Mysterious Windows XP restarts

[aceMan]

Hi Guys,<BR>I am a new user to XP so I am not sure why this problem..........<BR><BR>My computer automatically restsrts by itself while using it. It seems to happen while using the net. <BR><BR>I have disabled the restart on error option in the My Computer > Properties. But this still happens.<BR><BR>Pls help me guys<BR><BR>My system<BR><BR>P 3 1.0B GHz<BR>256MB RAM<BR>Onboard Sound & Video.<BR><BR>Thx Guys<BR>aceMan

[Colin]

Hey aceMan, welcome to PCStats! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>Hmm, that's an odd problem you're having. When did that start happening? Was it after you installed a piece of software/hardware? Did you perhaps tweak your system?<BR><BR>How old is this computer?

[Juan]

This happened to me a couple times and I did find out way. I had a bad fan on my heatsink. Replaced the fan and the restarts never occured again!!!

[Hansaman]

Yep, that will do it!!<BR><BR>Glad it all worked out and was an easy fix!<BR><BR>H.

[aceMan]

HI Guys,<BR>I bought this system a year and half ago. Its still in good condition, i had never had trouble in win2000.<BR><BR>I cant really think of any software that I installed tht give problem or that i have installed prevoius to this problem.<BR><BR>Nothing has happened so far since i have posted, I will post again if the error occurs again.<BR><BR>About the fan! Maybe I should change mine. Lets see how it goes<BR>Thx

[Colin]

aceMan so you've gotten these spondtanious reboots right after you installed WinXP? <br><br><< <i>Nothing has happened so far since i have posted, I will post again if the error occurs again. </i> >><br><br>Well that's good... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Juan]

Also something that might cause it is if you are trying to make a piece of memory run with a lower Cas Lat than it says it is. With PC2100 I have never seen this problem but when I stuck my PC2700 Kingston stick in restarts happend all the time. The reason being is before the 2700 I had my Cas at 2 but the 2700 would only handle 2.5 and so I had to turn Cas back to 2.5 and that stoped restarts as well. Really I would think this would be your problem because you wouldn't get past the Windows startup screen. I am glad to hear everything is working for you now and enjoy XP!!!

[consilium]

guys this is !!!NOT!!! a hardware problem.... I have also had this problem in XP atleast 3 or 4 times, they have all been after i installed XP and it used to keep restarting, again typicaly while i was using the net. Me and my friend Bios have also experienced these spontaneous restarts and have concluded it is NOT down to hardware.<BR> The problem strangely sorted its self out i havnt had a fresh install of XP for about 2 months now, and it hasnt done it since, but i was talking to a tech once and he gave me a link to a site that explained why it was doing it ive lost the link <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"> but i know it will sort its self out soon. If i find out any more info ill post it, sorry at the moment i honestly cant remember all i know is its a software problem/os problem NOT a hardware problem.<BR><BR>Thanks, Cons