XP is messin' with me..........

[Corrine]

I just installed xp home edition on my pc. I was playing
games on yahoo, and my pc just decides on its own to
reboot. This has happened 3 times already, and is pissing
me off. Does anyone know why this is happening?

 

[dev]

Corrine said:

I just installed xp home edition on my pc. I was playing
games on yahoo, and my pc just decides on its own to
reboot. This has happened 3 times already, and is pissing
me off. Does anyone know why this is happening?

To see the error message, UNcheck "auto restart", under Control
Panel|SYSTEM|ADVANCED|START UP AND RECOVERY.

Then post details of the error here.

 

[davetest]

I just installed xp home edition on my pc. I was playing
games on yahoo, and my pc just decides on its own to
reboot. This has happened 3 times already, and is pissing
me off. Does anyone know why this is happening?

You more than likely experienced a STOP condition, and the default
action is to immediately reboot.
Look in the event viewer to find out what the STOP code is,
then you can start to narrow it down.
Dave

 

[Joe Unix]

Sounds like the Blaster worm to me...you have any A/V
software on your PC?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I just installed xp home edition on my pc. I was playing
games on yahoo, and my pc just decides on its own to
reboot. This has happened 3 times already, and is pissing
me off. Does anyone know why this is happening?
.

Sounds like the blaster virus.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w3
2.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

there's a link to remove the virus.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?SunnyB=A9?=]

I just installed xp home edition on my pc. I was playing
games on yahoo, and my pc just decides on its own to
reboot. This has happened 3 times already, and is pissing
me off. Does anyone know why this is happening?

While you were playing these games, were you trying to cheat?
Sounds like you got caught cheating and it booted you. <g>

Play nice now.

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