What to do for a rare random reboot with no bsod or errors in log

Was doing next to nothing (playing an mp3 file as usual and browsing) which is a 10% cpu load and the Win 7 x64 box just reboots.
I know this has been reported widely on many diff motherboards and isn't just a Win 7 issue, but I have no idea how I'd debug something that happens once in many weeks and for no apparent reason. I've stressed the system many times and it's rock solid.
Could Win 7 have some bug in the kernel that just crashes when certain things come together? No way to debug this.
i'm going to look at the cpu pins just to be sure nothing i awry. I am not overclocking at all.
Win 7 X64
p55-cd53
4 gig ram 1600 mhz
Ndivia 250 GPU
600w ps

Turn off "Automatic reboot on system failure", and check BSOD code if it comes.
Do stability testing with >>Memtest86<< & Orthos
Details: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=103598.msg760534#msg760534

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TS3274 My iPad mini retina is still having random reboots with blue screen after updating to iOS 8.0.2.i also did reset my iPad.But the problem still persis

My iPad mini retina is still having random reboots with blue screen after updating to iOS 8.0.2.i also did reset my iPad.But the problem still persists

Could you add your problem here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6569052? This makes sure the discussion and in one place and we can attract more attention from Apple.

Help for N900 that randomly reboot and that have s...

DISCLAIMER
A moderator deleted an entire thread with details that have helped many many users with N900 phones that are rebooting because they believed we were discussing debranding N900s..
Firstly, the N900 is not branded..
Secondly, we were discussing changing settings on the device to stop the devices from randomly rebooting.. Something SUGGESTED BY NOKIA on the bugs.maemo.org bug tracker website.
Nothing in this thread will invalidate your warranty and all information is condensed from official Maemo websites.
If your device is randomly rebooting:
RESTART YOUR DEVICE AFTER A RANDOM REBOOT
There is a counter inside your phone that increases by 3 every time it randomly reboots. If this counter reaches 50 (after 17 random reboots in a row) your device will probably stop booting ALL TOGETHER!
To stop your device from completely locking, you must power off your device normally. Use the power button then select "switch off". When you power your device back on, the counter is reset. Remember, if you don't reset your device, it will stop booting.
REPAIRING A DEVICE THAT NO LONGER BOOTS
If your device was randomly rebooting but now fails to boot it may have reached its count limit. When you turn on your device it may stop at the 5 dots loading screen and freeze.
Here's a method for getting your device working again.
Download flasher-3.5:
For Nokia forums staff this is an OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOKIA TOOL. USING THIS TOOL DOES NOT AFFECT THE DEVICE WARRANTY. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS POST AGAIN.
Flasher can be obtained from the Nokia website:
http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php
Download and install flasher onto your computer. For more information on using flasher, you can see the maemo page here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Flasher
Turn off your N900
Remove the battery
Insert the battery.. but leave it off
Plug the USB cable into your computer.. This may not work in ALL ports on your computer. Sometimes ports at the back of the computer work better than those at the front.
Open the keyboard on your N900, press and hold the 'u' button and plug the USB cable into the N900.. keep the u button pressed.
The Nokia logo should appear on your device, a small USB icon should appear in the top right of the N900 screen. The backlight may not light up leaving the screen dark. You can release the u button now
NOW ENABLE R&D MODE TO START THE DEVICE
Use flasher application. On windows 7 this may mean running in windows xp mode
Open a cmd window (start run cmd) then enter these commands:
cd "\program files\maemo\flasher-3.5"
flasher-3.5.exe --enable-rd-mode
Flasher should run for a few seconds then exit.. If it hangs "waiting for suitable device" Try another port on your computer. Try a different computer. Ask questions here. Flasher doesn't always work on all machines
Remove the USB cable from your N900 and turn it on. It should boot up. Note that there is a small spanner icon under the Nokia logo
If your device still does not boot:
Check that the spanner icon is present when you turn the device on. If it is not, the device is not in R&D mode.. Start going through these instructions again
If the spanner logo is present and the device still does not boot, stop.. this process may not help you
Turn the N900 back off
Press and hold the u button on the keyboard and plug the USB cable in. Keep the u button pressed
The Nokia logo should appear on your device, a small USB icon should appear in the top right of the N900 screen. The backlight may not light up leaving the screen dark. You can release the u button now
NOW DISABLE R&D MODE TO START THE DEVICE
In the cmd window on your pc, re-run the flasher command with a different option:
flasher-3.5 --disable-rd-mode
Remove the USB cable and turn the phone back on
CHANGE ENABLE_OFF_MODE TO STOP RANDOM REBOOTS
I have written a tool to help stop the random reboots on N900 devices. This tool issues the following command
echo 0 > /sys/power/enable_off_mode
and updates the /etc/pmconfig file to make the change permanent
To use the tool you will need to install the rootsh package:
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/Maemo5/rootsh/?get_installfile
Now download the fixpm.sh file:
http://chris.intrepid.cx/N900/fixpm.sh
Open an x terminal and type the following command
sudo gainroot
sh MyDocs/.documents/fixpm.sh enable
If you would like to disable the update, you can use the following commands:
sudo gainroot
sh MyDocs/.documents/fixpm.sh disable
Please click the kudos button if you found this helpful and please let me know if you have problems with the instructions, need help with them or if they didn't work
Message Edited by cpitchford on 28-Dec-2009 07:12 PM

