Spontaneous Automatic Computer Reboots

ZiRu$ · Post by **ZiRu$** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:29 pm

I've been having this problem for a while now and its REALLY getting on my nerves.

Every once in a while when I'm doing something my computer automatically reboots itself. I could be listening to music, watching a video, scanning a image, editing HTML, surfing the net etc. It's happened while doing anything imaginable.....so that was about 3 months ago and i finally did a clean format (FDisk and all) about a month ago but the problem never went away. So I assume this is a hardware problem but i don't know what could be wrong. Please help!! It happens around 5 times a day. It's already happened about 8 times already today.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:03 pm

I have had that problem before and in my case it has always turned out to be ram gone bad. Not saying that is all it can be just that it has always been bad ram for me. Power supply could also be causing this and is something to look at. If you have two or more sticks or ram installed I would try pulling them and running with one at a time as a starting spot.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:07 pm

Go to your System Properties (Right click My Computer and select Properties or go through the Control Panel). Then select the Advanced tab and click the Settings button under the Startup and Recovery section. Uncheck Automatically Reboot and see if it is a BSOD causing the reboot. If it is, copy down the information and post it here. It would help us be able to figure out what could be wrong.

wpublic · Post by **wpublic** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:28 pm

have you ever tried overclocking this system, or changing the cpu? if the suggestions above do not work, try going into bios and "load optimized defaults"

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:30 pm

Do what Busby recommends. Windows will auto reboot during a fatal error by default, but when it does that it also revents you from seeing the error. By disabling auto reboot you may see an error message that gives you some clue.

You may have an IRQ Channel sharing problem. This is not an IRQ conflict and I explain it in detail here:
http://soldcentralfl.com/quakecoop/glfaq5.htm#5_9

It's not all that common anymore unless you have a Sound Blaster Live or an add-on SCSI card.

RAM and PSU problems are next biggest causes of problems like these.

ZiRu$ · Post by **ZiRu$** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:13 am

Well i feel stupid, i opened up my case and touched my processor heat sink and burned my fingers. So i turned up the fan speed (I use a Volcano 11) and that was 2 days ago, so far no automatic restarts. Only time will tell if that was the only problem though.

Thanks for all your input!