Random reboots

[Robert Greening]

Ok, I'm having problems with random reboots. A couple of
days ago I removed my case fans so I could clean them. I
unplugged everything and also removed my RAM. Once I had
everything cleaned up I put it all back together and
booted the system it rebooted immediately after the POST.
So I rebooted and got to the login screen and once I
logged in it reboted again. This has been happening over
and over at completely random times. My personal opinion
is that it is most likely the RAM. But I have been taking
apart and putting computers together for many years and I
have never had a problem such as this or had RAM get
damaged in this way. If anyone has any other explanation
for these reboots, you suggestions would be appreiated.

 

[Michael Dauria]

use memtest86 to test the memory. memtest86.com is where its at.

 

[Mirko]

Maybe do some memory tests with one of the below test programs first.
Doesn't take too long.

memtest86+ 1.20 http://www.memtest.org/
Microsoft "Windows Memory Diagnostic"
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
MemTest (Windows) http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

 

[Ken Blake]

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Ok, I'm having problems with random reboots. A couple of
days ago I removed my case fans so I could clean them. I
unplugged everything and also removed my RAM. Once I had
everything cleaned up I put it all back together and
booted the system it rebooted immediately after the POST.
So I rebooted and got to the login screen and once I
logged in it reboted again. This has been happening over
and over at completely random times. My personal opinion
is that it is most likely the RAM.

You are presumably blue-screening, and you are set to reboot
whenever that happens. Right-click My Computer, and choose
Properties. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and
Recovery. Under System failure, uncheck the box "Automatically
restart."

Now when the problem occurs again, you will get the blue screen
with diagnostic information. Post back with those details for
more help.

 

[Guest]

I have actually disabled the reboot automatically feature
and it sill happens without blue screens. I also deleted
minidump files changed my swap file size, ran virus scans,
defragged, scandisked, etc.

 

[Guest]

Actually I did receive a blue screen one time. I believe
the error was something like 0x0000007F maybe. But I had
also checked my event viewer and it said something about
my userenv.dll which relates to roaming profile caching. I
do use a roaming profile account but the reboots also
happen if I am looged in locally and also before windows
even gets to the login screen.