Spontaneous Reboots

[david g]

you could try flashing the bios on the machine also
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a friend who recently atarted running a 3.06Ghz
>Processor (pentium) on a new motherboard with 1gb of
>memory. (processor MoBo and memory are new). He has
>experinced spontaneous reboots at random tims ever sicne
>then. The HD was formatted prior to the system set up
and
>he installed win xp hom edition, then the updates.. then
>the drivers for his various components. All drivers and
>directX are at there most recent versions and XP is
>compltely updated.
>
>Has anyone experienced a problem like this and found a
>fix for it? Windows will sometimes provide an error log
>and it says the winxp has failed to start a certain
>device sicne the device was not working properly. It
wont
>tell what device this is though.
>
>Here is the second curious thing: Under the device
>manager it lists his processor twice. Is this normal for
>a single processor. I dont think so. I plan to go into
>safe mode at his PC and remove the ectra processor that
>is listed.
>
>ANY advice on any of the issues or my plan of action
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Marc G
>.
>