hope someone can help. i will be on my computer and it will restart about every 30 minutes. i dont know what else to do. i have done a virus scan, adaware, dumped old files, ran scandisk.......can anyone help? greatly appreciated

is there an option to stop auto restarts? (sorry I am only familiar w/ 2k & xp)

in xp there is :

You can turn off the feature that instructs XP to autostart on system
failure. Right click on My Computer and select Properties->Advanced
Tab->Startup & Recovery section->Settings button->uncheck "Automatically
restart" Apply. This will give you a blue screen with info on it and you
will have to manually restart the computer. The info might give you an idea
whether or not the problem is hardware or software related.

Also check your Event Viewer: Start > Run > eventvwr.msc

Look for red X errors that coincide with a shut down.

Need to get error messages

Kewl..... I was searching for that for ages for my daughter's pc......