"Wild reboot" on Windows XP Service Pack2

[Guest]

Hi,

I am facing a reboot issue on my PC.
I am running Windows XP Pro. I installed the service Pack 2.
I have as well Internet Security 6 from Mcafee and Incredimail as my e-mail
program,
It was working well until recently. Then, in different occasion, the system
was rebooting (or crashing should I say) without error message or blue screen.
Some common situation when this occures are as follows:
-I scroll an IE window
-I scroll an e-mail
-I resize a column in Windows explorer
-I resize a column in Excel...

anyone could help me please?

JF

 

[Kevin]

Could be a video card or driver issue. Could be some kind of malware. If
you can manage to get into Device Manager, check the status of your
hardware, specifically the display adapter and video card. If you take your
mouse and just run it randomly around the desktop does the system lockup or
crash?

 

[Guest]

Hi Kevin,

I just "repaired" Xp at the moment and have some sort of stability.
However, looking at your question, YES, it was sometime crashing when
randomly running it over some Windows menu.
From the system device manager menu, I can't find any warning related to
some driver malfunction.

JF