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I have a 2.83 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 computer from Packard Bell with 512 Mb RAM
and Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2.
The computer has worked fine for several months now. I have had a wireless
network PCI card in it that I never got to work. Last week I called the
manufacturer of the wireledd card (Sitecom) to find out if they could help me
setting up my network and they told me that their drivers don't work with
Service Pack 2.
So I uninstalled Service Pack 2 and about an hour after that my computer
spontanuously rebooted. That happened three times. I had only a few Internet
Explorer windows open and was doing nothing special. After the third time I
decided to put Service Pack 2 back. I also used my McAfee virus scan to scan
my computer and I ran Lavasoft Ad-Aware to make sure that I didn't have any
Spyware or anything like that that was causing the reboots.
Then my computer worked well for a week. But today I left my computer
unattended (disconnected from the Internet) and when I came back several
hours later it had rebooted. All the windows I had open were closed and I saw
in the Event Log that it had restarted at 12:32, but I didn't see anything
bad in the Event Log that may have caused the reboot.
I find this scary because about a half year ago just after I bought this
computer it also rebooted several times on itself and then suddenly it
completely crashed and the entire harddisk was empty. I lost everything,
including the hidden back-up of the system that Packard Bell puts on the
harddisk. I had to wait several weeks for their recovery CD. I'm afraid this
is going to happen again now because of the rebooting issue.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I have just turned off
the "restart on error" setting in the Advanced setting under the Properties
of My Computer, so if it happens again hopefully I get to see an error.
Many thanks,
Arthur
and Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2.
The computer has worked fine for several months now. I have had a wireless
network PCI card in it that I never got to work. Last week I called the
manufacturer of the wireledd card (Sitecom) to find out if they could help me
setting up my network and they told me that their drivers don't work with
Service Pack 2.
So I uninstalled Service Pack 2 and about an hour after that my computer
spontanuously rebooted. That happened three times. I had only a few Internet
Explorer windows open and was doing nothing special. After the third time I
decided to put Service Pack 2 back. I also used my McAfee virus scan to scan
my computer and I ran Lavasoft Ad-Aware to make sure that I didn't have any
Spyware or anything like that that was causing the reboots.
Then my computer worked well for a week. But today I left my computer
unattended (disconnected from the Internet) and when I came back several
hours later it had rebooted. All the windows I had open were closed and I saw
in the Event Log that it had restarted at 12:32, but I didn't see anything
bad in the Event Log that may have caused the reboot.
I find this scary because about a half year ago just after I bought this
computer it also rebooted several times on itself and then suddenly it
completely crashed and the entire harddisk was empty. I lost everything,
including the hidden back-up of the system that Packard Bell puts on the
harddisk. I had to wait several weeks for their recovery CD. I'm afraid this
is going to happen again now because of the rebooting issue.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I have just turned off
the "restart on error" setting in the Advanced setting under the Properties
of My Computer, so if it happens again hopefully I get to see an error.
Many thanks,
Arthur