i also have this problem, but is when i playing DOTA on my pc, please help.

urgent !!

i keep on getting the blue screen saying "driver_irql_not_less_or_equal". what's the solution?

need some help here..
actually i dont know where to post this problem,hope it is ok with this topic.

my prob is about my pc always hang when shakes(gegaran) occured..so i restart the pc but fail to progress into windows and bsod occured display msg something like system32 file is missing..so i need to reformat it again,this problem always happened even little shaking occured(kekadang tersepak cpu ckit j)..i think this all related to hardisk problem..hope some helps from experts here..

Could b ram issue. Try placing 1 stick at a time.

Anyway here's my prob, sometimes after saving the overclock setting, my pc will power down for about 2 sec instead of restart. Izzit coz of my psu? I've already rma the  psu, now only using cap ayam brand

Try tukar hard disk, pinjam kawan punye jap ke. Hard disk ada bunyi pelik2 tak?

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but what the heck eh.

I recently bought a PC, spec:
AMD Athlon X2 4400+, stock cooler, Asus M2N-E bios 1102, 1GBx2 Mushkin EM2 DDR800 RAM, XFX GeForce 8600GT (650m), Cooler Master 430w Extreme Power, Microsoft Windows XP Home (SP2) original

What I've encountered:
- Windows hanged once for no particular reason (it went to blank screen because it was left for more than 20 mins). Tried to move the mouse or keyboard (after 1 hour, went somewhere), nothing happen. Had to cold restart. Even tried the Numlock key, always on no matter how many times I pressed it.

- Windows shutdowned by itself (freaky). This, too, happened when I left the PC for more than an hour (went to bed).

For both incidents, there are NO BSoD, NO Kernel Dump/Minidump.
Both only happened once.

If it's Windows, I've installed all the latest patches. If it's the motherboard, I've just had it switched a couple days ago. So, it might be the CPU or the PSU. I don't think it's the graphics card.

It didn't happen (restarts, shutdowns, BSoDs, etc.) when I:
- play games (CPU/GPU intensive games like Oblivion)
- benchmark using 3DMark06 1.1.0
- surf
- doing work

It only happens when I go to sleep.
Need

Thanks in advanced!

It happened again last night.

Well, the temperature shouldn't be a problem. If temperature was the cause of the shutdown, my pc would have shutdown when I was playing intense games like Oblivion, Gears of War, etc. Correct?

The thing is, I left it in Locked Mode (Win+L) and went to sleep. When I woke up, it was off.

Can a power surge do this? This doesn't happen when I bring my pc to my place. Only happens when I'm at my parents'.

Dear sifoos and otais,

Guess what, I also have this bewildering auto-restart problem (with 'clacking' sound from inside the PC right before it restarts). Please refer right away to my minidump attachment which runs from 2th Nov to about an hour ago (28th Nov).

From my side, here are some observations/info on this 'problem':

Info: The PC is a P4 with 1GB DDR RAM. Two IDEs connected to two Western Digital hard disks. Another two IDEs were connected to Samsung DVD ROM and TDK CDRW. Oddly, only one of the two CD/DVD drives can be detected by Windows. I removed the IDE from TDK CDRW so that I can use the Samsung DVD ROM to play movies. The movies were often found sluggish and stuttering, and worse, resulted in auto-restart.
My step: I disconnected both the IDEs for Samsung DVD ROM and TDK CDRW. So the PC IDEs are only connected to the two HDDs. Auto-restart still occurs.

Info: One of the auto-restarts gave me a Windows error message "Your computer has just recovered from a serious error" and when I clicked "Send Report to Microsoft", there is a Microsoft website diagnostic page that says some problem related to my CA eTrust Antivirus.
My step: I uninstalled CA eTrust Antivirus and put in !Avast Home Edition, which is said to be the best AV software out there. The random auto-restart still occurs although the Windows error message "Your computer has just recovered from a serious error" no longer appears.

Info: Suspected of virus/worm/trojan problem which can also result in random auto-restart.
My step: I did a comprehensive scan by !Avast Home Edition and it did find a Win32:Trojan of some sort. I quarantined the infected file(s) but auto-restart still occurs. I decided to delete the infected files afterwards. Auto-restart still occurs.

Awaiting for a saviour

try avr at ur parents place and c.

Yeah, I'm using AVR all the time. Unless the power at my parents' place is really unstable. But I doubt that.

hi... noobie here... juz wanna rectify my prob... my pc auto restart everytime i switch it on... initially, it was like once den l8ly it had worsen and now everytime i switch on the pc, it will automatically restart like 4-5 times before i get to start the windows... if dis prob had been posted b4 den i'm very sry but i dun hav the time to flip bac 20+ pages in this thread to rectify my prob... some1 plz help