[Edward C.]

Ok, the other day a storm came through and i noticed my power flickered and the computer restarted. The pc restarted and once it did my hard drive failed to startup. Formatting it fixed it but all was lost of course. Then now my pc will be running fine, and i do have all the updated sound drivers and fixes and whatever but say i'll be playing windows media player and it'll just lock up and restart. I have a screenshot of my error and here is the actually error...

I have ran dxdiag, memtest, and also already bought a new and better power supply and i've got passes on all of these, no failures....so i know it's not one of those.

TRAP_CAUSE_UNKNOWN

STOP : 0x00000012 (0x00000002, 0x8001003b, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)







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Ok, the other day a storm came through and i noticed my power flickered and the computer restarted. The pc restarted and once it did my hard drive failed to startup. Formatting it fixed it but all was lost of course. Then now my pc will be running fine, and i do have all the updated sound drivers and fixes and whatever but say i'll be playing windows media player and it'll just lock up and restart. I have a screenshot of my error and here is the actually error...



OUCH!!!!!!!!!

Storms can be incredibly damaging, I see routers go bad more than anything due to a simple lightning strike...

I honestly cant tell you what the problem is, simply because its one in a million of symptoms. But I will give you my best guess.

My best guess is that, the storm when it knocked out your pc, it ruined either your memory, or motherboard... Since you have ran a memtest, that probably rules out the memory, especially since you can run windows at all.

I would do a hard drive scan, and possibly check into pricing a new motherboard.

When power goes out and pc is on, usually the HD is the thing that gets messed up, because it was currently reading when the power went out.
If the power went out with a surge or rather bang, then it is possible part of your motherboard is fried...

[AitrusSkyy]

Ok, the other day a storm came through and i noticed my power flickered and the computer restarted. The pc restarted and once it did my hard drive failed to startup. Formatting it fixed it but all was lost of course. Then now my pc will be running fine, and i do have all the updated sound drivers and fixes and whatever but say i'll be playing windows media player and it'll just lock up and restart. I have a screenshot of my error and here is the actually error...



OUCH!!!!!!!!!

Storms can be incredibly damaging, I see routers go bad more than anything due to a simple lightning strike...

I honestly cant tell you what the problem is, simply because its one in a million of symptoms. But I will give you my best guess.

My best guess is that, the storm when it knocked out your pc, it ruined either your memory, or motherboard... Since you have ran a memtest, that probably rules out the memory, especially since you can run windows at all.

I would do a hard drive scan, and possibly check into pricing a new motherboard.

When power goes out and pc is on, usually the HD is the thing that gets messed up, because it was currently reading when the power went out.
If the power went out with a surge or rather bang, then it is possible part of your motherboard is fried...

[Edward C.]

As a matter of fact, i ran a memtest the other day not memtest86, it was like one of the most popular though on downloads.com and it gave me 0 test results. But check this man, i ran memtest86 last nite and awoke to 576 errors. MEMORY DIED!!! I e-mailed corsair and hopefully i'll send my dead ones in and get new ones.

[AitrusSkyy]

Awesome, if its just a mem error you are lucky... butch watch for other stuff... I have had many motherboards get struck even through a surge protector. In most cases I get this weird thing where the ethernet adaper is installed, and the computer says its working fine, but it wont ever detect a cable plugged in... thats the most typical damage I see in these cases.

Ram usually has a 1 year or lifetime warranty on it, so good luck .

[Edward C.]

I tried that and still nothing. I believe it's my motherboard now in retrospect. Im going to my local shop and see if there is any there he can use and test with my setup and confirm. I don't know what to say...

[Edward C.]

I believe it's got to be my motherboard now...only other possibly idea i have. I believe a voltage regulator might have screwed up or something.

[Edward C.]

Im diong it all myself of course. So far, i've replaced the Power Supply. Took ram to a working computer and it passed memtest86 fine. My video card worked fine in another pc and normal as in mine also. I am 99% sure it's my motehrboard. I also put more thermal compound on the processor