Monitor goes black and pc reboots

hi there,
my problem is that after desktop loads on Win XP, i get a black screen (but seems to me its just covering the desktop cause i can still see a little part of it on the side) and after that, the computer reboots. This just happens sometimes.
I believed it could be a malware problem but after I did all the cleaning, the problem persisted.

I got this BSOD error report:

*** STOP: 0x00000078 (0xF7B79524, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I executed chkdsk but apparently nothing happened.

help please

 

There is VERY little information available about 0x00000078 errors, and what is available relates primarily to Windows NT. It may be a memory problem (run a RAM diagnostic to check the memory's physical integrity) or maybe run an in-depth test on your hard drive and make sure it's healthy. You can download the free hard drive test from your hard drive manufacturer's web site. Here's some info from Microsoft about your error. It's for NT but you can check and see if it will work for you also (some NT stuff works with XP).

You can also take a look at this (also for NT) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188831/en-us

Good luck!

(since this is for NT, I accept no responsibility if applying this info causes more problems - BE CAREFUL! Make a back up of the registry before doing ANYTHING!)

 

How do I run RAM diagnostic?

 

Ok i checked the hard disk for errors and nothing was found. But the problem's still there. The pc crashed again and i got another BSOD:

***STOP: 0x00000024
(0x001902FE, 0xF40C32B8, 0xF40C2FB4, 0x2F11804F)

I havent ran a RAM diagnostic yet cause i don't know how to.
hope to hear from u soon

 

It's not the ram, i checked it and its alrgiht. I just cleaned the insides, remove all the dust and stuff. The fans are working alright too, and the problems presists. But I noticed that whenever the computer crashes or reboots, there's like a "click" sound somewhere, i cant figure out what is it. any ideas?

 

Did you test the RAM by running MemTest86 at bootup? If not, how did you test the RAM?

Another cause of the stop error 24 is the hard disk drive controller. I wonder if the click you re hearing is from the hard drive?

 

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35246

 

plodr, i checked the ram just the way it's described on the previous post.
I hear the click somewhere near the hard drive so it might be it. But i also checked it before with seatools (a program for maxtor disks, mine is maxtor.) and no problems were found. tell me more about that driver problem, maybe that coudl help

 

Not driver but the hard disk drive controller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_controller
hen this goes out, the hd and the CPU stop talking to each other.
I don't know if it could click. I'm thinking back to the days when the Iomega zip drives were supposed to be the next great thing. Then lots of them started clicking and the drive became toast. I sold my zip drive before I heard the click of death.