To start, I have not installed any new devices on this computer recently. I had just installed kotor2 (a game) and had been playing for a few hours when my computer rebooted. I was a little perturbed, but hoped it was an isolated incident. Well, it did the same thing when I rebooted and played for a few more minutes. I installed the program on my other hard drive (on reboot chkdsk ran a check on the disk the game was installed on and found a few errors). Well, now my computer crashed while I was installing the game. When it rebooted, it got to the screen where the blue bar scrolls across under the XP logo, and it rebooted from here, too. Overall, it has rebooted many times, every time in one of three situations:
1. Playing a game (I tried another game, too, and it rebooted from here, too.)
2. Installing software
3. While booting
I got a stop code on one crash -- 0X8E , along with a reference to win32k.sys
The computer seems to be perfectly stable when just using it for things like internet browsing, writing this post, and the like. At first, I thought the problem may be the power supply (turbolink 350w), but after reading other posts, memory seems to be tied to this issue. My build is about 8 months old, and I have 1 GB of Corsair XMS PC3200 ram. All the rest of my system specs are in a link in my signature.
Does anyone know anything about this error or what I could do to isolate the problem?
1. Playing a game (I tried another game, too, and it rebooted from here, too.)
2. Installing software
3. While booting
I got a stop code on one crash -- 0X8E , along with a reference to win32k.sys
The computer seems to be perfectly stable when just using it for things like internet browsing, writing this post, and the like. At first, I thought the problem may be the power supply (turbolink 350w), but after reading other posts, memory seems to be tied to this issue. My build is about 8 months old, and I have 1 GB of Corsair XMS PC3200 ram. All the rest of my system specs are in a link in my signature.
Does anyone know anything about this error or what I could do to isolate the problem?