Congrats!!
There are some steps you can follow to help stop your phone from rebooting...
Follow the steps in the first post under the section:
CHANGE ENABLE_OFF_MODE TO STOP RANDOM REBOOTS
Open these links on your N900:
Download and install the rootsh package:
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/Maemo5/rootsh/?get_installfile
Download the fix script:
http://chris.intrepid.cx/N900/fixpm.sh
Save it in the Documents folder
Open an X terminal and run these two commands
sudo gainroot
sh MyDocs/.documents/fixpm.sh enable
Message Edited by cpitchford on 30-Dec-2009 11:57 AM

Random reboots with 975x Platinum v2.1?

As the title says, I have the MSI 975x Platinum v2.1. The system randomly reboots fairly, often, and I'm not sure what could be causing it.
I had this setup for a few weeks, before it locked up overnight and destroyed my memory. Board would halt on the memory initialization during POST, so I sent it back for RMA and now have the replacement. While waiting for the RMA, I bought some memory from a local retailer so I would have something to use. The system would randomly reboot, sometimes in Windows, sometimes while browsing the BIOS menus. I figured the motherboard was damaged too and I sent it back to the retailer for a RMA replacement. I now have the LE version of the board. I also bought a new power supply because I now thought it fried my stuff. Everything put back together, I'm still having random reboots. Here's the system specs:
# Intel Core 2 EE x6800
# MSI 975x Platinum v2.1 LE (BIOS 7.4 official)
# mushkin REDLINE 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000
# BFG Tech BFGR79256GTOCE GeForce 7900GT 256MB GDDR3
# 1x NEC IDE DVDR, 1x Seagate 200GiB IDE, 1x Seagate 80GiB SATA2, 1x Seagate 400GiB SATA1, 1x Seagate 500GiB SATA2
# Windows XP Pro SP2
# Tagan TG-480-U22 ATX 480W, then mushkin HP-580AP ATX12V / EPS12V 580W
Currently, the system can play games for a couple hours with dnetc running in the background. Yet when I leave it running a torrent (or whatever) overnight, I'll wake up and find it rebooted (after like 6 hours of uptime). I've also gotten it to reboot while just browsing web pages for a few minutes. The northbridge heatsink/heatpipe does get pretty hot, and my room does get warm, so I'll try adding a spare fan tonight. Though, I find this unlikely as the system should be working fine at stock speeds/voltages. Other than that, anyone have any suggestions?

I was actually using the Tagan in combined mode until I started having problems (ie, when the RAM died). By then, neither combined nor split appeared to have any helpful effect. I do not know if the Tagan was the cause of my problems, or if this is all something (???) else. I suppose I could try it again, but I'd rather not break my newly RMA'ed stuff. The mushkin power supply has 4x 20a 12v rails, but it appears to automatically determine whether they should be combined or split.
Speaking of the 12v rails. I noticed that the BIOS reports varying values for the 12v. I've seen it at 12.3v, 13.0v, 13.7v, and 14.0v. However, the dualcorecenter software in Windows always reports 12.2v - 12.3v. I have no idea which is accurate.

