fce8c8 fffff800`02c8e769 : 00000000`0000000a 000000ff`f1682464 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000001 : nt+0x7f1c0
fffff880`15fce8d0 00000000`0000000a : 000000ff`f1682464 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000001 fffff880`048fae10 : nt+0x7e769
fffff880`15fce8d8 000000ff`f1682464 : 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000001 fffff880`048fae10 fffff880`15fce940 : 0xa
fffff880`15fce8e0 00000000`00000002 : 00000000`00000001 fffff880`048fae10 fffff880`15fce940 00000000`00000000 : 0xff`f1682464
fffff880`15fce8e8 00000000`00000001 : fffff880`048fae10 fffff880`15fce940 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x2
fffff880`15fce8f0 fffff880`048fae10 : fffff880`15fce940 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x1
fffff880`15fce8f8 fffff880`15fceba0 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : atikmdag!ulControllerSetCfg+0x728
fffff880`15fcea78 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0xfffff880`15fceba0

STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
atikmdag!ulControllerSetCfg+728
fffff880`048fae10 ?? ???
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 6
SYMBOL_NAME: atikmdag!ulControllerSetCfg+728
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: atikmdag
IMAGE_NAME: atikmdag.sys
BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS"

"MODULE_NAME: dxgkrnl
FAULTING_MODULE: fffff80002c67000 nt
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 4ce799fa
WRITE_ADDRESS: unable to get nt!MmSpecialPoolStart
unable to get nt!MmSpecialPoolEnd
unable to get nt!MmPoolCodeStart
unable to get nt!MmPoolCodeEnd
0000000000000003
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
FAULTING_IP:
nt+89d20
fffff800`02cf0d20 ?? ???
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xA
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff80002ce5769 to fffff80002ce61c0
STACK_TEXT:
fffff880`02f8c308 fffff800`02ce5769 : 00000000`0000000a 00000000`00000003 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000001 : nt+0x7f1c0
fffff880`02f8c310 00000000`0000000a : 00000000`00000003 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000001 fffff800`02cf0d20 : nt+0x7e769
fffff880`02f8c318 00000000`00000003 : 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000001 fffff800`02cf0d20 fffff880`052c74ab : 0xa
fffff880`02f8c320 00000000`00000002 : 00000000`00000001 fffff800`02cf0d20 fffff880`052c74ab 00000000`00000000 : 0x3
fffff880`02f8c328 00000000`00000001 : fffff800`02cf0d20 fffff880`052c74ab 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x2
fffff880`02f8c330 fffff800`02cf0d20 : fffff880`052c74ab 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x1
fffff880`02f8c338 fffff880`052c74ab : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt+0x89d20
fffff880`02f8c340 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : dxgkrnl+0x14ab

STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
dxgkrnl+14ab
fffff880`052c74ab ?? ???
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 7
SYMBOL_NAME: dxgkrnl+14ab
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
IMAGE_NAME: dxgkrnl.sys
BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS"

It also mentioned in 1 of the dialog boxes something about "DXgadaptor" error ?

So far im now thinking plausably the videocard maybe is causing this ?

[terrybear]

So can anyone tell me if this is just a software error or possibly hardware error in the videocard itself? I know I also did some open gl/cl mem test on the videocards memory a few days back & it reported some kinda errors in the ram it tested.