Computer Restarts when I am away

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My computer has taken on a mind of its own. It will
restart within 15 minutes of a turn off. Any ideas on how
I can stop this?
 
My computer has taken on a mind of its own. It will
restart within 15 minutes of a turn off. Any ideas on how
I can stop this?
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Hi,

It sounds as though this could be the msblaster worm which has been
all over the place for almost a week. Whizz over to the Microsoft
support pages, read all about it and then install the patch.

Good luck!
 
There is three things that could be happening:
1. A program or driver in the background is causing a fatal error which
causes a reboot. You can go to system properties, advanced, startup and
recovery and uncheck the restart on fatal error. The next time you encounter
a fatal error the computer will not reboot it will show you a blue screen
which could give some indication of what program or driver is causing the
problem.
2.Your computer is overheating causing the CPU to reboot.
3. You have a virus. Run a virus scan off the internet to see if it picks up
anything. Sometimes a virus can also effect the virus scan program installed
on your computer so that it does not detect viruses properly.
 
JP said:
My computer has taken on a mind of its own. It will
restart within 15 minutes of a turn off. Any ideas on how
I can stop this?
Click to expand...

Is it shut down or on standby when this happens? If on standby, your
problem might be that the mouse is sensitive to vibrations. Put it on
a piece of foam. If shutdown, then that's likely a BIOS setting.
 
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