XP randomly restarts on me

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From: dglock (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:40:11 -0700

this could be either virus related or hardware.
is this a desktop or laptop?
this type of behavior is many time caused by excess heat.
are all your fans running?
a faulty ram module will also cause the computer to
reboot.
might also be the drivers for you graphics card are not
right or corrupt.
you said you just formated,did you install the
motherboard drivers from the cd?
some times the generic drivers that windows uses are not
the best for that brand of hardware.
don

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm experiencing these unexplained crashes in XP, not
the
>kind of crash where you get to close the frozen program
>and keep working...but the kind of crash in which I'm
>minding my own business and the machine just randomly
>restarts. It's only happened a handful of times, but so
>far the trend seems to be that it occurs while opening a
>file (e.g. Word doc) or copying/moving files between my
HD
>and external backup drive.
>
>Then I get the blue screen during bootup, asking me to
>check the file system on my C drive for errors. For
>instance, when it happened earlier today, I got this
>prompt:
>
>For the file "C:/.../Microsoft Office/Recent/<<Word file
I
>was using when it crashed>>.LNK", first allocation unit
is
>not valid--the entry will be truncated. I suppose this
>could just be an aftereffect of the crash...
>
>I just formatted my hard drive two days ago, so it's not
>like there should be a ton of baggage in the file system
>which would make the machine unstable (or should it?).
>
>Any insight?
>Thanks!
>Paul
>.
>

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