Jim
December 11th 03, 09:39 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>In the past week I have experienced many problems with my
>pc. I recently downloaded the new DirectX 9.0a, (which i
>had originally thought was the culprit) but now i'm
>thinking otherwise. so here's my problem:
>
>whenever i try to play ANY type of media (videos, music)
>on my computer, it immediately locks up, and reboots
>itself. a week ago i did not have any problems at all.
>it started occuring a couple of reboots after i installed
>DirectX 9.0a, but i dont think that is the cause, because
>last night i completely formatted my C: drive and did a
>fresh install of windows, and as soon as i had it
>installed, i tried opening one of the videos on my
>partitioned media drive, and it immediately froze just as
>before (keep in mind that this is using DirectX 8.1
>now). I've tried updating my Graphics drivers (Nvidia
>GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8X) but that just makes things worse,
>and then the .gif's on my computer appear with inverse
>colors, or are completely blacked out. Sometimes, very
>rarely, when i try to play media, my monitor will shut
>off, then back on and my graphics will be TOTALLY garbled
>and in 640x480 resolution, and an error message pops up
>simply stating "the computer has recovered from a serious
>error, please reboot your system to correct it." or
>something to that effect, but that has only happened 2
>times out of the 20 or 30 that i have tried. also, when
>i try to run "dxdiag" and test the "Direct Redraw", my
>system locks up, and reboots. same with the other Test
>on that same tab (i forget whats its called, and if open
>it up chances are it may shut my system down) but i tried
>before i formatted to decrease my hardware acceleration,
>and disabled write combining on my display options, but
>neither of those helped any at all. i tried
>uninstalling, and reinstalling my graphics card drivers,
>that did not help either. i went to the "manage" option
>by right clicking "My Computer" and under System Tools >
>Event Viewer > Application, i have a couple of errors.
>they are as follows:
>
>Fault bucket 28263751.
>
>and
>
>Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error
>calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.
>
>The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during
>its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line
>44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1
>\eventsystemobj.cpp. (i believe this error could be
>associated to where i was troubleshooting my modem and
>was switching COM ports for it)
>
>but i figured i would paste all of them just to be on the
>safe side. PLEASE someone help me with this. it is
>EXTREMELY annoying and defeats my daily computing
>purposes. i cant even install my audio software and
>drivers (SB Audigy) because it creates the sliding
>taskbar at the top of my desktop, and my computer will
>immediately lock up when i boot up because of it. please
>email me, or reply to this with any help or insight you
>might be able to give me, it will be GREATLY appreciated.
>Thank you. Oh, my system specs are as follows:
>
>Aopen AX4T-II Motherboard
>P4 2.0 GHz
>512 RAMBUS mem
>72 GB Western Digital HD
>GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
>SB Audigy
>TDK CD-RW
>Generic 48x CD-ROM
>Windows XP SP1 with all current critical updates
>DirectX 8.1 (done tried updating to 9.0a, thats when
>problems began)
>10/100 Realtek Ethernet Nic
>
>
>.
>Most likely this is a hardware issue, such as loose
components and/ or connections. Check your video/ display
card and the RAM memory for not being fully seated into
the slots. I would re-seat these items. And check the
cooling fans while your PC case is open, as Rambus RAM
does run hotter than DDSDRAM regular memory. If this will
not correct the problem, either your RAM or the video card
is most likely faulty. So install or run from a floppy
disk a system diagnostic utility to test the hardware.
>In the past week I have experienced many problems with my
>pc. I recently downloaded the new DirectX 9.0a, (which i
>had originally thought was the culprit) but now i'm
>thinking otherwise. so here's my problem:
>
>whenever i try to play ANY type of media (videos, music)
>on my computer, it immediately locks up, and reboots
>itself. a week ago i did not have any problems at all.
>it started occuring a couple of reboots after i installed
>DirectX 9.0a, but i dont think that is the cause, because
>last night i completely formatted my C: drive and did a
>fresh install of windows, and as soon as i had it
>installed, i tried opening one of the videos on my
>partitioned media drive, and it immediately froze just as
>before (keep in mind that this is using DirectX 8.1
>now). I've tried updating my Graphics drivers (Nvidia
>GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8X) but that just makes things worse,
>and then the .gif's on my computer appear with inverse
>colors, or are completely blacked out. Sometimes, very
>rarely, when i try to play media, my monitor will shut
>off, then back on and my graphics will be TOTALLY garbled
>and in 640x480 resolution, and an error message pops up
>simply stating "the computer has recovered from a serious
>error, please reboot your system to correct it." or
>something to that effect, but that has only happened 2
>times out of the 20 or 30 that i have tried. also, when
>i try to run "dxdiag" and test the "Direct Redraw", my
>system locks up, and reboots. same with the other Test
>on that same tab (i forget whats its called, and if open
>it up chances are it may shut my system down) but i tried
>before i formatted to decrease my hardware acceleration,
>and disabled write combining on my display options, but
>neither of those helped any at all. i tried
>uninstalling, and reinstalling my graphics card drivers,
>that did not help either. i went to the "manage" option
>by right clicking "My Computer" and under System Tools >
>Event Viewer > Application, i have a couple of errors.
>they are as follows:
>
>Fault bucket 28263751.
>
>and
>
>Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error
>calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.
>
>The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during
>its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line
>44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1
>\eventsystemobj.cpp. (i believe this error could be
>associated to where i was troubleshooting my modem and
>was switching COM ports for it)
>
>but i figured i would paste all of them just to be on the
>safe side. PLEASE someone help me with this. it is
>EXTREMELY annoying and defeats my daily computing
>purposes. i cant even install my audio software and
>drivers (SB Audigy) because it creates the sliding
>taskbar at the top of my desktop, and my computer will
>immediately lock up when i boot up because of it. please
>email me, or reply to this with any help or insight you
>might be able to give me, it will be GREATLY appreciated.
>Thank you. Oh, my system specs are as follows:
>
>Aopen AX4T-II Motherboard
>P4 2.0 GHz
>512 RAMBUS mem
>72 GB Western Digital HD
>GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
>SB Audigy
>TDK CD-RW
>Generic 48x CD-ROM
>Windows XP SP1 with all current critical updates
>DirectX 8.1 (done tried updating to 9.0a, thats when
>problems began)
>10/100 Realtek Ethernet Nic
>
>
>.
>Most likely this is a hardware issue, such as loose
components and/ or connections. Check your video/ display
card and the RAM memory for not being fully seated into
the slots. I would re-seat these items. And check the
cooling fans while your PC case is open, as Rambus RAM
does run hotter than DDSDRAM regular memory. If this will
not correct the problem, either your RAM or the video card
is most likely faulty. So install or run from a floppy
disk a system diagnostic utility to test the hardware.