Brand new install reboots without error ever 2-3 minutes

[SeanAIX430]

Well I reformatted a old PC installed 2k Pro nice and fresh it worked fine got all the software loaded and then made the mistake of patching it all the way up to SP4 etc took it to my friends house and now the thing reboots every once in a while when you click on something. It's a random occurence, first time it was opening the D:, bang black screen. Then opening outlook, bang. So I'm planning on just doing a reinstall, I'll just copy over the winnt folder that's already there and then reinstall the programs. BUT, if anyone has a better suggestion I'm all ears! Thanks

 

[michbar]

Before you go to all that trouble perhaps we can figure out what is causing the problem. Right click on My Computer, go to Properties. Click on the Advanced Tab. Click Start up and Recovery. Make sure Write an event to the system log is checked and uncheck Automatically reboot. This should cause an error message to be displayed instead of just a reboot. Also go to the event viewer and look at the system events. See if there are any errors at the time of the reboots. Let us know what you find.

 

[packdragon]

I might be wrong, but I think it's generally better to install all patches and SPs BEFORE you install the rest of your software. Then you'll know which piece of software is conflicting with it.

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[SeanAIX430]

STOP unexpected kernel mode trap

that's the newset and greatest error. MS says that's either a software or hardware error and then recommends replacing RAM and any other cards in the PC, so not real helpful.

I'm just going to do a reinstall of the OS. Thanks for you comments!

 

[varuna]

RAM!
My Guess is Memory! try reseating the memory chips...

No Pain No Gain

 

[bcastner]

Do an extended test of RAM:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

Win2k and XP are much more demanding on RAM and RAM quality than previous Windows versions.