Mysterious reboot

[SanDiegoPC]

My computer runs great. Lately though it's been crashing/restarting in the middle of the night. I'll wake up & see that it's restarted - and firefox always asks if it should restore the previous session so that confirms my suspiciouns

I have no other problems with the machine...see my sig for the build. I leave it on 24/7/365 and AVG 8.5 is set to scan at 2AM. I wonder if AVG is causing these reboots? The scan logs don't indicate any problems though. There's nothing in the scan log to indicate that a scan has been aborted or crashed.

Suggestions appreciated

 

[mechBgon]

See if the Windows event log has anything. Right-click My Computer on the Start menu, choose Manage, and the Event Viewer is in the list on the left.

Or, fire off AVG's scan at some other time and see if it results in a crash.

 

[Crusty]

Are you sure it's just not rebooting after automatic updates?

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
See if the Windows event log has anything. Right-click My Computer on the Start menu, choose Manage, and the Event Viewer is in the list on the left.

Or, fire off AVG's scan at some other time and see if it results in a crash.

Here's what it says:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: NetBT
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4319
Date: 6/14/2009
Time: 4:03:46 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SDPC
Description:
A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP network. The IP address of the machine that sent the message is in the data. Use nbtstat -n in a command window to see which name is in the Conflict state.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 58 00 ......X.
0008: 00 00 00 00 df 10 00 c0 ....ß..À
0010: 05 01 00 00 46 01 a8 c0 ....F.¨À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
-------------------------------------------------------

There is no other machine on the network with this name. Why does it think there is?

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Originally posted by: Crusty
Are you sure it's just not rebooting after automatic updates?

No, that's not it - the auto update in Windows has always been off.

 

[0roo0roo]

leaving a gaming machine on 24/7 is a waste of power