reboot

[Paul T. Holt]

Hello. I have been having a problem for the last few days. What would make
my computer randomly reboot? It rebooted six times yesterday, for
absolutely no reason and a couple of times today. It is a very irritating
problem! Please help me. Thank you.

My system: Dell Dimension Pentium IV 2.8 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, running Windows
XP Home Edition (with service pack 2), SoundBlaster Live, NVidia Gforce 4 MX
420 video card with 64 MB of RAM, DVD drive and CD-RW drive, 40 gigabyte
hard drive.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Open the Event Viewer ans see if there're any related errors.

Event ID & the Event Source are very important.

To open the Event Viewer...
Start | Run | Type: eventvwr | OK

For any Events that seem related to the problem...

Double click the event in Event Viewer | Click: the button below the second
arrow (looks like two pages) [[Copies the details of the event to the
Clipboard.]] | Paste into Notepad | Click:
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Read all info | Copy and paste to Notepad | Click the [+] Related Knowledge
Base articles | Follow any links that might be useful

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427

This can also be very useful.
You need to have the Event ID & the Event Source.

Windows XP Professional Events and Errors
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/su...ows Operating System&MajorMinor=5.1&LCID=1033

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This won't fix your problem, but it'll keep your machine from rebooting.

Unless the rebooting is caused by a hardware problem.

It may also help reading a BSOD.

Choosing recovery actions if Windows stops unexpectedly

Right click My Computer | Properties | Advanced tab |
Click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery |
Under System Failure | UNCheck: Automatically restart |
OK |Apply | OK

[[Specifies whether Windows will automatically reboot whenever the system
stops unexpectedly.
You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group to set
recovery options.]]