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This IS hardware related and not software. Before I upgraded my computer i used to randomly get sudden shutdowns, like the power was cut. On the vaio, it had a 230watt psu, so when it did it i thought it was too much load on it. Wrong.
I thought it was heat, wrong too.
Not the mobo.
Not the ram.
not the ides.
not the psu.
I thought it was the videocard not getting enough power, wrong too, does it on both my tnt2 and ti4200.
It's not windows. I've done countless reinstalls and formats. I had a sony vaio version of XP and a regular XP cd install, both version do it, not software related.
It happened more frequently with my new Audigy 2 and overclocking. Maybe the reason. But never had an audigy before I upgraded for it to do it.
May be overclocking, but it doesnt do it when it's not overclocked, the vaio couldn't over clock and had the shutdowns.
The big suspect. My CD-RW drive. Randomly it would screw up and in my computer the drive would disapear and the computer would hiccup, sound would stop and go, the mouse would be synced to the stop and go...understand? Well....is it my CD-RW? I could test it by removing it, and running the computer a few weeks without my cd-rw....but the shutdowns happened random, so it may not happen in the time period it's removed.
When it boots back up it says windows has recovered from a serious error. I have about 4 i submitted to MS and no response on them. It says it was caused by a driver failure. But what driver!? I do remeber that sometimes i unplug the molex from the cd-rw to get it to stop hiccuping while the comp is running, and sometimes the pins don't all make contact at the same time and the computer hard reboots itself....is it the cd-rw and some power problem with it?
It's a made by sony cd-rw drive....model CRX175E...
I thought it was heat, wrong too.
Not the mobo.
Not the ram.
not the ides.
not the psu.
I thought it was the videocard not getting enough power, wrong too, does it on both my tnt2 and ti4200.
It's not windows. I've done countless reinstalls and formats. I had a sony vaio version of XP and a regular XP cd install, both version do it, not software related.
It happened more frequently with my new Audigy 2 and overclocking. Maybe the reason. But never had an audigy before I upgraded for it to do it.
May be overclocking, but it doesnt do it when it's not overclocked, the vaio couldn't over clock and had the shutdowns.
The big suspect. My CD-RW drive. Randomly it would screw up and in my computer the drive would disapear and the computer would hiccup, sound would stop and go, the mouse would be synced to the stop and go...understand? Well....is it my CD-RW? I could test it by removing it, and running the computer a few weeks without my cd-rw....but the shutdowns happened random, so it may not happen in the time period it's removed.
When it boots back up it says windows has recovered from a serious error. I have about 4 i submitted to MS and no response on them. It says it was caused by a driver failure. But what driver!? I do remeber that sometimes i unplug the molex from the cd-rw to get it to stop hiccuping while the comp is running, and sometimes the pins don't all make contact at the same time and the computer hard reboots itself....is it the cd-rw and some power problem with it?
It's a made by sony cd-rw drive....model CRX175E...