Help! My computer keeps restarting on its own!

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From: Crystal (cpare1_at_towson.edu)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:55:38 -0800

Ever since February 11, 2004, I have had this issue where
my computer has constantly been restarting itself for no
apparent reason! I am currently running Windows XP SP1
Home Edition on a Gateway 500X PC, with 512 MB RAM, 2.6
GHz P4 processor, and a 160 GB hard drive. I came back to
my room that day after attending a course to find that my
computer had restarted itself. I at first thought nothing
of it and tried to log back into my Desktop, but not long
after I logged back in, the system restarted itself again!
I then kept on trying to get back into the Desktop, and
sooner or later the computer ended up restarting itself! I
also got these error messages that said that Windows had
experience a severe error, and it asked me to send an
error report, which I did. It said that it "may" be caused
by a device driver problem, but I looked in the Device
Manager and everything seemed to be working fine. I knew
that prior to that I had reinstalled my HP Deskjet 5650
printer and also Windows Update, so I uninstalled my
printer first since I thought I chose the wrong driver,
but that did not seem to solve the problem. After the
uninstallation of the printer, it again kept restarting! I
then thought maybe it was the recent download of Windows
Update, so I did a System Restore to an earlier time
before I downloaded the new updates, and at first I
thought it solved the issue, but apparently not....so I
called Gateway, and they said it could have been Spyware,
so I downloaded programs to remove most of the spyware,
and at first it seemed to work, but just today I shut down
my computer, and when I tried to log back on it started
rebooting again! If any of you can help me figure out what
may be causing the problem or know exactly what causes the
issue, well any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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