My computer's done a lot of weird things in the time I've had it. But now it's taken up the habit of rebooting by itself. It's most annoying. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing it? It's done it like 5 times in the last three days, and three of those in the last ten minutes.
Computer rebooting by itself
- Thread starter jadedskies
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If you're running Win2K, then chances are it performed a system failure, and you have it setup to automatically reboot instead of just sitting at a BSOD. To see how you have it setup, right click on "My Computer" goto Properties / ADVANCED tab and select Startup and Recovery. Then under the System Failure tab, see if you have 'automaticaly reboot' selected. If you have Write an event to the system log enabled, then you can see what the cause was by examining the log.
Of course it might also be a loose power supply wire. While not that likely, it has happened to my friend.
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Of course it might also be a loose power supply wire. While not that likely, it has happened to my friend.
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"That which does not kill you, makes you wish it did."
"We the willing, lead by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible. We have done so much, with so little for so long, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."
Yeah, random rebooting usually is a power issue. It might be that the connection to the power supply is loose, the power supply might be overloaded, or you're getting surges or dips from the power coming into the house.
If you're running NT or Win2k, like BRiT suggested, it could just be that you're getting BSOD's and the systems set to automatically reboot. Sometimes, the blue screen itself is only up for a brief moment before the system reboots.
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If you're running NT or Win2k, like BRiT suggested, it could just be that you're getting BSOD's and the systems set to automatically reboot. Sometimes, the blue screen itself is only up for a brief moment before the system reboots.
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I'm running Windows 98, so it must be the power issues.
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