Rebooting problems

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I have a Radeon 9200SE, which came bundled with my computer when it was
purchased. I am using the latest drivers from the ati site. When I am
playing games and sometimes on the desktop, the computer reboots itself.
When it recovers, it sends a error report to microsoft. The site tells me it
was caused by an undertimined driver, but it suspects it was the gfx card.

It suggests that the card drivers get stuck in an infinite loop and then
crashes. It also suggests disabling hardware acceleration. Obviously this is
pointless as it would make the 3d card pointless. Is there any other way
around this that anyone can suggest

Thanks
John
 
I have a Radeon 9200SE, which came bundled with my computer when it was
purchased. I am using the latest drivers from the ati site. When I am
playing games and sometimes on the desktop, the computer reboots itself.
When it recovers, it sends a error report to microsoft. The site tells me it
was caused by an undertimined driver, but it suspects it was the gfx card.

It suggests that the card drivers get stuck in an infinite loop and then
crashes. It also suggests disabling hardware acceleration. Obviously this is
pointless as it would make the 3d card pointless. Is there any other way
around this that anyone can suggest

Thanks
John
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I had the infinite loop issue on a Nvidia card and it was caused by an
inadequate power supply.
 
JF said:
I have a Radeon 9200SE, which came bundled with my computer when it was
purchased. I am using the latest drivers from the ati site. When I am
playing games and sometimes on the desktop, the computer reboots itself.
When it recovers, it sends a error report to microsoft. The site tells me it
was caused by an undertimined driver, but it suspects it was the gfx card.

It suggests that the card drivers get stuck in an infinite loop and then
crashes. It also suggests disabling hardware acceleration. Obviously this is
pointless as it would make the 3d card pointless. Is there any other way
around this that anyone can suggest

Thanks
John
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After further investigation into heat, memory, video. I decided to try a
memory tester, this found some fault in the memory which would go some way
to explaining the crashes. But a lot sites say that one of the main probs of
faulty memory is BSOD which I never get just a reboot. But again windows
always says device driver.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8SGXP, does anyone know if there any
compatability issues with this card and motherboard??

Looking at the specs, it is capable of AGP 4/8x, but running ATI control
center and choosing SMARTGART it always puts the slider to off to maintain
system stability. Does this mean the two are not wholly compatible.

sorry for all the questions, but I am trying to gather as much info as
possible before I call the company that sold me the computer.

Thanks
John
 
After further investigation into heat, memory, video. I decided to
try a memory tester, this found some fault in the memory which would
go some way to explaining the crashes. But a lot sites say that one
of the main probs of faulty memory is BSOD which I never get just a
reboot. But again windows always says device driver.
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Don't believe what windows says :-)

You found out your memory has a problem. Fix this first, before you go
speculating and speculating what else might be wrong. Since you say it
happens both in a game and on the desktop, I'd assume it's not your
videocard.

About your memory, try looser timings, lower speed, removing a module,
switching places, whatever. If you can make the memory error go away, then
you can see if the crashes you were getting are solved or not...
 
Another thing could be your Power Supply. Not enough power would affect the
stability of the memory and computer.
 
Thomas said:
Don't believe what windows says :-)

You found out your memory has a problem. Fix this first, before you go
speculating and speculating what else might be wrong. Since you say it
happens both in a game and on the desktop, I'd assume it's not your
videocard.

About your memory, try looser timings, lower speed, removing a module,
switching places, whatever. If you can make the memory error go away, then
you can see if the crashes you were getting are solved or not...
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Thanks for the reply, I have removed the memory and placed it in another
slot, it was sitting right next to the PSU and was very hot. So far (6
hours) it hasn't crashed, which is a lot longer than it has been lately
 
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