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My Pc restarts unexpectedly...help!
about 6 months ago i upgraded to xp professional edition from windows me. i
had it done in a good pc place in my town. During this time everything has been very good until about a week ago. Now everytime i turn on my pc it will run for about 2 minutes...then it will shut off and restart opening up in disk check. The blue screen says something like there is a problem with a disk that needs to be checked...u can stop if u want to though.....problem with file system c FAT32, one disk is being checked for consistency and so on. After it restarts though my pc runs as normal as ever. I have tryed the system restore and it hasnt helped. Please help me, i dont have the money to go get a new pc. please email me at |
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My Pc restarts unexpectedly...help!
Hi
If you don't see any error messages, right click on My Computer, select Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on Settings under Startup and Recovery and disable 'Automatically restart'. Next time your PC reboots, you should see a Blue Screen. Could you please post the Stop Code from the BSOD? Also, please have a look in the Event Viewer to see if any entries there may refer to the problem. -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "~M~" wrote in message ... about 6 months ago i upgraded to xp professional edition from windows me. i had it done in a good pc place in my town. During this time everything has been very good until about a week ago. Now everytime i turn on my pc it will run for about 2 minutes...then it will shut off and restart opening up in disk check. The blue screen says something like there is a problem with a disk that needs to be checked...u can stop if u want to though.....problem with file system c FAT32, one disk is being checked for consistency and so on. After it restarts though my pc runs as normal as ever. I have tryed the system restore and it hasnt helped. Please help me, i dont have the money to go get a new pc. please email me at |
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My Pc restarts unexpectedly...help!
Will-
I've been watching this tread for a few days because I had the exact same problem. I wonder what your hunch is. Are you leaning towards a virus issue or a hardware problem? Before this thread appeared I decided to do a clean install of XP. The install failed and the screen went black and continually tried to reboot. What now? -John "Will Denny" wrote: Hi If you don't see any error messages, right click on My Computer, select Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on Settings under Startup and Recovery and disable 'Automatically restart'. Next time your PC reboots, you should see a Blue Screen. Could you please post the Stop Code from the BSOD? Also, please have a look in the Event Viewer to see if any entries there may refer to the problem. -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "~M~" wrote in message ... about 6 months ago i upgraded to xp professional edition from windows me. i had it done in a good pc place in my town. During this time everything has been very good until about a week ago. Now everytime i turn on my pc it will run for about 2 minutes...then it will shut off and restart opening up in disk check. The blue screen says something like there is a problem with a disk that needs to be checked...u can stop if u want to though.....problem with file system c FAT32, one disk is being checked for consistency and so on. After it restarts though my pc runs as normal as ever. I have tryed the system restore and it hasnt helped. Please help me, i dont have the money to go get a new pc. please email me at |
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My Pc restarts unexpectedly...help!
Hi ~m~,
Your computer seems to be infected with a worm, which has a timeout or reboot script embedded in it.Since in your message you state that your compter turns on, stay's on then for no apparent reason reboots. I would suggest you download and run McAfee stinger,its free and has the ablilty to detect and destroy 40 most common worms and trojans.Make sure your antivirus is working properly as some virus's or worms disable Antivirus applications.You can also view the latest virus's and worms at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ where you can download a free "FIX TOOL" . Depending on the virus or worm, these parasites have the ability to cause your computer to mal funtion in weird ways.Please keep me posted on your sucess, as a good samaritan i like helping people who are cash straped. Best of Luck Happy Holidays Surinder "~M~" wrote in message ... about 6 months ago i upgraded to xp professional edition from windows me. i had it done in a good pc place in my town. During this time everything has been very good until about a week ago. Now everytime i turn on my pc it will run for about 2 minutes...then it will shut off and restart opening up in disk check. The blue screen says something like there is a problem with a disk that needs to be checked...u can stop if u want to though.....problem with file system c FAT32, one disk is being checked for consistency and so on. After it restarts though my pc runs as normal as ever. I have tryed the system restore and it hasnt helped. Please help me, i dont have the money to go get a new pc. please email me at |
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Problem Solved!!!
It was a bad CD-RW. I was booting from the CD-RW and never completed an XP
clean install. One by one I started removing PCI cards. First tried a replacement video card, then removed the modem, then the sound card, then the floppy, then the DVD, then I reinstalled the DVD, removed the CD-RW, and tried a final time. Success was mine! -John "JMAC" wrote: Will- I've been watching this tread for a few days because I had the exact same problem. I wonder what your hunch is. Are you leaning towards a virus issue or a hardware problem? Before this thread appeared I decided to do a clean install of XP. The install failed and the screen went black and continually tried to reboot. What now? -John "Will Denny" wrote: Hi If you don't see any error messages, right click on My Computer, select Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on Settings under Startup and Recovery and disable 'Automatically restart'. Next time your PC reboots, you should see a Blue Screen. Could you please post the Stop Code from the BSOD? Also, please have a look in the Event Viewer to see if any entries there may refer to the problem. -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "~M~" wrote in message ... about 6 months ago i upgraded to xp professional edition from windows me. i had it done in a good pc place in my town. During this time everything has been very good until about a week ago. Now everytime i turn on my pc it will run for about 2 minutes...then it will shut off and restart opening up in disk check. The blue screen says something like there is a problem with a disk that needs to be checked...u can stop if u want to though.....problem with file system c FAT32, one disk is being checked for consistency and so on. After it restarts though my pc runs as normal as ever. I have tryed the system restore and it hasnt helped. Please help me, i dont have the money to go get a new pc. please email me at |
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