Re-booting

[Don]

I am running Windows XP on a Dell machine. For about a month now, I have had
a problem of it re-booting for no apparent reason. There is no pattern to
the re-booting. What causes this problem and how can I correct it?

 

[Rich Barry]

Don, rt click MyComputer>select Properties>Advanced>Startup and
Recovery-Settings>Uncheck Auto restart box. Next time this happens you may
get a BSOD with error
message. Post the message back here.

 

[VanguardLH]

I am running Windows XP on a Dell machine. For about a month now, I have had
a problem of it re-booting for no apparent reason. There is no pattern to
the re-booting. What causes this problem and how can I correct it?

Use a monitor to start watching the temperatures of your CPU and case.
Might indicate something is overheating. Does Dell include temperature
monitoring software? If not, you can probably use Speedfan.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am running Windows XP on a Dell machine. For about a month now, I have had
a problem of it re-booting for no apparent reason. There is no pattern to
the re-booting. What causes this problem and how can I correct it?

If your computer is restarting spontaneously, you are presumably
blue-screening, and you are set to the default of rebooting whenever
that happens. It's a poor default setting and you should change it.
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, instead of restarting, you will get
the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back with those
details for more help.

 

[Jim]

I am running Windows XP on a Dell machine. For about a month now, I have had
a problem of it re-booting for no apparent reason. There is no pattern to
the re-booting. What causes this problem and how can I correct it?

Overheating ?