Computer Restarts when I am away

[JP]

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?

 

[Shirley Worrall]

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?

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!

 

[Aunty Christ]

make sure "wake on ring" and "wake on lan" are disabled in the bios..

 

[Frank]

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.

 

[Maureen Goldman]

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?

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.