SFC /SCANNOW and SP2

[nofixed]

My XP Home system has been resetting itself recently, sometimes with the
shutdown window, other times like the reset button was pressed.

VET, Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D report no problems.
I am currently running SFC. It would be *really* nice if it would tell me
when it restores anything.

Question: Do I need to re-apply SP2 after SFC finishes?

Thanks
Jim

[Will Denny]

Hi Jim

When the PC resets itself, do you see any error messages at all? Is the
reset a shutdown or a reboot? Have a look in the Event Viewer so see if any
entries there may point towards the problem.

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"nofixed" > wrote in message
...
> My XP Home system has been resetting itself recently, sometimes with the
> shutdown window, other times like the reset button was pressed.
>
> VET, Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D report no problems.
> I am currently running SFC. It would be *really* nice if it would tell me
> when it restores anything.
>
> Question: Do I need to re-apply SP2 after SFC finishes?
>
> Thanks
> Jim

[nofixed]

Hi Will

Thanks for the quick reply. Sometimes it's like 'shutdown -r -t 60' has
been entered, and sometimes like a hardware reset. No error messages are
displayed.

It's my wife's machine. I have not seen the resets myself. To my knowlege
she has not seen any error messages.

Also, the computer hung on 'shutdown -s -t 5' this evening.

I will not have access to the computer for about 12 hours now. I will check
the Event Viewer then.

Jim


"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi Jim
>
> When the PC resets itself, do you see any error messages at all? Is the
> reset a shutdown or a reboot? Have a look in the Event Viewer so see if any
> entries there may point towards the problem.
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
>
> "nofixed" > wrote in message
> ...
> > My XP Home system has been resetting itself recently, sometimes with the
> > shutdown window, other times like the reset button was pressed.
> >
> > VET, Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D report no problems.
> > I am currently running SFC. It would be *really* nice if it would tell me
> > when it restores anything.
> >
> > Question: Do I need to re-apply SP2 after SFC finishes?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jim
>
>
>

[Steve N.]

nofixed wrote:

> My XP Home system has been resetting itself recently, sometimes with the
> shutdown window, other times like the reset button was pressed.
>
> VET, Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D report no problems.
> I am currently running SFC. It would be *really* nice if it would tell me
> when it restores anything.
>
> Question: Do I need to re-apply SP2 after SFC finishes?
>
> Thanks
> Jim

Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced tab, under Startup and
recovery Settings un-check Automatically restart. When the problem
happens you will see the error on screen.

I'd also do a Start, Run, CHKDSK /F to fix file system problems.

No you do not need to re-apply SP2 after SFC runs.

Steve