User Logoff Triggers Restart

[Tony]

Just noticed that Windows 2000 sometimes restarts when a
user logs off, rather than just going back to a log-in
dialog. I cannot find a similar problem in KB--maybe
there's a better search string than "log off restarts",
perhaps?

This happens predictably after playing a game (Rise of
Nations), but it also happens after a user has only been
browsing on the web for a couple hours--no other apps
running.

When it restarts it goes through a file check as though it
had been shut down improperly. If that were so, why would
it restart?

Any thoughts, solutions?

 

[Greg Lirette [MS]]

I suspect that the system is hitting a bug check (Blue Screen) during
logoff and the system is configured to restart in the event of a bugcheck.
I suspect if you configured it not to restart in the event of a bugcheck
you would see the blue screen which may or may not be too helpful without
further debugging.


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