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"XP Problem?"

I thought about not writing this here seeing as I thought, "oohh it won't happen again".. Just in case any of you know what the problem might be, it'll be good to know what it is.

Anyhoo. Lately my PC has been restarting by itself, right before it does a blue screen appears, but doesn't stay long enough to read what is on the screen. It's there for literally half a second, then it restarts. Then when it's all loaded and in Windows, it says it has encountered a "serious" error..! And takes me to this site:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/Response.asp?SID=77

I haven't installed a driver recently.. well, there was the webcam - which isn't for XP - so maybe that's the problem. :s

Also, you know when you turn on the computer, you get the black screen, white writing loading before it loads up Windows - what's that called?!
Today it said this:
CMOS Settings Wrong
CMOS Memory Size Wrong
Press F1 to Run SETUP
Press F2 to load default values and continue.

I pressed F2 for a while, still, Windows wouldn't load. That blue screen kept appearing. Then restarting.
Eventually I pressed F1, changed "only" the time, and Windows loaded.
I dare not touch the settings in case it messes anything up!

So, it's been a little unwell today..

Anybody know what the problem might be? It would be much appreciated as always! =D
Thanks.

Seems that it's a problem with Halo and ATI Graphics cards...

I've just gotta play the game in 800x600 now in 'safe mode' for it to work!

Uncle Albert wrote:
> Make sure you're all running signed drivers peeps, otherwise you're
> asking from trouble...especially with that webcam...

Signed driver? I remember reading something about it, but can't remember what. Anyhoo, given up on that webcam now, it wasn't supposed to work with XP in the first place, but still went and downloaded all the drivers for it.. doi! So.. new one methinks! =D

You what??!!

Make sure you're all running signed drivers peeps, otherwise you're asking from trouble...especially with that webcam...

I'm patching Halo to see if that helps, I'm gonna see what drivers I can download too...

This is gonna cost loads on a 33.6k modem at 1p a minute!

The blue screen last's for hardly even a second.

Its a device driver problem - So phi11ip your graphics card driver might be a problem?

Nothing to do with your battery or anything like that!

I just bought Halo and installed it on my Laptop, it's 2.6ghz 512mb RAM and Win XP Pro so there should be no problems.

Wrong.

I was watching the intro movie for Halo and the blue screen appeared for a second, I saw something about a problem at the top, then it restarted.

I can't believe that installing a Microsoft game would cause MS' own operating system to crash!

I saw the blue screen, remembered what you said and came online to post here!

Now I'm annoyed because I wanted to play that game!

It's strange how a battery can go flat inside a computer..!

With the CMOS thing, the battery might be flat! That's happened to a mate of mine, and he just replaced the battery - seemed to work fine.

I get exactly the same problem Ms NY. I just absolutely have no idea on why it happens, but it happens on quite a regular basis, The Microsoft Report babbles on about a Device Driver problem or something.

It's definatly something to do withan incompatability with drivers and XP, but I can never be bothered to work out what driver is causing the problem.