Any ideas? it happens if i try to open up any management program in windows
(computer management, services, device manager, etc)
Thanks alot guys! I’m at work right now, I’ll give it a try as soon as I get home 
Thanks for the Info…
My computer restarts on its own during start up and while I’m in Windows. It can keep restarting 10 times in a row during start up and then when it finally loads Windows it will restart when I start doing something. It can also load up Windows fine and then keep restarting when it loads Windows 10 times in a row.
The weird thing is, when I load a game (WarCraft III) when the computer successfully loads Windows and doesn’t restart the computer I can run the game for hours and the computer will never restart. Whereas when I do get Windows to load fine and start doing things the computer will eventually restart after an hour or so.
I’ve unchecked auto restart on system failure but it restarts anyways so thats no help. What could be the problem?
Quick summary: Computer restarts on its own before Windows loads and also while I’m in Windows. If I manage to open WarCraft III before it restarts again it stays on and NEVER restarts aslong as I am in the game.
Have you tried going to “Start” > “Run” > type in “regsvr32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\mmcndmgr.dll” (without the quotes) > OK ?
If that command doesn’t work, try “regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\system32\mmcndmgr.dll”.
I recently installed windows xp on a computer and now there’s no sound. Its an on board sound card. When I go to check out the volume, it tells me that there’s no sound card. The sound was working fine till I reinstalled windows. help :nunchuck:
I would reinstall the drivers to see if that works first but the driver pack I found for it isn’t installing because I don’t know what version of the driver I need.
whats the best “x264” movie player ?? I have bunch of x264 720p format movies but most of them are out of sync. I am using combined community codec pack and zoomplayer. anyone have anything on this ??
i ended up just reinstalling. lol
Make sure that the sound card is activated in the BIOS.
Go to Control Panel > System > Hardware Tab > Device Manager and check for a driver there. It will probably have either a red question mark or a yellow exclamation mark on it. Remove the device from the system and reboot. Windows should install the device if it can find a clean driver for it. If not, you will have to force an update to a known good driver by using the “Install from a list or specific location” option and then tell it “Don’t search, I will choose the driver to install” select anything you want form the list it really doesn’t matter, and click the “Have disk” option. Direct it to the folder where you installed the driver files and your system should have a good clean set of drivers for your sound card.
Run your computer in Safe mode and see if the problem still occurs. If it does, then it’s a hardware problem if it doesn’t it’s software related which could mean anything from a driver corruption or incompatibility or some stupid program that runs at startup.
thanks and good looks. i have a xp. i have a round 2.34gb left from a 55.8gb( though my whole thing is split in two xps, both are 55.8 gbs for different users.) im doing disk cleanup now thanks. also can either of you tell me more on getting another drive. will any of my data be lost if i put in another one? thanks i appreciate it.
You have your computer set up really wierdly. You don’t have to intall windows on two separate partitions for different users. Windows XP is designed to allow users to share the same install without interrupting each other. Just create two separate accounts and you’re done and you can use the entire drive together.
No, you won’t loose data if you install a separate drive. It just extends your storage capacity. What do you have on your drive that is taking up that much space? Music? movies? You’re probably better off burning it all to DVD and deleting it from your drive. But if you insist… Newegg.com sells them anywhere from 40 GB to 750 GB. :tup:
This isn’t a computer problem per se, it with my phone but it’s a windows Mobile error so maybe someone still knows how to fix it.
When I’m listening to music through Windows Media player, it will randomly switch songs after a few seconds into it (sometimes over a minute into the song). When I look at the error message it says “An unknown error 0x800700E has occured”.
Anyone know how to fix that?
Alright, having issues with this new build.
First, the parts:
Abit IP35 Pro
Intel Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
2 GB of Crucial Ballistix Ram at DDR2 800
2 Lite-on burners Model Number LH-20A1H186C
1 WD 150GB Raptor
2 160 GB Seagates
1 320 GB Seagate
1 500 GB Seagate
Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy Live
This thing was working fine for about a month, and I had overclocked it to 2.8. Last week I tried to overclock to 3.2 and it gave me a few stability issues, so I downclocked it back to 2.8. However, it’s STILL giving me some stability issues. Random lockups and reboots, and I also remember getting a BIOS checksum error that also mentioned a floppy drive (though I think I fixed this by disabling the Floppy Drive controller; then again, I think I got the same errors). I tried to run memtest86+ on booting up, and the program froze, leading me to believe that it’s faulty RAM at the moment. However, I just tried to put a Cd into my drives, and it restarted. As of now, I’ve disabled the CD drives, and hope to run Prime95 overnight to see how stable this thing is.
As of now though, would it seem like I have faulty RAM? What bothers me is that it worked fine for about a month, then gives me all this crap. Perhaps I shouldn’t have tried to overclock to 3.2?
Any ideas? It’s a lot of issues that it’s giving me and I can’t pinpoint what it is. First I think it’s floppy drive, then I think it’s sound card, then I think it’s cd drive…
EDIT: Just got BSOD. This sucks. 
^ If you’re gettin errors on all those different devices, doesn’t it seem likely that it’s your motherboard that’s having problems?
See what the hardware test brings up. I’m no overclocker, but I’d bet you fried your system trying to go from 2.8 GHZ to 3.2 GHZ, which seems like a HUGE jump to me.
Just ran memtest (it randomly started working??) and it came across errors when running. So i’m going to assume it’s the RAM…
You raise an interesting point though Manx. What hardware test do you refer to?
The RAM memtest is a hardware test… RAM is hardware.
Ah ok, thought you meant like an all-encompassing hardware test.
Gonna RMA the RAM today…hopefully it’s just that that’s messed up instead of the whole board…would save me a lot of money…
Lesson learned; if it’s not broke, don’t try to overclock it further.
^ no, only overclock in small increments. Read up and do research on your hardware so you know what it’s capable of and what it’s not.
I was never a fan of Crucial memory. Personal opinion though.
Me neither
too expensive
#1 - G. Skill
#2 - Corsair
#3 - OCZ + Mushkin tied
#5 - Crucial
#5 - Kingston, ONLY IF YOU REALLY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE, SINCE IT’S STILL BETTER THAN PATRIOT, A-DATA, VIKING, AND ALL THE OTHER CRAPPY BRANDS OUT THERE