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From: Rudy on 15 Jan 2010 09:18
I'm running Win 2000 Pro with an athlon XP3200/400, Asus Mobo, 2 gig of ram
and a Quadro FX 3600 video card. It's about four years old now. Every once
in a while I get the bsod saying it made a memory dump and the computer was
shut down. It doesn't give a stop eror. When I reboot, it sometimes hangs at
the point where it detects the IDE drives. If I jostle the machine with a
smack it reboots into windows. It sounds like somethings loose somewhere.
Maybe in the HDD? I took it apart and blew it all out and re -seated cables
and such. The bsod will show up when nothing is going on, the computer is
just sitting there. Thanks for any ideas.

Rudy



From: Toolpackinmama on 15 Jan 2010 12:53
On 1/15/2010 9:18 AM, Rudy wrote:
> I'm running Win 2000 Pro with an athlon XP3200/400, Asus Mobo, 2 gig of ram
> and a Quadro FX 3600 video card. It's about four years old now. Every once
> in a while I get the bsod saying it made a memory dump and the computer was
> shut down. It doesn't give a stop eror. When I reboot, it sometimes hangs at
> the point where it detects the IDE drives. If I jostle the machine with a
> smack it reboots into windows. It sounds like somethings loose somewhere.
> Maybe in the HDD? I took it apart and blew it all out and re -seated cables
> and such. The bsod will show up when nothing is going on, the computer is
> just sitting there. Thanks for any ideas.

Well, gee, hmm. I don't think you should be smacking your computer. If
something is loose, something like that won't tighten it.

Did you try reseating the video card, the ram, things like that? You
said "cables and such" but I am not sure what you mean by that.

From: shegeek72 on 15 Jan 2010 13:26
On Jan 15, 6:18 am, "Rudy" <rudyk...(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm running Win 2000 Pro with an athlon XP3200/400, Asus Mobo, 2 gig of ram
> and a Quadro FX 3600 video card. It's about four years old now. Every once
> in a while I get the bsod saying it made a memory dump and the computer was
> shut down. It doesn't give a stop eror. When I reboot, it sometimes hangs at
> the point where it detects the IDE drives. If I jostle the machine with a
> smack it reboots into windows. It sounds like somethings loose somewhere.
> Maybe in the HDD? I took it apart and blew it all out and re -seated cables
> and such. The bsod will show up when nothing is going on, the computer is
> just sitting there. Thanks for any ideas.

When you re-seated 'cables and such' did you re-seat the RAM and cards
as well (as another poster suggested)? If so, it sounds like a HD
beginning to fail. Run scan disk on the HD (the complete scan, not the
quick one) and if there are any bad clusters you need a new one. Also,
d/l a HD check utility from the manufacturer and run it. If the HD
checks out ok it's another component or software.

From: Paul on 15 Jan 2010 20:35
Rudy wrote:
> I'm running Win 2000 Pro with an athlon XP3200/400, Asus Mobo, 2 gig of ram
> and a Quadro FX 3600 video card. It's about four years old now. Every once
> in a while I get the bsod saying it made a memory dump and the computer was
> shut down. It doesn't give a stop eror. When I reboot, it sometimes hangs at
> the point where it detects the IDE drives. If I jostle the machine with a
> smack it reboots into windows. It sounds like somethings loose somewhere.
> Maybe in the HDD? I took it apart and blew it all out and re -seated cables
> and such. The bsod will show up when nothing is going on, the computer is
> just sitting there. Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Rudy
>

Depending on the kind of memory dump, you can read the error out with
a Microsoft utility like "dumpchk". But that is unnecessary, if you
can get the BSOD screen to stand still.

In Windows, there is an option to not immediately reboot when a BSOD
happens. If you use that, then you can take your time recording the
details of the BSOD.

Control Panels:System:Advanced:Startup and Recovery:untick Automatically restart

You can test the hardware in your computer. Memtest86+ has several options
for the media it can be installed on, and it tests all your memory.
Run it for a couple complete passes of the Pass counter. No errors
are acceptable in here, if you see any. This test would run forever,
until you press <esc> and make the computer reboot into regular Windows.

http://www.memtest.org/

If you have a popular brand name hard drive, then if you go to the hard
drive maker's web site, they have diagnostic software. For example, I have
Seagate drives, and I use "Seatools for DOS" to test them.

Maybe by doing a bit of testing, as well as writing down your future
BSODs, you'll get a better handle on the problem. In particular, the
names of any drivers identified in the BSOD, may help point to things
like a failing video card.

Paul
From: Rudy on 16 Jan 2010 12:35

"Rudy" <rudykube(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
news:hKednRgtHPxN5M3WnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d(a)giganews.com...
> I'm running Win 2000 Pro with an athlon XP3200/400, Asus Mobo, 2 gig of
> ram and a Quadro FX 3600 video card. It's about four years old now. Every
> once in a while I get the bsod saying it made a memory dump and the
> computer was shut down. It doesn't give a stop eror. When I reboot, it
> sometimes hangs at the point where it detects the IDE drives. If I jostle
> the machine with a smack it reboots into windows. It sounds like
> somethings loose somewhere. Maybe in the HDD? I took it apart and blew it
> all out and re -seated cables and such. The bsod will show up when nothing
> is going on, the computer is just sitting there. Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Rudy
>
> Hi

I ran WD diaognostics with no errors. Ran Memtest for a couple of hours with
no errors. I'll have to see if it happens again and really check closely for
hints in the blue screen.

Rudy
>


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