Re: System Restarts Sporadically

From: jazz (aprilo9_at_hotmail.com.nospam)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:51:12 -0500

 goto the system properties and then to the advanced tab, now goto the
startup option and uncheck the automaticaly restart for error box. Now
instead of rebooting, you should get an error message that would allow you
to dig deeper into the problem. Reasons for rebooting that i have found
usually relate to any driver related errors wich could point to hardware
problems and a bad power suply. I have also seen usb devices cause this
reboot with no error log in the event viewer.

If you not getting an error after turning the automatice restart off and it
still reboots, then disconect all the periphials (printer/scanner and such)
and reconect them one at a time untill while looking for a reboot.
good luck with it. random reboots can be tricky to trouble shoot.

"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.