Re: Windows XP Constantly Rebooting

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:56:26 +0100

Julie wrote:

>I've already turned off the automatic restart in Control Panel- have not received a blue screen. No errors have been written to the system log either. It also reboots when I try to run a program from CD. I installed XP on a spare hard drive- same problem. I'm pretty much down to CPU/motherboard. I was hoping for another possibility.

This sounds like hardware simply cutting off - check on fan as first
thing. I had a friend's machine do something similar which turned out
to be a loose bit of wire jiggling and shorting the reset button
connection on the motherboard. . . 

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.DEL8.org (remove the DEL8 bit)