Hello Ive posted this topic before, without much luck it getting it sorted! Can anyone help. To help you, to help me I know this for a fact! ****ITS NOT A VIRUS**** its as if i acully hit the reset button accidentaly! Just reboots, when i disable automatic reboots, it blue screens... This only happeens randomly...!?!? theres no pattern Been told it could be: Bad ram My adsl usb modem crap harddrive please help me
I also have experienced a couple of random shutdowns. Most have occured when I have been running multiple programs that take up RAM. It could be that your RAM is bad or you do not have enough of it. Try finding more about what the causes are, it may be something other than the RAM.
OK this could be a lot of things. Check your bios and make sure cpu throttling is off. Also check your powersupply. Is it really light weight? That is the sign of a crappy power supply. Also if you post your system specs it will be easier to help you.
pinkerton it could be anything I had a pc do not so discimilair to what you describe for over a week engineer came out replaced the power pack was positive it was that .......only system carried on after he had gone so I decided to investigate within 2 minutes of taking the back off I found a dozen or so capcitors had spiked at the top ........can tell you was not pleased cause the dum shit took it apart looked and didn't even notice them ......not much help but the problem you describe could be alotta things DaOsT
He he ..... I had this problem for many months , the problem even came with me when i upgraded my PC ! I finally narrowed the problem to the USB driver for my cable modem ! DO NOT USE USB DRIVERS from your internet vendor just go directly to the company and get them ! And YES the problem with vanish ! ***email removed by moderator*** Ps .... My cable modem is a motorola ! Let me know how you gone on ! _X_X_X_X_X_[small]- - P s Y m O n - -[/small]
Just been through the same thing with my PC ..random reboots. As the others have said could many things BUT mine turned out to be MB/CPU Temperature problem .. the fans had stopped working.. unless you take the lid off your PC and have a look you may not know. Try MBM5 software from http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ ..its free.
it could also be a bad network card, i see it quite a bit more than you'd think really. Always random, never a sign or warning. the only way i pinned it down in the beginning was it always seemed to happen when i was downloading at over 50k, but it also happened when the machine was idle.
This can also be caused by software conflicts. I recently installed Yahoo Messenger so I could chat with a friend who's on it all the time at work. Starting the next time I rebooted, my computer would shut down randomly. I eventually figured out that it was a combination of that program and Daemon Tools that caused the problem. Now there's no reason why those 2 programs should have problems together (that I know of), but apparently they didn't get along well on Windows XP. Of course with Windows XP I've seen so many cases of unrelated software conflicting on 1 machine when it doesn't on others that I'm never surprised by it. Another time I had random reboots it was caused by an ATA100 cable that had a broken wire. The PC was fine until Windows 2000 got too many errors during a data transfer, and then it rebooted.
Right my system spec! [bold]athlon 2.1GB Geforce 2 392,688kb RAM Windows 2000 (all updated packs etc...) 300w PSU[/bold] I even changed my motherboard,processer thinking it was that, but no... ive had diff graphics cards etc. Only thing ive kept the same is my psu, ram and hdd. I have zone alarm running... but nothing tooooo big to eat up my RAM, i'll try your suggestions... but to me it just randomly started happening... it goes days being fine, then starts to f**k up. I do also have a pipex adsl usb modem. I use the drivers which came with it.
