Help - Frequency of Computer Rebooting is Increasing

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In the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that when trying to do multiple
things on the computer, the frequency of fatal error resulting in a reboot
is increasing. It has occurred when doing completely different things. Is
this a potential sign of a certain piece of hardware going bad?

I have a Gateway 500XL PC/2.53GHz P4/512MB DDR SDRAM/128MD NVIDIA GeFore4
Ti4200G/
 
Infoquest said:
In the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that when trying to do multiple
things on the computer, the frequency of fatal error resulting in a reboot
is increasing. It has occurred when doing completely different things. Is
this a potential sign of a certain piece of hardware going bad?

I have a Gateway 500XL PC/2.53GHz P4/512MB DDR SDRAM/128MD NVIDIA GeFore4
Ti4200G/
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Have you been monitoring the temperatures inside your computer? Has the room
temperature been increasing now that Summer is in full swing (mine certainly
has)? Is the inside of the computer squeaky clean to allow maximum airflow?
Are all of the fans working?
 
Air temperature is good. I cleaned up the inside of the computer just in
case.
Here is the consistent error I am getting in the event log.

Category: 102

Event ID: 1003

Error code 000000d1, parameter1 00000020, parameter2 00000002, parameter3
00000000, parameter4 f837d0ff.
 
Air temperature is good. I cleaned up the inside of the computer just in
case.
Here is the consistent error I am getting in the event log.

Category: 102

Event ID: 1003

Error code 000000d1, parameter1 00000020, parameter2 00000002, parameter3
00000000, parameter4 f837d0ff.
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Might be a device driver or the hardware itself.

Try disabling onboard features in bios, removing any hardware
nonessential to booting Windows. See if problem persists, and
incrementally add back hardware (and/or enable the feature in the
bios) if it had ceased, until you notice the problem again.

Disable Windows' "reboot on error" setting.
http://home.earthlink.net/~lreynol929/ruXP/ContPanl/REBOOTOF.HTM
 
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