My RA304 keeps Crashing!!!!!!!!!!!

[ZakG]

Ok, before i contact vaio-link because i have heard they are extremely poor at customer support i thought i would try this forum as you guys seem to know what you are talking about.

Ok, so i have just bought a new Sony RA304, i love it , i only have sony desktops and laptops, they are all connected using vaio media, love that program and ive got the network media reciever working after some time (norton antivirus was blocking a connection). However i have just loaded FIFA 2005 and my logitech rumblepad 2 controller.

A fair number of times my RA304 just keeps cutting out and restarting, the program does not even freeze. This is either when starting the game or exiting the game. Sometimes when loading a new match. However, this has also happened midway through a recording using vaio media once.

The specs are very good as i think you know, 3.6 ghz, 1gb ram 500gb hard drive, and also an nVidia Geforce 6600 with 256 mb ddr sdram.
When the computer restarts it gives me the error reporting stuff from microsoft and has created a minidump.

I have read up that this could be something to do with the graphics card or something being too new or powerful for the game or something like that. There being an error or something.

I have also heard that it could be due to overheating but i do not believe this to be the case as it has this supposed 'liquid cooling system' which is supposed to keep it cool and to be honest it does not feel overheated or anything.

Can anyone suggest why my system keeps crashing/cutting out like this?

Could it be to do with the hyper threading, or the RAID configuration or i think it has PCI-express or something? i am new to this technology.

One last point, anyone with this pc or this new technology (RAID, PCI-EXPRESS,HT) , is it normal for there to be a cruch sort of noise when the pc boots or shuts down? For example when you can hear a new hard drive making a normal ticking over noise this is sort of a short sudden crunch noise.

If anyone has information on how to stop this crashing, i would be most grateful. Is this crunching noise i am experiencing normal?

thanks

[seb21__]

I'm not really tech in this, but I'm realistic. Like the name said. The AGP Port is a "accelerate graphics port". That is totally different to the PCIExpress Port. And there lie the problems. PCIExpress is relative new and the most potencial are unused from the current graphics cards. I think that AGP has reached his limit, but it's more stable because it's higher developed.
If you compare PCIExpress with AGP, then you would compare a 8year old child with a 30 years old man.

[ZakG]

yeh seb21

it has done it again

system error

category (102)

event 1003

this is the info from the last crash
does it mean anything?

[seb21__]

I have checked the Microsoft site. But I haven't found a real answer. So, I have wrote a new treadh in the microsoft Newsgroups. Maybe these guys have a idea. I will tell you, if I know more.

[seb21__]

I need reason of the reboot. You can find the reason in the protocoll.

[kee-lo_]

Hi Zak,

Yeah as Seb said XP Pro isn't that mcuh different.

As for the sound issue, I agree, it's not 100% quiet in my opinion, but thats probably because it's been here a long time and I have got used to the sound of the humming - sounds like my water lamp downstairs.

Yes I am frustrated about the RA series - but I'm not bitter.

As for the tempreture thing Seb, RA uses SATA not IDE.
You should try Motherboard Monitor.

[ZakG]

How do i find the reason of reboot/protocoll?

[seb21__]

Windows has wrote a protocoll after the reboot (I mean event, 1003 category 102)

[ZakG]

have you got what you need then, i gave you event number, etc

[seb21__]

At the moment I can only say that some games and other programs(Photoshop too) have sometimes problems with the PCIExpress graphicscards. Because there is any problem with the driver.

It's a little bit stupid because your VAIO is new, but have you checked VAIO-Link for driver updates?

A other point. You say you can't use MobileMeter.

Try "Speedfan" maybe it works on your system. You can find it on this Link.
http://www.almico.com/

[ZakG]

downloaded the latest nVidia drivers and no change.

i will try those programs, thanks for the recommendations

i know it is a new vaio and it should bloddy work with everything, specially because of the pricetag it carries