Random Reboots with dual channel

Hi,
I just bought yesterday the following system.
Intel P4 2.8 Northwood HP enabled
MSI 865PE/Neo 2 Platinum Edition
Maxtor Diamond Star 9 200 GB 8MB Cache 7200rpm
Elixir 2x512MB DDR 400 CL3
Toshiba DVD 16x
Creative Geforce 4 Ti 4400 128MB
Logitech Cordless Keyboard connected and a logitech cordless optical mouse
19 inch belinea monitor.
The power supply is a no name product LPK2-30 with the following specs.
420W
3.3V 28A
+5V 36A
-5V 0.5A
+12V 17A
-12V -0.8A
It says that is P4 ready, i know which does mean nothing
Operating System:
Windows XP Professional SP1
All Hotfixes and Updates applied
Newest drivers for all the system parts
The errors during the windows crashes are irq not less or equal or page fault, which looks for me pretty much like a problem with the memory.
Ok what i tried so far.
Single channel with 512MB works fine.
Single channel with 1GB works fine except one strange thing restarting the machine and it got stuck during the bios loading worked fine after i pressed reset.
Dual channel 1/3 1 GB get random reboots.
Dual channel 2/4 1 GB even worse but i think at this point my newly installed died.
I tried to set memory voltage from 2.65 up to 2.8 but did not change the behaviour.
memtest with one modules in slot 1 no errors
memtest with dual channel 1/3 1 gb no errors running 30 minutes
i will try now a memtest with the second single module in memslot 3.
No MAT or dot ram settings are 3,3,3.
I am bit running out of ideasö
before i forget i updated the bios from 3.3 to 3.5 but did not change the problems.
Maybe you guys have some ideas what else can i try.
thx a lot in advance. i hope i provided all informations which are necessary.
greetings faxe

Hi,
i tried a few more things which make confident that i have the problem narrowed down to the memory.
i tried to install windows again with only using the third memory slot single channel and it worked fine.
now i tried to go down with the memory speed to ddr333 and using dual channel and so far that seems to work too.
so i think i will go for other memory.
if you think i am wrong please correct me
greetings markus

Mysterious random reboot with iPod Touch 3G running 3.1 firmware

Hi everybody,
I ordered an iPod Touch which arrived last week, thinking that it would be the third best thing ever happened to my life (besides my girlfriend and my mac book pro). However it has been a big disappointment for me since the first day I used it.
I have been using the iPod for about a week now, and it randomly crashes and automatically reboots 5 or 6 times a day. I tried restoring it several times but to no avail. I also closely followed this post about random crashes with iPhone running 3.1 firmware (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2152619&start=0&tstart=0).
At first I thought this annoying bug is common for both iPhone and iPod touch user running 3.1. But it's weird that no other user using iPod touch is complaining about the problem. So I'm thinking this might be a hardware problem.
If you guys have any possible solution, or if you are using iPod Touch and have the same problem, please reply. I want to make sure before contacting Apple and exchange for a new one. By the way, it's totally unacceptable that:
1. Apple didn't announce the problem and apologize to the users who are suffering and literally losing money everyday due to this bug
2. Apple blocked the online support feature, I'm gonna have to arrange an appointment with them via phone, but the nearest apple support center is 2 hours away by car.
Thanks for reading and I hope there's a way to address this problem soon.
Message was edited by: Gary Cao

apparently... no.. it still occurs in the 3.1.2
i believe it has something to do with memory and the touch scroll. graphic? defect on the touch tech in the 3g? or am i just unlucky to pick that one?
... im gonna exchange or probably get my 280 bucks back from costco.
y the memory and touch scroll? memory failure most of the time result in sudden reboot to computer. (IPOD TOUCH AND IPHONES R MINI MINI COMP SO JUST GET U IF U WANT TO ARGUE ABOUT THIS) Touch screen really just... start the reboot... on my home page. scrolling back and forth and suddenly... scratchy statically-like screen and fades in dark and then silver apple pops up. same result on scrolling on youtube, safari, and other apps that requires u to scroll. ... im just hoping that i get the ipod touch 3g again and obtain a totally not defective one

Iphone6 ,ios 8.2,8.3 randomly reboot with blue screen

i have an 64G iphone 6 with ios8.3 .my problem is blue screen!I had it before this update too but now is intorable! sometime my wifi drop and it randomly reboot And sometimes it shows blue screen and randomly reboot ;i think it is beacuse a software bug.
It happen 4 or 5 times a day! I think im not alone ,also my friend have this problem on iPad Air2.

Exactly the same issue with iphone 5s 64G. It started with iOS 8.2 and then 8.3.

