Booting spontaneously

[Bernard Liengme]

I am running Vista Home Premium on an HP DV6000 notebook. It keeps
spontaneously rebooting even when noting is running but Windows. After a few
reboots it needs to boot in safe mode or be cold started. Anyone got a cure
for this?
many thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Spontaneous restarts are often heat related. Make sure the intake and
exhaust vents are not blocked (left rear corner) and that the fan is
operating when the unit feels hot.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Rick Rogers]

It is unlikely that a dump file is being created on a spontaneous reboot.
They are created when, as you indicated, a stop error (blue screen) occurs.
A sudden reboot is more likely to be a hardware protection mechanism kicking
in, the operating system would receive no warning and the memory dump would
not happen.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Certainly it does, but the key is word "spontaneous". A stop error will have
a blue screen, even if it's only long enough for the memory dump to record.
It may be brief, but is definitely noticeable. A hardware initiated one
wouldn't, it'd be instantaneous. The OP made no mention of a blue screen,
but rather used a fairly definitive term - at least for me - which points
towards a hardware issue. But yes, you could be right.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com