Re: Automatic/Unexpected Restart

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Hi,

First thing is: Is the system Power Management set to shut down after a
specific time frame? Check both the BIOS PM settings and the Windows PM
settings. What are they?

What you describe is not a typical random restart due to overheating
(usually that does not step through the shutdown sequence, but rather
suddenly goes to the POST screen from a normal running state). I suspect you
may have PM settings set to shut the system down, but it is not completing
properly and is restarting instead. A phenomena I've seen a few times, but
haven't really been able to pinpoint the cause.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"The Mocks" <The Mocks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:37382EA0-D61E-4233-B910-3A0043FE84C1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This may not turn out to be anything big, but it seems strange enough.
> Our
> computer is currently running Windows XP Pro. We left the computer
> running
> while we were at work, from about 5 pm. I got home at about 2 am, and the
> computer was in the screensaver mode. I did not touch it, and went to do
> other things. At about 3 am, I heard the familiar sound of the computer
> shutting down. Low and behold it was; and it restarted on its own. I've
> done a little researching, but not much, and the few situations with
> random
> restarts did not seem to fit our situation very closely. We did just
> install
> two new sticks of RAM (2GB total), and added another HDD. I've never
> heard
> of windows doings like this though.
>
> I have yet to do a virus scan, though I'm hoping that it is not, and doubt
> that it is a virus. Beyond viruses (blech), any ideas out there on what
> might have caused the computer to randomly restart? This really has me
> baffled.


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