Help: Computer rebooting on it's own.

[SuperSlug]

Whenever I have been doing normal activities, my computer has been rebooting. What are possible causes of this? The last time this happened I had a bad stick of ram, but I'm pretty sure my ram is okay at the moment.

 

[Amun]

Cooling problems.

 

[MasterD86]

i had that happen to me before ... you have XP?

 

[T-Funk]

stop sticking penith in floppy drive

 

[Hit]

trojan

 

[chrisryn64]

duh, M$ suxors

 

[Rabid Poop]

trojan

 

[[meph]DooM!]

My power supply was doing that to me. I got a new (non shitty) one and it doesn't randomly reboot anymore

 

[stone]

have you tried rebooting?

 

[SuperSlug]

It could be my PSU I suppose. I have no trojans, that I found. :/ Running 2kpro.

 

[Holden C]

Random rebootings are a feature of all Microsoft products.

This prevents the chance that your PC will stay on indefinately, harming the environment.

Any attempt to disable this standard feature will result in an animated GIF of Bill Gates' head with devil horns laughing at you.

 

[MasterD86]

After i updated my BIOS it hasnt happened to me yet... it may have been my stupid SOYO mobo

 

[Neutrino]

Last time that happened to me my motherboard was shorting on the case. Could also likely be the power supply.

 

[cancer]

i had this problem

my video card turned out to be fried

it could be p/s, trojan, mobo, or hd...maybe format + reinstalling the os would work

 

[iNVAR]

first, goto control panel->system->advanced->start up and recovery settings->UNCHECK automatic restart.

run your system and see if it still does the rebooting thing.

 

[wetwilly]

mine does the same thing on 2k pro... only happens when i CLOSE a file or a program tho.

 

[SuperSlug]

I'm giving up for the night. I'm running scandisk and diskffragmenter on it to see if that might help at all. The last thing I want to do is format, but I might end up having to do that.

 

[iNVAR]

first, goto control panel->system->advanced->start up and recovery settings->UNCHECK automatic restart.

run your system and see if it still does the rebooting thing.

DO THIS

 

[SuperSlug]

Cannot at the moment, at my parents house where a computer works. Doing that will just not make my computer automatically reboot, correct?

 

[iNVAR]

well, if it's windows rebooting your system, at least you'll see an error message and we can start troubleshooting.

this'll tell you whether or not it's your hardware causing a spontaneous reboot or if it's software crapping out.