My computer is shutting down?????

Ever since I've been downloading torrents now and then (like 4 times a day) my computer just shuts down. I don't even have to be using it at the time...I'll just be sitting there and then all of a sudden it turns off and restarts. Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix it?

Also, it is taking forever (30 seconds) to open the window when I open My Computer and also when I'm selecting a drive to save to. Any ideas what's wrong here?

Thanks all, I would appreciate the help.

 

maybe your using to much of the system resources, how much ram do you have?

 

This has been happening with my old, computer all of a sudden it will just restart its self

It has 192 mb of ram/memory

 

Its windows XP home SP2. And it says in windows task manager :

Physical memory (k)

Total 196084
Available 571xx
System cache 565xx

 

your basically running on fumes -Alien13- you might consider in investing on more ram.

As soon as you use up all system resources your computer will either freeze or restart.

 

Ahh ok, thanks. Yeah i was planning on getting more ram anyways, so now i have an excuse to tell my mum to let me get it Thanks

What would you reccomend ? 128 or 512 ?

 

Yeah, im using SDRAM and 64mb was what we started off with then we put in 128mb for xp.

Also the problem has gotten worse we turn on the computer and it asks:

turn on in :

safe mode
safe mode w/ networking

last good config

start normally

and we click normally and it restarts

 

next time click on last good config, seems like you had windows crash on you or a serious error.

 

Well, i went to last good config but it just restarted

And it has 3 slots for ram. Max it can use is 1.5gb .

We are thinking of using the xp CD and repairing windows, would that work ?

 

never had to use XP cd repair but if you are still having issues then I would do it.

Im sure -ddp- would know and im sure he will be back in this thread to give more advice.

Post back and let us know if XP repair worked.

 

ahh ok Well, i do the repair now and let you know what happened

Thanks

 

Ahh ok will get the 512 one then And the restarting has been hapening for a few days, but the not being able to get into windows has only been happening since yesterday

 

may be is the cpu running hot?
I hade prblem like this, turned out one of pci is dammeged

 

Well, i can now get back into windows, but the restarting is still happening

How do i check the CPU ?

 

Ahh ok thanks


I think it has stopped doing it now, but im not sure ??