computer reboots every time I try to change the size of the pagefile

[SantiClaws]

Weird problem, I've never heard of such a thing. I wanted to change the pagefile to a constant size, not a range (currently 384-768), and when I try to do it in advanced options, as soon as I click "OK", a reboot happens. When I check, the pagefile has remained the same size. Machine also reboots occasionally for no apparent reason--sometimes it is under heavy loads, sometimes not.

My temperatures are all within normal ranges, nothing is overclocked, I have 512MB of good quailty PC2700 RAM, and a good PSU. So, what could be happening?

System:

Athlon XP 1900
Win2k

[zypha]

That happened to me but in other area's of windows. Sometime windows just rebooted itself. I had a 2000+ XP , I turned my computer off one day, ,to dust inside, turned it back on, the smell of cooking chips. Needles to say my heart sank and I pulled the chip out sure enough is was black on the underside. I did get a replacement for it. It was a bad chip. How knows, hey that brings me back to a post some one wrote a while back asking what the + stands for on a AMD XP chip, and I Think bipolar bill said" It was a cross so you could pray that your chip doesn't burn up" hehehe

[BipolarBill]

Control Panel > System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery.

Untick "Automatically restart" and set memory dump to None.

Hopefully, you'll get a blue-screen error with a message next time.

[SantiClaws]

The only messages that are other than alphabet soup on the BSOD:

NTFS FILE SYSTEM
ADDRESS: ...CLASSPNP.SYS

[BipolarBill]

Boot the PC from the XP CD. Choose the Recovery Console. Choose number 1. When prompted for a password, press Enter (no password) unless you're sure of yours. Type CHKDSK C: /P /R. Now boot to Safe Mode (F8) and change the pagefile.

[dave-harper]

um - is it worth the hassle to change it ???

admitally it shouldn't crash and it would be nice to know why

but if you just left it a the default ???