OT PC help

[MightyTic]

Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction.... as regards to my PC.


I have Win XP Home , with SP2 and my Firewall is Norton Internet Security with Norton 2004 Anti virus all full editions (store bought ) and up todate with "Live Update" which is on auto, even with that on I still do a manual look for updates everyday...

The thing I have noticed in the last while is my PC is rebooting, I was playing PES3 QF KCup just beat Barca 2-1 to get to the semi final and when I clicked to get back to the main menu my PC rebooted. Now I just thought it might be a glitch in PES and thought nothing more about it...

My PC runs a Norton full PC virus check every Friday night and when I came in tonight I noticed that it had run and my PC was clean...

I then went to write a topic in the forum and as I clicked to send the post, my PC rebooted it's self ...


Anyone any idea why this might be happening? As I said my PC is clean .......and my Firewall is on at all times as is my anti-virus!

[Sime0n]

How do you connect to the internet? What modem do you use?

I had a similar problem when i did certain things, including say using peer 2 peer sharing programmes and it was to do with my modem driver, also in xp there is an option that causes xp to reboot on an error. Go to system properties (right click on My Computer on the desktop) click on the advanced tab, where you will find startup & recovery info, click on the settings button for it and in the new box that opens uncheck automatically reset. Might help.

Then of course it could be an overheating problem, or sometimes a power supply problem, or which can be the most common problem sometimes when RAM goes bad can do the same, or a bad IDE cable.

This website can help with some tests might be able to identify a problem http://www.passmark.com/

Also I've heard theres a known bug in SP-2 that causes your symptoms with Athlon 64 bit CPU's.

Also when it reboots Right click on my computer,
Then manage,
Then event viewer ,
then system should tell you in there.. why it restarted.

Also i would get the updated drivers for your graphics card.

lol not been very specific but it might give you some groundwork to identifying the problem.

[Perth Glory]

Could be a few things. Virus, heat, random windows problem.
Sounds more heat/motherboard related to me.
If components are running too hot, most motherboards will shut down to avoid further damage.
How hot is your PC running? Are the side/back cool to touch(except power supply)? Is there decent air flow around the box? Is it right next to a heater?
In the Australian summer I had to run with the side of my box off as it was having the same restart problems you're describing.
Have you taken a look inside the box to see if any of your fans have stopped working?
Could be your motherboard is about to die.

How long have you had windows Sp2 installed? SP2 completely ****ed my comp up. Had to reinstall windows then install SP2 without installing any other drivers.

Also worth trying are Ad-aware and AVG, free spyware and virus removal programs.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

[Perth Glory]

Originally posted by Sime0n
Also I've heard theres a known bug in SP-2 that causes your symptoms with Athlon 64 bit CPU's.

Ahh, thats what my problem was then.

lol not been very specific but it might give you some groundwork to identifying the problem.

These are solutions we've both pulled off the top of our heads...you can understand why people go for consoles

[MightyTic]

Thanks for your replies ........


I unchecked the auto restart in the Advanced Tab, I'll see if that does the trick. If not it might lead my to the fault as my PC should not now reboot on auto but might prompt me for a manual reboot..


Again Thanks for the help!