Spontaneous reboot

[Guest]

I have installed XP-Pro on an older P2, 451mHz, 256K system. Every so often,
the system spontaneously reboots. Any one elese experience this? Any
suggestions as to the cause and remedy??

Thanks ....

 

[Plato]

I have installed XP-Pro on an older P2, 451mHz, 256K system. Every so often,
the system spontaneously reboots. Any one elese experience this? Any
suggestions as to the cause and remedy??

Are you sure its an XP issue? Why did you install XP on an older system?
Was it to fix some existing problem? Perhaps it was rebooting before
with the os that it had on it.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

(1) Most often that is a memory problem. You can test it with Memtest
program, www.memtest.org

(2) That can be a poor power unit.

(3) That may be also that processor is overheated (say, cooler does not
rotate freely; or heatsink is too dusted).

The other hardware reasons are possible, too -- but these three are the
main candidates.

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http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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[MGGP]

I assume that you have, and run, current anti-virus and
anti-spyware programs, even though this sounds like a
hardware issue.

1) Turn off XP's auto-restart-on-error feature and perhaps
you'll get a message with useful information the next time
it happens. Right-click on My Computer, go to Properties,
Advanced tab, click the Startup & Recovery section's
Settings button and uncheck the "Automatically Restart"
item under System Failure.

2) Look in the Event Viewer for a clue. Go to Start, Run,
type compmgmt.msc, hit OK, go to Event Viewer and look
around. Things that you don't understand can be looked up
on Google.

3) Check the motherboard manufacturer's web site and see
if you have the latest version of the BIOS. The current
version can be checked here: Go to Start, Run, type
msinfo32 and hit OK. Look at BIOS Version/Date.

Good Luck !

 

[Ken Blake]

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I have installed XP-Pro on an older P2, 451mHz, 256K system.
Every
so often, the system spontaneously reboots. Any one elese
experience
this? Any suggestions as to the cause and remedy??

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, instead of blue-screening, you
will get the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back
with those details for more help.

 

[Steve N.]

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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, instead of blue-screening, you
will get the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back
with those details for more help.

I've often given the same advice but I got to thinking, can't one simply
look for the equivalent error message(s) in Event Viewer/System log?

Steve

 

[Ken Blake]

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I've often given the same advice but I got to thinking, can't
one
simply look for the equivalent error message(s) in Event
Viewer/System log?

Yes, but I prefer to keep the diagnostic information visible and
not hidden.

 

[Steve N.]

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Yes, but I prefer to keep the diagnostic information visible and
not hidden.

I do, too, but was just thinking it would save time.

Steve