Re: System Restarts Sporadically

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/16/05


Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:47:50 -0500

Hi,

The "bug" may be a bit of failing hardware. No software solution will cure
this if this is the case. Is there any error message (blue screen)? Have you
checked the event viewer for clues? Are you set to create a memory dump on
system failure? Does it just suddenly restart? Or does it go through any
sequence first?

Frankly, from what I've read from you so far, this does not sound
viral-related.

-- 
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
"mick0311" <mick0311@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:2283167A-7178-4CD3-AE4C-3257396FED61@microsoft.com...
> No specific time or event...System will just restart itself.  The techs 
> (?)
> in India were no help at all (as usual).  Someone suggested that a virus
> could be causing the restarts.  I update & run Trend Micro every day & the
> scan is almost always
> clean.  If it does detect a virus, it automatically puts it in quarantine.
>  Is there some weird virus active that would cause the system to restart 
> at
> any given time?  Is there any detection and removal routines available for
> this kind of bug?    Thank you, and hope someone can help with this.  It 
> gets
> real old, real fast.
> -- 
> mickc. 


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