My computer randomly restarts for no reason.

Well, this was happening to me a few months ago and i was so sick of it that i just formated my whole pc and started fresh. it stopped happening until now.

as i said before, I had to format my whole pc, and then it was fine. I dont think its a PCU problem.

 

First of all it is not your power supply or PSU,I can tell you that.Go to www.microsoft.com and in the search window type "windows has recovered from a serious error" in the window.You will get some documentation from the error that you have received and a download patch for the problem.Tips from me:
1 make sure you have at least one gig hard drive space. 2.Make sure your CPU is not running at 100% all of the time.You may have some spyware crashing your system.Microsoft has a free beta version of their spyware remover at www.microsoft.com.Also a good registry cleaner will help kill spyware apps.go to www.ccleaner.com for a free registry cleaner.

 

Thanks Hijacker, I will try all those sites and try to fix the problem.

 

P.S: Spybot and ad-adware won't help.The maker of spybot does not make updates anymore and ad-aware you have to purchase a full copy to get updates.Atleast microsofts beta has updates and runs automatically.Or webroot has a good spyware remover.Can't think of it's name.

 

ok, thanks.

 

your problem could be hardware related but if you still think it isnt you can try this . spysweeper from webroot . you can try it for free or try before you buy .
http://www.webroot.com/downloads/?WRSID=403dfb81680b8618594abe6fcd95becf

 

I am going to try that link. Also for Hijacker, I went to the place and downlaoded th patch, but it said i have a better version. second I went to another link and it said that your drivers might not be updated if you have windows xp, which i have.

 

dlc2000, thanks for the link, i ran spysweeper and window washer, i found like 5 things from spysweeper. thanks!

 

im glad it worked well for you . now is your problem corrected or not ?

 

Well, my comp hasnt restarted for no reason in a while, so prbably. thanks.

 

Some bugs that will cause your computer to restart by its self.

W32.BLASTER
W32.GAOBOT
W32.SASSER

And the new W32.Spybot.HUR

These pest cause a DCOM RPC vulnerability and Security Authority Service Remote Buffer Overflow.
This causes the computer to randomly restart. Often you can find a scan and removal tool to get rid of it.
This link may help you decide if this is the cause.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.hur.html

 

i will have to try some of those things when i get in in the morning

 

I'm supprized noone has suggested anything to do with the memory. If the memory is faulty, a whole slew of issue can arrise, especially in memory intensive tasks such as video editing, etc.

If anyone is still having issues after trying all of the above, go here: http://www.memtest86.com/ and download memtest86 (its free and open source). burn it to a disk (you can even get ISOs about 1/2 way down the page) and reboot your PC with the disk in a drive. It will analyze your memory and tell you if you have any problems or not.

hope that helps.

 

I do technical support for a living so I get all kinds of problems. Usally a random reboot is a hardware or Operating System issues.

1.) Is Windows Patched?
2.) Are there IRQ conflicts with your Hardware?
3.) Is your power supply functioning right?
4.) Are you overcloking your CPU & if so is it cooled properly?
5.) Have you installed any new hardware latley?

 

ok i had the same problem i tried all the patches etc i even tryed changing my ram out with my friends comp it turned out to be the audio driver man i had a week or 2 of sleppless nights searching for somthin usefull l9ol ok bye bye

 

Um, what was wrong with your audio driver?

 

well i dunno i had the audio exelorator 1 on the but when i installed the bus driver ontop of that the problem went away
but the thing is that i need to get another one because surround sound doesnt work

 

oh thats probably just a problem for you, i think i fixed my problem. All i did was downlaod some free spyware remover stuff and cleaned my C: drive. And my computer hasnt restarted( without intention) since.

 

If you want to try another idea, right click on my computer and go to properties, then go to advanced. Click the recovery settings tab and uncheck restart automatically. Then instead of restarting, your computer should blue screen giving you the reason for the crash. Most likely it will be a device driver irq conflict or sys file. Try google'ing it and see if there is a solution.