WinXP sys reboots without any warning

[TedM]

Hi,

I have a Windows XP PC that is running a Pentium 4 - 2.4 GHz CPU with 1GB
RAM on an ECS motherboard.

Once so often (too often for me) it decides to reboot without any
warning!!!! I looked at the event log to see if anything had been captured -
but I could not find anything with a time stamp close to the time it last
rebooted!!!

What could be causing this behaviour? Where can I get a log of what
happenned? What can I do to isolate this problem and find out what is
causing this problem?

Help - any help is appreciated!!!

Regards,

Ted M.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

If you don't see any error messages with the shutdown/restart, right click
on My Computer, select Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on
Settings under Startup and Recovery and disable 'Automatically restart'.
Next time your PC reboots, you should see a Blue Screen. Could you please
post the Stop Code from the BSOD? With that your problem could be narrowed
down.

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[TedM]

Thanks - I will do what you suggested and will post the Stop Code, next time
it happens.
Thanks again.
Ted M.

 

[TedM]

Hi,

I did as Will Denny suggested. I went to My Computer and disabled
'Automatically restart' ....
Then when the system rebooted without any warning or error message I
restarted the computer and went to the Microsoft - Events Viewer and then to
System and copied the following error message.

(Hope it provides the into that you (Will) had asked for.

Regards, Ted M........

The error message from System Event Viewer is as follows:
==============================================================
Event Type: Error

Event Source: System Error

Event Category: (102)

Event ID: 1003

Date: 10/5/2005

Time: 10:28:34 PM

User: N/A

Computer: ......................

Description:

Error code 1000000a, parameter1 86fb45bc, parameter2 00000002, parameter3
00000001, parameter4 804ec6ec.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E

0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er

0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code

0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 30 1000000

0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param

0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 38 36 eters 86

0030: 66 62 34 35 62 63 2c 20 fb45bc,

0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002

0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000

0048: 30 31 2c 20 38 30 34 65 01, 804e

0050: 63 36 65 63 c6ec

===========================================

Thanks for your help.

Ted M.

I then went to Control Panel >Adminstrative Tools > Events