My PC has been suffering from this mysterious auto reboot problem for many months. It just sometimes decided to re-boot for fun. No signs. It happens very often (every other day, or every couple of days), once it happened in one day, it will happen again and again that day. Some times, my PC seems have good mood so it will work for many days without giving me trouble. At the first, I thought about the heat (I am using AMD with a CPU fan), I opened the case, use a fan, use a monitor to check temperature. The temp stays around 50-55.. However, it didn't really stop the re-booting... I can't tell if it is better..maybe..

My PC is guarded by zone lab firewall and antivir for virus.. doesn't seem to have virus.. this re-boot thing even happen just after I re-install my entire system...

Please help..
Frankie

What is your Operating System?

What is the make & model of the computer?

If XP change this setting:

rt. click My Computer then click Properties then Advanced then Startup and Recovery Settings then unclick Automatically restart

And post the error messages of the next bad shutdown.

Also: look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with a crash.


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jephree,

Thanks so much for the help! Yes, i am running XP. Follow your instruction, i unchecked the auto-restart options. Let's see how it works and what have been causing the system failure..

Thanks again,
Frankie