I've been without my computer working for 4 weeks, it has frequent spontaneous reboots while in wind

I've been without my computer working for 4 weeks, it has frequent
spontaneous reboots while in windows, chkdsk, and
safemode, however never reboot's while in the bios or the prompt. I
was able to force it to show me an
error message before it rebooted from an attempt into safe mode, not
sure what to make of this yet, been looking around,
I was wondering if any of you had any idea what i am looking at here.

BAD_POOL_CALLER

Technical Information

*** STOP: 0x000000C2( 0x000000000000000048
0xFFFFFA800002E000
0x000000000000002E
0x0000000068800000 )

The other thing I've noticed is if it's been about a week of having
the computer powered down, I can get into
windows without a problem for an hour or so before it starts having
problems again. Also noticed the BIOS
image at machine startup once displayed a single line of visual
artifacts<a corrupted line>.

Would lead me to think possibly the moterboard or graphics card if
bios image is distorted..doesn't
explain why machine reboot's only occur in windows<or a windows
chkdsk>..windows error detection perhaps.

Thanks.

-Daniel Olen Montoya
4:21 PM 9/1/2007

 

What happens if you boot it up with something like a linux distro live
CD?

You could give the hardware a workout without having anything to do with
Win.

 

wrote:

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Sounds like a heat problem. Open the computer up and clean house. Get
rid of dust wherever you find it. Get a can of compressed air and clean
any fans in the system; case fans, graphics card, and especially the CPU
heatsink and fan. Make sure that all fans are running.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q265879

http://www.smartcomputing.com/techsupport/detail.aspx?guid=&ErrorID=21385

A couple of examples here, but also check in your Event Viewer
for errors, that might help.

bw..

 

wrote @r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:

I might concur with Rob V, on the heat thing.

The STOP: error should look like this:

STOP: 0x000000c2 (0x00000048, 0x etc.

There can only be 8 characters after the x. Is this Win2K? See here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q265879/

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory
/browse_thread/thread/e99f7a43ec95b1af/af4d4de9207319e4?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1
#af4d4de9207319e4

or the same link, shortened:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/229sx5

I'd first try the instructions for heat & if the computer runs longer
than an hour !AND! if you are handy<if not, take your computer to a
trusted geek>, I would also reseat the heatsink on the processor with
new thermal grease.

Insist to said geek *specifically* to use Arctic Silver....;o)