Why does my pc reboot itself during large transfers?

Almost everytime I transfer large files from on Hard drive to the other during the middle of the transfer my pc decides to reboot. I got tired of doing the copy and paste thing so I used Bulletproof server (since I already had it) and Flash FXP to up load files to another hard drive. I thought at one time it was my driver for my video card so I reinstalled a later version. It worked for a while but know its doing it again.

Please Help...

 

ok, I'm a bit cornfused..

are you transferring files from one pc to another over a network or from Hard Drive to Hard Drive in one pc?


on a side note. The items in your sig would not help us very much at all in most troubleshooting scenarios.

 

it restarts when I try to transfer from each hardrive, or during a cd burn, or during a large file being unrared. Not all the time, just 3-4 times a day.

 

ok, so it's not limited to the network so it means it must be on the pc. Have you updated your chipset drivers?

 

How do I updat my chipset drivers?

 

what kind of mother board do you have?

 

how do I find that out? sorry....

 

Try Aida32. That should get you the model and make of your mobo.

It might be a power issue, if it isn't the chipset. Have you recently added new hardware? Do you know the wattage of your power supply? Does the system reboot when you are playing 3d games as well?

It also might be bad RAM, but that isn't too likely.

 

Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID 63--0099990000-00101111-071595-CAMINO$0AAPR000
Motherboard Name Unknown

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel GTL+
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 133 MHz
Effective Clock 133 MHz
Bandwidth 1067 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type Dual RDRAM
Bus Width 16-bit
Real Clock 400 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 800 MHz
Bandwidth 3200 MB/s

Chipset Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel Hub Interface_A
Bus Width 8-bit
Real Clock 67 MHz (QDR)
Effective Clock 267 MHz
Bandwidth 267 MB/s
Chipset Properties
Motherboard Chipset Intel Carmel i840
In-Order Queue Depth 8

 

BIOS Properties
BIOS Type AMI
System BIOS Date 04/03/00
Video BIOS Date 02/07/15

BIOS Manufacturer
Company Name American Megatrends Inc.
Product Information http://www.ami.com/amibios

Problems & Suggestions
Suggestion System BIOS is more than 2 years old. Update it if necessary.

when I try to update my bios, it takes me to a form to fill out and have someone call me. I dont want anyone calling me. I want to update my bios

 

ok, it's an i840 chipset. Is this a prefab machine like a Dell or HP etc? Sometimes their drivers are different than the ones from Intel. So I want to make sure.

 

If you have enabled LargeSystemCache(WinNT,2k,XP,2k3 only) so the file is loaded in memory while copying, then the problem might be that one of your RAM-modules has a damaged memory cell which is accessed when the file loaded in memory.
Try a memtest if this is the case.

*Update* Also if you are using WinXP then turn off Auto-Restart and write down what is written on the blue screen of death.

 

Its a gateway pc

 

How do I access the controls to turn this off? The blue screen will give me info on what went wrong right?

 

To disable LargeSystemCache:

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Click the Switch to Classic View
3. Open the System
4. Go to the Advanced-tab
5. Press Performance-Settings-Button
6. Go to the Advanced-tab
7. Unselect the "System Cache" option
8. Click OK
9. Click OK
10. Restart the computer

To disable Auto-Reboot:

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Click the Switch to Classic View
3. Open the System
4. Go to the Advanced tab
5. Press the Startup and Recovery-Settings-Button
6. Uncheck the Automatically Restart of the System Failure
7. Click OK
8. Click OK
9. Restart the computer

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will usually write what kind of fatal exception that caused the crash and sometimes also what driver or application that were behind it.

 

ok, I turned it off. I updated a few drivers last night and it had not shut down at all. I will let you know what the BSOD says if it restarts itself...thanks guy's

 

Ok...update.

I turned off the auto restart as told before. Now it just started doing the same thing. It will not give me th BSOD it still restarts. I have it unchecked and have restarted my pc several time in the past month. I have a question though, What should I have my virtual memory set up at? I have the paging file set at 1000 in each box. Is this correct? or should I change this. I was recomended to do this since I have 512 megs of Ram. I still don't get the BSOD even I have the box unchecked to restart. I have it set for a small memory dump. It has restarted a few times in the last week during large transfers overnight. 1-2 gigs at a time.