random restarts

[mike]

i recently changed my motherboard. All seems to be fine
except that at random intervals, the system restarts for
no apparent reason. Any ideas? I just switched both my
HD's to SATA if that helps.

Thanks in advance..

mike

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Mike,

Start/run eventvwr.msc

See what the system and application logs tell you about the reboots. WinXP
is set to autorestart on a system failure, this is to prevent damage to the
machine. You can disable this default from the control panel/system/advanced
tab/startup and recovery settings. Doing so should produce a blue screen or
stop error next time it happens rather than a reboot. We can research the
error message once we know what it is.

A question, when you upgraded the motherboard and switched to the sata
drives, did you at least do a repair installation of the existing WinXP
installation?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi!Mike!
Have you tried in safe mode?updated drivers ?Look at the event viewer.
controlpanel>Adminisrative tools > Event viewer-look here for
application errors
[win key]+[Break] > system properties>Advanced>settings under startup
and recovery> uncheck auomatically restart under system failure>ok>restart
regards/
ssg[MS-MVP]/Pronetworks.org