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EAPOL forces reboot!

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by SonykNinja, 2008/03/03.

  1. 2008/03/03
    SonykNinja

    SonykNinja Inactive Thread Starter

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    For some reason, my computer will reboot itself. I looked through the event viewer logs, and its always EAPOL. It says the service was started successfully. I disabled all the authentications from the network connections window, disabled the smart card, smart card helper, wireless zero configuration, and the network location awareness. I right clicked on my computer, went to advanced tab, opened up the crash thing, and disabled reboot on system failure. didn't work. I went to run, msconfig, and put it into diagnostics startup. it worked for a about 2 minutes until it rebooted (surprise). i went into event viewer and the last entry was that the IMAPI CD-Burning COM service has started successfully.

    I have noticed that only certain programs will force the reboot. 3GP, age of mythology and its expansion, Xvid4PSP are the ones that give me the most problems. most games are fine, word processing, photoshop, firefox, normal activities are usually fine. ive reinstalled xp so many times its not funny!
    :mad: ... i would post the dumps my computer has, but i dont know how to find them.

    please help?http://www.windowsbbs.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
    :confused: I'm at wits end. I run an Emachine with windows xp 5.1.2600 sp1, whitney system CR board, celeron 1gh (x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel), Phoenix 2.3 bios, with 256MB RAM, two hard drives C: (7GB) and F: (76GB)
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    SonykNinja - Welcome to the Board :)

    If you have disabled Restart on System Failure and your computer still reboots it is reasonable to assume that the cause was not a system failure, but due to some other cause.

    Possibilities are overheating, dodgy PSU (power supply unit), failed or failing cooling fans, poor connections between the plug in boards and their sockets, etc.

    I think you are misreading the Event Viewer Entries - EAPOL - the service was started successfully is simply a notification that the service started. The entries to look for under System and Application are those which are flagged with a white cross on a red ground - do you see any of those? Double click on an event to open and on the icon beneath the up/down arrow to copy to clipboard from whence you can paste into a post here.
    Read this thread and post a couple of dump logs .....

    http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=33471

    I am rather amazed that you can run any games with only 256 Mb RAM - that is the minimum, despite what MS may say, that will allow XP to run with any degree of smoothness, but dreadfully slowly. 512 Mb is much better and 1 Gb preferred.
     
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    SonykNinja

    SonykNinja Inactive Thread Starter

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    Nope, im 100% sure its the EAPOL. I have sat with the start bar clock open and try and make it crash. each crash corresponds to an entry for EAPOL, to the second, crash for crash. I have already checked the connections, dusted it out twice(boy did it need that), and im sure that its not the psu. nothing has been upgraded except the thing you plug an ethernet wire into (i cant think of the proper name right now). Ill check all the connections and everything after I post this, though. There are no flags with red backgrounds, except for the 2 caused by firefox crashing(my fault).

    as for the 256 of ram, my computer starts quick, runs quick, quite a few games (warcraft 3, civilization 3, starcraft II, etc.) it might be that i have 512-1024 paging file on my main hard drive?

    i will post the logs shortly...need to catch some sleep, 40+ with no sleep.
     
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