Well, i have:
Intel P4 3.0Ghz(HT enabled)
1Gb of RAM(Motherboard supports up to 2Gb)
nVidia FX5500 256MB Memory
3 HDDs:(please ignore the dots)
…Seagate IDE 160Gb (50Gb for Windows XP-frequently used & 110Gb for data)
…Seagate SATA 120Gb (for Data)
…Maxtor 40Gb (for Windows Vista)
…(Therefore, i have 4 drives in “My Computer”: C:, D:, E: & F: )
Motherboard: Asus P5V800-MX(supports Intel Pentium D)
1 CD-ROM
1 CD/DVD+-R/RW
1 expansion card installed(Winfast Global-for recording videos)
I am a massive internet user(I download alot), multi-tasker(surfing the net while copying files, downloading, printing & etc.), data keeper and absolutely NOT a PC gamer – I use my computer for personal use, education and sometimes business. I edit pictures at 3k-20k pixel sizes, create HD videos, making flash, edit sounds, etc.
While watching Eagle Eye movie(copied the file from DVD to HDD) on my XP, my computer restarted on itself. After startup, it showed “recovered from a system failure. A log file has been created” why is that?. I restarted my PC again but, now, it takes more than 30mins loading the startup. I restarted my system again, but this time i used the Vista do some check disks and defrags. I still get the self restart while watching Eagle’s Eye on Vista. I suspected that there should be something wrong. I checked the CPU fan and temp, they’re: 1950-2000RPM and 42C-51C(are these values normal?) or have i just loaded lots of HDDs? or should i need upgrade system: buy new CPU, add more RAMs and buy higher display cards? or is my OS corrupted* and needs a reformat as well as installation?
*Recently, XP showed an error about Dr. Watson(what this?) and then laggs. No errors in my Vista.
Any suggestions, explanations, & tips on how to avoid sys failure? Tnx alot!
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The movie has probably got some bad coding. Also you said your CPU temp was 42C-51C? That’s not really bad, but Intel recommends they run at 38C and below. Well 51C is getting pretty hot and I wouldn’t let my system run that hot.
If your computer consistently restarts when you watch the same movie then it might be that the file is corrupted in some way or simply uses some encoding that doesn’t work well with either:
your movie player software
your the codecs used by said player
your video or sound drivers
your video or sound hardware
triggering a bug (or a chain of bugs) that eventually leads to hardware error or critical OS error and the system restart.
You should try updating everything listed above… well, except the hardware, that is, and see if the problem goes away.
Dr. Watson probably refers to the postmortem debugger, a program used to generate debug information after something on your sistem crashed. You can find some more info about Dr. Watson by following the link below. According to this page, Dr. Watson is triggered when an app crashes due to problems in user code, so if it starts prior to restart when you view the movie, the problem is likely with either the player or the codecs, since drivers run in kernel and not user mode.
I would format, reinstall, then make sure all my drivers were up to date, especially the video card. I’d also download the latest K-Lite Codec Pack (if you don’t already have it) for smoother playback. Then I’d re-rip Eagle Eye to make sure it wasn’t some odd rip failure.
Sounds like a pretty odd scenario. Maybe you somehow got a virus from all of your internet activity. Anyway, good luck.