I upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 (Pro) a few weeks ago.
I'm pretty sure that's when it started happening. Never
happens when I'm in the middle of something - just once in
the middle of the night. Since I started noticing it (at
least two weeks ago), it's been very consistent - happens
every single night. There must be some kind of setting,
but I can't find it!

It doesn't seem to be an abnormal restart, so I don't
think it's the power supply. I disabled the auto restart
if there's a fatal error and haven't been getting error
messages instead. No screen saver or power saver turned
on.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Kathleen

Schedule a job to run every five minutes so that you know
when exactly it happens. This might give you some clues.

@echo off
echo %date% %time% %ComputerName% is up and running >> c:\%ComputerName%.log


"Kathleen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:19c601c3c98f$f4ca97d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 (Pro) a few weeks ago.
> I'm pretty sure that's when it started happening. Never
> happens when I'm in the middle of something - just once in
> the middle of the night. Since I started noticing it (at
> least two weeks ago), it's been very consistent - happens
> every single night. There must be some kind of setting,
> but I can't find it!
>
> It doesn't seem to be an abnormal restart, so I don't
> think it's the power supply. I disabled the auto restart
> if there's a fatal error and haven't been getting error
> messages instead. No screen saver or power saver turned
> on.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kathleen

is it being patched with Windows Update during the middle of the night and
restarting as a result of the patching?

what about the event logs?
"Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Schedule a job to run every five minutes so that you know
> when exactly it happens. This might give you some clues.
>
> @echo off
> echo %date% %time% %ComputerName% is up and running >>
c:\%ComputerName%.log
>
>
> "Kathleen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:19c601c3c98f$f4ca97d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 (Pro) a few weeks ago.
> > I'm pretty sure that's when it started happening. Never
> > happens when I'm in the middle of something - just once in
> > the middle of the night. Since I started noticing it (at
> > least two weeks ago), it's been very consistent - happens
> > every single night. There must be some kind of setting,
> > but I can't find it!
> >
> > It doesn't seem to be an abnormal restart, so I don't
> > think it's the power supply. I disabled the auto restart
> > if there's a fatal error and haven't been getting error
> > messages instead. No screen saver or power saver turned
> > on.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kathleen
>
>

Not every night - the updates are released only once a week.

Steve

Katherine Coombs wrote:

> is it being patched with Windows Update during the middle of the night and
> restarting as a result of the patching?
>
> what about the event logs?
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Schedule a job to run every five minutes so that you know
>>when exactly it happens. This might give you some clues.
>>
>>@echo off
>>echo %date% %time% %ComputerName% is up and running >>
>
> c:\%ComputerName%.log
>
>>
>>"Kathleen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:19c601c3c98f$f4ca97d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>I upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 (Pro) a few weeks ago.
>>>I'm pretty sure that's when it started happening. Never
>>>happens when I'm in the middle of something - just once in
>>>the middle of the night. Since I started noticing it (at
>>>least two weeks ago), it's been very consistent - happens
>>>every single night. There must be some kind of setting,
>>>but I can't find it!
>>>
>>>It doesn't seem to be an abnormal restart, so I don't
>>>think it's the power supply. I disabled the auto restart
>>>if there's a fatal error and haven't been getting error
>>>messages instead. No screen saver or power saver turned
>>>on.
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Kathleen
>>
>>
>
>