I've had enough

[john]

I've had enough! This blasted computer of mine.
For the past couple of weeks or so my PC has been unexoectedly rebooting on
it's own. I've tried looking into every possible area that could cause
this. I just reformated my HD, updated all new updated didn't a thing and
it still does the same this. I even replaced my power supply, thinking this
mite be the cause. My system is as follows win200 Pro 30g HD, 256 ram Cd
burner running on a Pentium II 500mhz. nothing else. Is it possible that I
have a bad HD. I've checked my bios and could fined anythis out of the
ordinary. Please could someone lead me to a better place.

John

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I've had enough! This blasted computer of mine.
For the past couple of weeks or so my PC has been unexoectedly rebooting on
it's own. I've tried looking into every possible area that could cause
this. I just reformated my HD, updated all new updated didn't a thing and
it still does the same this. I even replaced my power supply, thinking this
mite be the cause. My system is as follows win200 Pro 30g HD, 256 ram Cd
burner running on a Pentium II 500mhz. nothing else. Is it possible that I
have a bad HD. I've checked my bios and could fined anythis out of the
ordinary. Please could someone lead me to a better place.

Hi

It could be a flay RAM chip as well...

 

[Gale Coleman]

Hello,

I had this very thing happen to me and it was a part on the mother board
that was leaking and causing overheating. I ended up replacing the
motherboard and everything was fine.

Gale

 

[sgopus]

The many and varied reasons pc's spontanously reboot are
endless, I suggest you take it in to your local repair
shop and see if they can find a hardware fault.

On an aside do you have AV software? are you certain you
don't have a virus/trojan, do you have a firewall? if so
what kind? is it possible you have allowed (unknowingly)
someone to gain access to your pc from the internet?
any wireless equipment that allows access to your pc?

 

[xandros user]

1. what temp is pu running?
2. Are you running zonealarm firewall? It can cause reboots
3. Change your "auto reboot"on faults so you can see the BSOD sceen
4. check your event log

xandros user bob

 

[Guest]

Like others have suggested, I would recommend a nice
throough AV and spyware scan/cleaning and see if problems
still persist. This was happening on my wife's PC last
week and she downlaoded some AV software and found quite a
few viruses and hasn't had a problem since.

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Try our RAM checker on the machine:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp