bug check

[ajoyce]

My computer just randomly restarts itself. I checked the event viewer and this what i got :

\"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xc0000005, 0xba6156d8, 0x00000001, 0x00004e33). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini050903-03.dmp. \"


What is this bugcheck deal and why am i getting it? This is been going on for some time now..I hope somone has the answer for me. Thanks a lot ;-)

[Jazkal2]

This site is a good resource for this type of question. I'm not saying they have all the answers, but they do have a wide membership base.

Check out this post on your error message:

Experts-Exchange.Com

[ajoyce]

This place costs money to even sign up on...anything else?

[Jazkal2]

[quote name=\'ajoyce\' date=\'May 10 2003, 02:46 AM\']This place costs money to even sign up on...anything else?[/quote]
 I signed up for free. didn't cost me anything, and they have a search feature for the database of inforamtion there.

Here's some links to look over:

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- Jazkal

[Ausmith1]

Usually you can get an idea of what driver or utility is crashing the system from the list of loaded drives listed on the BSOD. It's a real pain to have to write them all down though...
SysInternals used to have a great little utility called BlueSave that would save the text on the BSOD to a file before it rebooted the system. It dosn't seem to work on Win2K or XP though.

The first drivers to suspect are almost always the video drivers, run the system in VGA mode for a while and see if it crashes then.

[ajoyce]

Thanks, Im going to try out the above problems and then see if it works. Its really hard to tell somtimes if it works beacuse it will randomly do this. SO it may be a hr to a week before i know for sure. If it is a VGA problem, which I may think (because it seems to do it when a screen changes or somthing with graphics is loading, somtimes) what can I do to fix this problem??? YOu guys have been extremly good help. THanks!!!!

[Ausmith1]

Well if it is a video related problem, then I would first check for updated video card drivers for your system.
If your video card is using a nVidia chip then you could try using nVidia’s latest reference drivers rather than the OEM drivers, same principal goes for any other OEMed video card.

Maybe the problem might be related to some autoloaded program for your video card. Try unloading everything unnecessary from your Autorun and Start folders, use this little utility to help you find them all
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/m....shtml#autoruns
Lots of video card lot up lots of junk that is completely unnecessary. Get rid of anything that you don't use and see if that helps...