Computer Restarts By Itself :(

[Chris Villeneuve]

My computer shuts down randomly by itself. I have no clue what's going on and I've been at it for about 3 weeks.

If you have a few minutes, download this:

http://www.twistingvision.ca/computer_restart.pdf

To see my problem in detail. I didn't want to post a huge amount of text, so I made a pdf instead.

Thanks for any help I can get,
Chris

 

[Major_A]

Get memtest86 and let it run for a while. Sounds like bad RAM to me.

 

[Chris Villeneuve]

I tried gold memory and it said the memory was fine.

I guess I can try the one you suggested too.

 

[Tigerbiten]

From Microsoft support.
If your running Windozes XP.

The STOP 0xC000021A error occurs when either Winlogon.exe or Csrss.exe fails. When the Windows NT kernel detects that either of these processes has stopped, it stops the system and raises the STOP 0xC000021A error. This error may have several causes, including, but not limited to the following:

Mismatched system files have been installed.
A Service Pack installation has failed.
A backup program that as used to restore a hard disk did not correctly restore files that may have been in use.
An incompatible third party program been installed.

The full page is Here.

If not XP then input you OS and pulg the code in.

Luck.........

 

[Chris Villeneuve]

That's my problem though, I've read that about 100 times and I have no idea what any of this:

Mismatched system files have been installed.
A Service Pack installation has failed.
A backup program that as used to restore a hard disk did not correctly restore files that may have been in use.
An incompatible third party program been installed.

means

 

[Major_A]

Have you tried to reinstall Windows?

 

[RancidWAnnaRIot]

maybe running a rescue instillation would work?