Mysterious windows xp reboot on login screen

[thegerman8tor]

Suddenly, the laptop has developed some disturbing behaviour. I get to
the XP login screen. If I don't do anything, it reboots the machine.
If I quickly login, it seems to pull through as if nothing was wrong.
I have no info as to what the error is.
I am at a loss what could be initiated when I don't login straight
away that would cause the problem? Or could it be that the same piece
of code is happier if the desktop is already loaded?

Thanks in advance.

Gilesx

 

[Rock]

Suddenly, the laptop has developed some disturbing behaviour. I get to
the XP login screen. If I don't do anything, it reboots the machine.
If I quickly login, it seems to pull through as if nothing was wrong.
I have no info as to what the error is.
I am at a loss what could be initiated when I don't login straight
away that would cause the problem? Or could it be that the same piece
of code is happier if the desktop is already loaded?

Interesting. Set the system to not reboot on error. Right click on My
Computer | Properties | Advanced | Startup and Recovery | Settings. Untic
the box to Automatically restart on system failure. See if it throws up an
error next time. If so research it here. http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm