Need Help

[Rick]

To anyone who may know how to fix this... For some
reason my computer will periodically shutdown and reboot
automatically. It's become quite annoying. I'll be in
the middle of something, then all of a sudden, it shuts
down and reboots. I've tried to figure out what may be
causing this and fix it, but thus far I haven't had any
luck. If anyone has had this problem before and fixed
it, or just knows something to do to try to fix it, your
help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick

 

[Jim Macklin]

Heat build-up, power supply interruptions or a virus are the
first thoughts tom come to mind.
You can open the control panel power applet and set the
computer to stay off. Then if it shuts down it will stay
off. It should be set to do a memory dump so you can look
at the log and see what was the cause.

You could connect a UPS so the power won't fail (this is a
good idea anytime).

Scan for viruses.


| To anyone who may know how to fix this... For some
| reason my computer will periodically shutdown and reboot
| automatically. It's become quite annoying. I'll be in
| the middle of something, then all of a sudden, it shuts
| down and reboots. I've tried to figure out what may be
| causing this and fix it, but thus far I haven't had any
| luck. If anyone has had this problem before and fixed
| it, or just knows something to do to try to fix it, your
| help would be very much appreciated.
| Thanks,
| Rick

 

[Ron Rector]

Click on start and right click my computer. Choose
properties.
Go to the advanced tab. Go to startup and recovery and
click the settings button.
Under system failure uncheck automatically restart.

Now when it shuts down it should give you a blue screen
with information. Post this information when it becomes
available.

 

[Alex Nichol]

To anyone who may know how to fix this... For some
reason my computer will periodically shutdown and reboot
automatically. It's become quite annoying.

You have something that is crashing, and the system's 'automatically
restart' is cutting in. Turn this off: in Control Panel - System -
Advanced, click Settings in the Startup and Recovery section. There
uncheck 'automatically restart'. You can also usefully change the
'write debugging information' to (none) unless you are actively needing
a dump for debugging something, or to 'minidump' if you are getting
errors that you wish to report on to Microsoft. You may now get a Blue
screen failure instead, but at least will get some guidance as to what
is happening