COMPUTER RE-BOOTING

[Phil]

Can anyone help?

My computer keeps rebooting for no apparent reason. I
have Windows XP installed on a AMD2600. It makes no
difference wherever I am working - all of a sudden it
just re-boots and starts again with no error messages. I
have checked the CPU temperature and that is at 71
degrees, is it that?

Grateful for any help

Phil

 

[Chris Lanier]

More Information:

Windows XP may encounter a problem during startup that results in a STOP
error message. Depending on the system configuration, the error message on a
blue screen may not be displayed long enough to record the error
information. To gather important information about the STOP error message
and to verify the cause:

Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. On the Advanced tab,
click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
Click to clear the Automatically restart check box under System failure, and
then click OK. The error message on a blue screen should remain on the
screen so you can record the error information.

Instantly Reboot Upon a System Fault

Start/Run/Regedit. Navigate to...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

In the right pane choose AutoReboot/Right Click/Modify. Change value to 0 to
disable and 1 to enable.

Source: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_restart.htm

 

[tom]

It could be a number of things. But the temp seems very
high. I would take measures to reduce the temp and see if
this helps.

 

[[Sinan]]

It sounds to me it could be MSBlast virus.

Check this out :

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

Sinan

 

[NobodyMan]

Can anyone help?

My computer keeps rebooting for no apparent reason. I
have Windows XP installed on a AMD2600. It makes no
difference wherever I am working - all of a sudden it
just re-boots and starts again with no error messages. I
have checked the CPU temperature and that is at 71
degrees, is it that?

Grateful for any help

Phil

71 degrees WHAT? Farenheit or celcius? It makes a HUGE difference.
I doubt it's farenhet as I've never seen a system that can cool that
efficiently. If celcius, you could be overheating and the system may
be shutting down to try and protect itself, depending on what the BIOS
and any alert software you have is set to do.

 

[NobodyMan]

It sounds to me it could be MSBlast virus.

Check this out :

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

Sinan

Doubtful it's Blaster, as the OP is receiving NO messages prior to
shutdown. Blaster shuts down using NT authority system and informs
the user about it.