PC reboots even with "Automatically Restart" disabled

[peteski22]

Hi all,

I have a problem which is causing the PC to reboot randomly (could be
days between reboots or minutes). I initially tried the following...

Disabled the 'auto restart' in startup and recovery, this lead to me
getting the blue screen of death.. I then changed the RAM and it seemed
to stop, however.. this was only for a week or so.

I still have the PC set to show the Blue Screen of Death if hardware
fails, but it just reboots without doing this.. I was wondering if
anyone thought it could be a dying PSU?

If not any other ideas? Maybe a driver issue, but seems a bit strange..
also the Windows XP firewall doesn't start no matter what (but thats
another problem).

Thanks for any help
Peter

 

[Malke]

Hi all,

I have a problem which is causing the PC to reboot randomly (could be
days between reboots or minutes). I initially tried the following...

Disabled the 'auto restart' in startup and recovery, this lead to me
getting the blue screen of death.. I then changed the RAM and it
seemed to stop, however.. this was only for a week or so.

I still have the PC set to show the Blue Screen of Death if hardware
fails, but it just reboots without doing this.. I was wondering if
anyone thought it could be a dying PSU?

If not any other ideas? Maybe a driver issue, but seems a bit
strange.. also the Windows XP firewall doesn't start no matter what
(but thats another problem).

Troubleshooting requires that you be methodical. Go through the hardware
troubleshooting steps systematically:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Malke

 

[Gerry Cornell]

What happens if you disable automatic restart on system failure
another way. Keep pressing the F8 key during StartUp and
select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

Have you run a full anti-virus check? There are some nasties
that cause rebooting.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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