IPad ios8 random reboot with blue screen

Hi everyone,
I Know this question has been posted already but I'm so frustrated.
after upgrading to iOS 8 my iPad air started to reboot randomly with blue screen at least 5 to 6 times a day.
when will apple provide an update fixing this issue? Since it seems more common.
model: iPad air wifi only
ios: 8.0.2
i have tried turning off iCloud sync as many suggested but it didn't help.
reboots are frequent when I'm using safari.
most of the time the diagnostic log shows WDT timeout
{"bug_type":"110","os_version":"iOS 8.0.2 (12A405)"}
Incident Identifier: 524C9CFE-E20D-4D2F-B661-9CFD8A0CB89E
CrashReporter Key:   1db2e77104549f32cb56eb1d2daee436b4bdd220
Hardware Model:      iPad4,1
Date/Time:           2014-10-12 16:24:31.232 +0530
OS Version:          iOS 8.0.2 (12A405)
Debugger message: WDT timeout
6s ago: 0b50 0f9fd0ce63 0r1e88000 0m0/1
OS version: 12A405
Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Thu Sep 18 21:51:01 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2783.1.72~23/RELEASE_ARM64_S5L8960X
iBoot version: iBoot-2261.1.68
secure boot?: YES
Paniclog version: 3

Try Barry's suggestion first.
If the Reset doesn't work, try a Restore. Note that it's nowhere near as quick as a Reset. It could take well over an hour! Connect via cable to the computer that you use for sync. From iTunes, select the iPad/iPod and then select the Summary tab. Follow the on-screen directions for Restore and be sure to say "yes" to the backup. You will be warned that all data (apps, music, movies, etc.) will be erased but, as the Restore finishes, you will be asked if you wish the contents of the backup to be copied to the iPad/iPod. Again, say "yes."
At the end of the basic Restore, you will be asked if you wish to sync the iPad/iPod. As before, say "yes." Note that that sync selection will disappear and the Restore will end if you do not respond within a reasonable time. If that happens, only the apps that are part of the IOS will appear on your device. Corrective action is simple - choose manual "Sync" from the bottom right of iTunes.
If you're unable to do the Restore (or it doesn't help), go into Recovery Mode per the instructions here. You WILL lose all of your data (game scores, etc,) but, for the most part, you can redownload apps and music without being charged again. Also, read this.

Random Rebooting with TI4400

Ok, ive been tooking around here for a bit. There are a few threads in the old forums, but none in the new forums.
I am getting a load of trouble with my card. It freezes my system, it reboots it, bloody hell, im currently having to reinstall Win2k
What is the problem? is the card just shite, as i bought it thinking that MSI were the best out there
Spec:
Abit kr7a-raid
300w PSU
1ghz AMD Athlon
512ddr

FYI
180w combined is bare minimum to run an AMD XP CPU, when you combine it with a GF4 the min. is increased to at least 200w to run with some stability.
Some power supply's can do that continuously but not all of them.
My Enermax is 200 combined(I think, never had to check) and so far it has taken everything I have thrown at it, up to a Ti4600, without any problems.
There are PSU's out there that claim to be 350w or even 400w but in actuality the combined power for some of them are only 180w or so.
It shouldn't be this complicated but unfortunately this has become a very common dilemma.
BTW, We are not MSI and MSI never see's this. It is a user to user forum only, Mods are not employees of MSI, we are, or were, users just like you.
The frustration would be more appropriately aimed at the Power Supply Maunufacturers and the industry as a whole.

MOVED: MSI P67A-GD55 (B3) uncommon / random reboots with OC Genie

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Undervolting & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=154614.0

Quote from: HU16E on 02-December-11, 17:09:17
If you have or can borrow a digital multimeter, please check the DRAM V. at the V-Checkpoint. It may need to be set higher. For DDR3, 1.575v's is the upper end of the 1.50v. standard. 1.65v's is considered the maximum.
I'm taking a guess that OC Genie set my DRAM V. a bit too high:
http://i.imgur.com/rpeVp.jpg
When I went to change Intel SVID to APS, I noticed that the feature was set completely to disabled. Is it safe to change to APS from Disabled?

