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Originally posted by Link:
This is not normal anymore (well, to be honest, it has never BEEN normal).. My computer has the most annoying glitch/bug/whatever which causes it to restart spontaneously at any given moment. When I'm watching a movie on my computer. When I'm playing a game. When I've played a game, and going back to Windows. Heck, even when I'm just typing this, I'm not quite sure how long it will last until it goes wacko again.
Problem is though, that I haven't got the faintest clue what is going on. I have addressed this problem before on IW, but then the drivers were mentioned as the probable source of the problem, but as my computer restarts in any given program (be it Word, BGII, Warcraft 3, doesn't matter) I don't think that's it. Overheating could be it, but my computer now reaches a maximum of 60 degrees Celcius, and I personally don't think that's very high.
I have Windows XP installed so maybe that's the problem, but I really don't know anymore, and I'm out of ideas of what to do. In desperate need of help, I ask you guys, who probably know a lot more of computers than I do, to give me a hand (or more perhaps). Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Link
P.S. Further info on my comp: it's a AMD Athlon 1500+, 256 MB Ram internal memory, 80 Gig Hard drive, Geforce 2 MX video card. That's about it, I guess.
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First thing you need to do is disable the auto restart feature of Windows XP. Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > Start up and Recovery Settings and uncheck the box "Automatically Restart"
At least now, you'll be able to see exactly what error is occuring if it's a software related problem, ie. drivers. Next time it happens, instead of rebooting, you'll get a blue screeen with a stop error. Write down any information related to the error. It should be a fairly long number with lots of zero's. Once your back up and running, head of to the MS knowledge base and fire the stop error in the search engine and you should receive some information as to exactly the cause of the problem.
If it just restarts, the same as before, then:
1. You didn't turn off auto restart
2. There's an auto restart feature in the BIOS for hardware failure.
I'm not sure if you're running a VIA chipset with your Athlon, but nine times out of ten, problems like this are due to bad 4 in 1 drivers for the mobo.
Oh, and by the way 60 degrees Celsuis is way to hot for Athlon XP.