Spontaneous Reboot

[Moemar]

I really have no idea what's going on. About every week or two, my computer randomly reboots. I still haven't figured out any connection to what i'm doing at the time, but it's happened twice while I was in IE. Any ideas?

Abit KR7A-RAID
AMD XP 1700+
Crucial 256MB PC2100
Seagate Barracuda IV 80gig
GeForce2 GTS 32MB
350W PSU
Windows XP

 

[NaGarin]

Windows XP has an option for auto rebooting upon system failure. Usually in the earlier versions of windows like win98/ME you would get a "bluescreen" saying that an error has ocurred and you would have to manually reboot your computer. This is what happens in XP but, they now reboot the computer for you right away. The "bluescreen" still appears but the computer will reboot so fast that you wont be able to see what it says, if you even notice it at all. You can, if you wish, remove this by unchecking the option by going to "system properties" (rightclick my computer and click properties is an easy way to do this) then look under the tab advanced, click the settings button for "start up and recovery". In the new window, looks for a checkbox in the section "failure" with the caption "automatically restart". Unchecking this will stop XP from automatically reboot your computer whenever your system fails allowing you too see the "bluescreen" along with the info on why your system failed.
This wont solve the problem to why your system have these failures but you might be able to figure out why, by reading the info provided on the "bluescreen" (it isnt very userfriendly and gives a whole lot of techie info that you would only understand would you be working with these kind of things, but its worth a shot).

If you cant solve the problem on your own, try posting the information you get from the bluescreen here and maybe someone can help you.


Hope this helps.

Good luck!

 

[SemperFi]

You can also check your event logs in the Administrative tools to get a little more info. Mine Blue screened then shut down yesterday. Upon reboot it sent Microsoft event notification and asked me for more info. I got the event log but it isn't too helpful to me.

Semper Fi

 

[Moemar]

Thanks guys, but I don't have the automatic reboot option on, and it still reboots without even showing the blue screen. As the tree said to the lumberjack: "I'm stumped."

 

[FoolishMcNasty]

I have had similar issues (My Thread in Operating Systems), haven't figured it out yet. But I would check Event Logs for error messages. I also found this, hope it might helps.

 

[hoihtah]

what sort of powersupply is that 350w?

check and see what the rating on that psu is at 3.3+5
and also what the voltage rating is at 5v.

your shut down...
it is heat related?
meaning... do you notice this happen when the weather is warm?

spontaneous reboot can be a result of many things.
i'd probably start with your powersupply.

 

[kmike75]

Does the reboot happen only when you are using IE? I had this problem with a gigabyte motherboard a few years ago and solved it by moving my pci modem to a different pci slot.