Well yeah the title says it all, my computer out of nowhere will restart itself every so often (it seems to be every 2 days im not 100% sure tho) but yh i leave it on alot because of downloads and its a bitch when i come back to it and its restarted. I have a dell 5150 with windows xp home edition SP2. any help with fixing this problem would be great. thanks
could be anything , strip it down to just harddrive , mob, psu, processor, ram bare min and see if it will run, if yes then start adding one thing at a time or per day in your case (leave it running) youll find it when a laser device (cd rom, dvd)goes strange things happen hope this helps
PS: could be two things wrong even...i got hit by lightling once...err twice but once per machine and that will take out multiple things
well it never happened before i reformatted about a month ago, so i dont think that could be the problem.
Well i only really download iso's but its possible it could be a trojan but i think i remember it restarting itself like the day i reformatted when i had downloaded nothing so there wouldnt have been any trojans then.
When I had a similar problem it was caused by a video card that was getting too hot. When it reach a critical point it would crash the computer causing it to shutoff. The video card in question didn't have a fan on it, I installed a 80mm fan pointed at the video card heatsink and that fix the problem.
put your xp disc in boot from cd press 'r' to start recovery console press 1 press enter or put in admin password type chkdsk /r at the prompt wait till it's done then try again