Random freezes with INSERT-HANG-DETECTED in system log

Hi,
Since a few months I am experiencing random freezes on my early 2011 MacBook Pro 15". Sometimes they occur every few minutes and sometimes they can be away for hours. During the freeze the system is not responding and often a spinning beachball is shown. After the freeze the system resumes to work as normal.
In the system log (/var/log/system.log) I noticed the following messages which seem to have a timestamp corresponding to the freeze:
WebProcess[151]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:28.505937, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 4875, Did shrink: NO
Does anyone know what these messages mean?
It doesn't seem to be related to the application that is in use during the freeze. Most of the time I only use Mail, Safari, Calendar, Terminal and Preview. My system (10.6.8) is fully up-to-date. The Activity Monitor does not show exceptional CPU or Memory usage.
What could also be relevant is that the freezes started to appear a week after I replaced a defective Hitachi HDD with a Crucial M4 SDD.
Does anyone have had the same issues with this SSD?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Maarten

This is an update to the question above.
I put in the original HDD and had the same issues. At one time it didn't even boot anymore. Then I sent in my MBP for repair. They first replaced the HDD with no success. Then they replaced the logic board and all issues dissapeared.
Maarten

Bold 9650 with OS 6 and Random Reboots

Hi, all,
I upgraded like many of you to the latest official OS for the 9650, version 6.0.0.431. I have been experiencing random reboots, at least 4 or 5 per day. I was wondering if any of you are experiencing the same thing? Usually, random reboots are caused by some 3rd party application, but I am having a hard time figuring out which one it can be. I think it might be either Facebook or Weatherbug causing the reboot. Not sure, but wanted to get your input. If you are experiencing random reboots with this OS, let me know.
Doc

MotleyLou wrote:
OK...Upgrade complete. No reboot's yet. But what I did notice...some of my preloaded app/icons got doubled? Any tips how to delete either one or all so they don't come back again? I had a Curve last, and everytime I "removed" something, after an update or over time, the Icon would come back. This is my third day with my new Bold
Hey,
Probably what happened on the "pushed" icons for apps is that when you reloaded your OS, you probably restored the Service Book. Then, after your device was connected to the network, it got pushed a couple of those icons again, resulting in duplicate icons. In my case, it was the icon for VCast Apps. I went into Options>Device>Advanced System Settings>Service Book and found that I did have the VCast Apps listed twice. I deleted one of those entries and one of the duplicate icons disappeared. Now, you could delete all of those pushed icons in the Service Books, but they will reappear after a few hours. The Service Book is continually updated during the day. It connects with the network, looking for updates and it will put those pushed apps back. The only solution is to hide those apps. I just made a folder called pushed apps and moved all of thosed pushed apps into that folder. I hope this helps.
By the way, no reboots since reloading my OS yesterday afternoon. That is good. I will load Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 and let it run for 24 hours and see if I get reboots.
Doc

Cisco 7206vxr randomly rebooting

I have a cisco 7206vxr router that has been randomly rebooting.
This is the error I am getting.
System was restarted by bus error at PC 0x623F6FD0, address 0xB0D0B0D at 10:48:15 CST Fri Dec 17 2010
Reading through some stuff on the cisco site I see that the address shown is not a vaild memory location. Do any of you guys have any ideas?

CVFTC_7206#sh ver
Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200-IS-M), Version 12.4(3), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 22-Jul-05 09:13 by hqluong
ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(8r)B, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-KBOOT-M), Version 12.2(15)B, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
CVFTC_7206 uptime is 2 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes
System returned to ROM by bus error at PC 0x623F6FD0, address 0xB0D0B0D at 16:28:24 CST Fri Dec 17 2010
System restarted at 16:31:04 CST Fri Dec 17 2010
System image file is "disk2:c7200-is-mz.124-3.bin"
Cisco 7206VXR (NPE-G1) processor (revision A) with 491520K/32768K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 20402731
SB-1 CPU at 700MHz, Implementation 1025, Rev 0.2, 512KB L2 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0
Last reset from power-on
PCI bus mb1 (Slots 1, 3 and 5) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
Current configuration on bus mb1 has a total of 0 bandwidth points.
This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.
PCI bus mb2 (Slots 2, 4 and 6) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
Current configuration on bus mb2 has a total of 0 bandwidth points.
This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.
Please refer to the following document "Cisco 7200 Series Port
Adaptor Hardware Configuration Guidelines" on CCO ,
for c7200 bandwidth points oversubscription/usage guidelines.
3 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
509K bytes of NVRAM.
62720K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 2 (Sector size 512 bytes).
16384K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
Configuration register is 0x2102

BSOD Assistance - (Computer rebooting with BugcheckCode 26) Minidump uploaded

Hello!
Would anybody be able to assist me with a BSOD / Automatic Reboot issue?
We have a computer running Windows 7 32-bit pro OEM that is randomly rebooting with a BugcheckCode 26. I have uploaded a .RAR file containing the error messages and minidump here: https://www.yousendit.com/download/UlRSSlJ6RndYSHh1a3NUQw . I
am unable to determine what is causing the issue.
Thank you so much!
Jeremy

