Window XP Home Keeps Crashing

[Gary]

I leave my computer on every night. When I go to it in the AM it has
rebooted on its own. I get an error message saying that it has recovered
from a serious error. Anyone have an idea how to fix the opporating system
short of a clean install. Running XP home with service pack 2.

 

[David B.]

Look in event viewer and post back with the exact error in the log, there is
no way we can even begin to guess without more info, other than to say you
have a hardware or software problem.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I leave my computer on every night. When I go to it in the AM it has
rebooted on its own. I get an error message saying that it has recovered
from a serious error. Anyone have an idea how to fix the opporating system
short of a clean install. Running XP home with service pack 2.

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.