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System reboots for no reason
For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What
causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
With such little detail from you it's anyone's guess. I'll take two guesses:
1- Your power supply is failing. 2- Your computer is infected with malware. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Bob wrote: For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
With such little detail from you it's anyone's guess. I'll take two guesses:
1- Your power supply is failing. 2- Your computer is infected with malware. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Bob wrote: For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
I'll take one too.
- Overheating. Clean up your cpu from dust. "Leonard Grey" wrote: With such little detail from you it's anyone's guess. I'll take two guesses: 1- Your power supply is failing. 2- Your computer is infected with malware. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Bob wrote: For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
I'll take one too.
- Overheating. Clean up your cpu from dust. "Leonard Grey" wrote: With such little detail from you it's anyone's guess. I'll take two guesses: 1- Your power supply is failing. 2- Your computer is infected with malware. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Bob wrote: For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
I say Heat.
"Bob" wrote in message ... For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
I say Heat.
"Bob" wrote in message ... For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. |
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System reboots for no reason
Bob wrote:
For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. While heat, as others have suggested is a possible cause, you could also have a failing power supply, or possibly failing capacitors on the mother board. If the problem is worse when you are using the computer heavily use a program like Speedfan to monitor the temperatures and voltages to see if anything is going out of normal. If it reboots while idle it could be a capacitor on the motherboard failing. To spot these look for leaking or distorted parts on the mother board. |
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System reboots for no reason
Bob wrote:
For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. While heat, as others have suggested is a possible cause, you could also have a failing power supply, or possibly failing capacitors on the mother board. If the problem is worse when you are using the computer heavily use a program like Speedfan to monitor the temperatures and voltages to see if anything is going out of normal. If it reboots while idle it could be a capacitor on the motherboard failing. To spot these look for leaking or distorted parts on the mother board. |
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System reboots for no reason
Bob wrote:
For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. While all the replies so far are good suggestions, are you sure the system is spontaneously rebooting or is the system expericncing a "blue screen" and automatically restarting itself. That *is* the default behavior of Windows XP. Right click My Computer, Click the Advanced tab. Under Startup & Recovery, click Settings. In the System Failure section see if Automatically Restart is checked. If it is, uncheck it. Now use the computer for a while. If the system is indeed "blue screening" it will halt with the blue screen of death visible. You can then investigate the specific Stop error code and information to work with. Overheating of the CPU due to too much dust in the cooling fans can indeed cause the problems you are having, but there could be other problems as well. Until you force the system to *not* automatically reboot on a System Failure you reall can't know for sure. John -- John Dearing A+, Network+, Server+ To Reply, just drop "yourpants" from my address! 8-) |
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System reboots for no reason
Bob wrote:
For the past week or so my system reboots itself for no apparent reason.What causes this to happen? Is it a windows issue or a problem with the computer itself? Thanks for any help. While all the replies so far are good suggestions, are you sure the system is spontaneously rebooting or is the system expericncing a "blue screen" and automatically restarting itself. That *is* the default behavior of Windows XP. Right click My Computer, Click the Advanced tab. Under Startup & Recovery, click Settings. In the System Failure section see if Automatically Restart is checked. If it is, uncheck it. Now use the computer for a while. If the system is indeed "blue screening" it will halt with the blue screen of death visible. You can then investigate the specific Stop error code and information to work with. Overheating of the CPU due to too much dust in the cooling fans can indeed cause the problems you are having, but there could be other problems as well. Until you force the system to *not* automatically reboot on a System Failure you reall can't know for sure. John -- John Dearing A+, Network+, Server+ To Reply, just drop "yourpants" from my address! 8-) |
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