Hi Jeremy,
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (1a)
This indicates that a severe memory management error occurred.
BugCheck 1A, {41790, c0802066, ffff, 0}
- The 1st parameter of the bug check is 41790 which indicates a page table page has been corrupted.
We're unfortunately not going to have any luck dumping the data structure.
0: kd> dt nt!_MMPFN c0802066
+0x000 u1 : <unnamed-tag>
+0x004 u2 : <unnamed-tag>
+0x008 PteAddress : (null)
+0x008 VolatilePteAddress : (null)
+0x008 Lock : 0n0
+0x008 PteLong : 0
+0x00c u3 : <unnamed-tag>
+0x010 OriginalPte : _MMPTE
+0x010 AweReferenceCount : 0n0
+0x018 u4 : <unnamed-tag>
0: kd> k
ChildEBP RetAddr
b8551c84 82cc1fbc nt!MiDeleteVirtualAddresses+0x41a // Deleting virtual addresses.
b8551d1c 82c458e6 nt!NtFreeVirtualMemory+0x60b // Freeing virtual memory.
b8551d1c 775670f4 nt!KiSystemServicePostCall
WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.
0055e970 00000000 0x775670f4
Looks like bad RAM to me. Run Memtest for no less than 8 passes:
Memtest86+:
Download Memtest86+ here:
http://www.memtest.org/
Which should I download?
You can either download the pre-compiled .ISO that you would burn to a CD and then boot from the CD, or you can download the auto-installer for the USB key. What this will do is format your USB drive, make it a bootable device, and then install the necessary
files. Both do the same job, it's just up to you which you choose, or which you have available (whether it's CD or USB).
Do note that some older generation motherboards do not support USB-based booting, therefore your only option is CD (or Floppy if you really wanted to).
How Memtest works (you don't need to read, it's only for those interested in the specifics):
Memtest uses algorithms (specifically two), namely moving inversion & what is deemed Modulo-X. Essentially, the first algorithm fills the memory with a pattern. Starting at the low address, it checks to see if the pattern was changed (it should not have
been), writes the patterns complement, increments the address, and repeats. Starting at the highest address (as opposed to the lowest), it follows the same checklist.
The reason for the second algorithm is due to a few limitations, with the first being that not all adjacent cells are being tested for interaction due to modern chips being 4 to 16 bits wide regarding data storage. With that said, patterns are used to go ahead
and ensure that all adjacent cells have at least been written with all possible one and zero combinations.
The second is that caching, buffering and out of order execution will interfere with the moving inversions algorithm. However, the second algorithm used is not affected by this. For starting offsets of 0-20, the algorithm will write every 20th location with
a pattern, write all other locations with the patterns complement, repeat the previous one (or more) times, and then check every 20th location for the previously mentioned pattern.
Now that you know how Memtest actually works, it's important to know that the tests it goes through all mean something different. It goes from Test 0 through Test 12, many of which use either one or the other algorithm discussed above, among many other things.
Any other questions, they can most likely be answered by reading this great guide here:
http://forum.canardpc.com/threads/28864-FAQ-please-read-before-posting
Regards,
Patrick
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” - Dalai Lama

Phone randomly rebooting for no apparent reason

Yesterday my phone started randomly rebooting. No apparent reason. No physical damage. No recent software changes that I am aware of. I have auto-update of apps turned off. Verizon store could not explain it. Forced soft reset did not fix the problem. It happens continually with a reboot, operates for a bit, then instantly shuts off and begins rebooting again until the battery is completely drained away. On the Droid Razr Maxx there is no way to remove the integrated battery so this means it goes until the phone is dead. Seriously overheating it in the process. What do I do?

The power cycle is what I referred to as a forced soft reset. Does not fix.
I tried the flush of the system cache. Does not fix it.
It took some time to be able to copy off the phone data in the 8GB of internal memory during the brief time the phone is available prior to the next reboot cycle. Afterwards I did a complete factory reset. Does not fix it.
After the factory reset it takes the phone a few minutes to initialize itself. But the phone reboots itself before this phase can complete. I have tried at least 20 times to see if I can get lucky and have it finish before the next random reboot cycle. No success. So now I have a completely wiped phone that can not even get to the home screen.
I have taken excellent care of my phone. Doesn't get dropped. Spent most of its life in my pocket. No misuse of any kind. It does not seem right for it to just stop working for no reason like this. Is there a way to get Verizon/Motorola to refurbish or replace it?

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