Hi
I have a 1800 Athlon with 80gb hdd and 512 ram.
I have installed the new 80 gb hdd because the 20gb i had was doing the same and I thought it was the drive that wa failing.
The previous drive had FAT32 this one has NTFS.I have two usb ports and have a printer on one and a four port usb hub on the other.
fitted to this is a second printer/scanner,a palm device, and a braodband modem SAGEM.
I swithch on and everything goes ok till I get to the desktop and while place items on it the unit will just reboot and go throught the process again, giving a message 'your computer has recovered from a serious problem' it then wants to send the message. Most times things are then ok.Till the next time I reboot or shut-down and re start.
Willing to accept all help.

Sorry so long winded
George

hey George;

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.

Post back the error messages. You can also search your Event Viewer for errors that corespond to the time of boot/ reboot.

thanks
done all BUT it is still doing this rebooting. Error reports came back that a device driver was problem. so upgrade drivers and still happening.
could it be the power supply?

Can you get into Safe Mode?

Can you post the exact error message?

Does it resemble this:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Stop 0X000000D1(0X00000004,0X00000002,0X00000000,0X804F 1A9E) ?

haven't tried either.

It may sound daft but I have taken the mains line from the PC out of an extension block and put into the mains direct.
( don't want to say this but it seems to have stopped it rebooting)

will come back if it happens

thanks for the help

George

Glad to try to help.

Sometimes that unplugging and plugging sorts stuff out.

As you thought, it might say something about the power supply.

Good work on your part!

Hope it holds up for ya