PC reboots randomly. What could be the problem?

aankh · 11-11-2004, 03:26 AM

Running a win2k machine which gets hiccups frequently: it reboots on its own for no reason. Does not seem to be related to any specific programs that I might be running, or any specific combinations of programs.

I have no spyware...clean with Ad-aware and Spybot. No viruses either.

Beginning to think it might be a hardware issue, but no clue what. Doubt it's related to overheating because I have 2 fans sitting in my CPU, and anyway, my setup is a fairly wimpy one.

Anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong?

PS: Not very PC-literate, so be gentle, please.

Laffctx · 11-11-2004, 06:53 AM

could be your power supply is starting to go...........power supplys are fairly cheap ...........try hooking another one up to it and see if that cures it.

good luck,

laffctx

SuperSparks · 11-11-2004, 07:19 PM

Go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Startup & Recovery>Settings and uncheck "Automatically restart". The next time it happens you'll get a Stop error, which is much easier to troubleshoot.

big mike · 11-15-2004, 12:39 PM

does anybody in here have a ps2 with gta San andreas because I having problems with the disk

wenwen · 11-28-2004, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperSparks

Go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Startup & Recovery>Settings and uncheck "Automatically restart". The next time it happens you'll get a Stop error, which is much easier to troubleshoot.

if i disabled that option will it do any harm in future
coz by default the option is enabled.

11-11-2004, 03:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
aankh Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1 OS: win2k	PC reboots randomly. What could be the problem? Running a win2k machine which gets hiccups frequently: it reboots on its own for no reason. Does not seem to be related to any specific programs that I might be running, or any specific combinations of programs. I have no spyware...clean with Ad-aware and Spybot. No viruses either. Beginning to think it might be a hardware issue, but no clue what. Doubt it's related to overheating because I have 2 fans sitting in my CPU, and anyway, my setup is a fairly wimpy one. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong? PS: Not very PC-literate, so be gentle, please.

11-11-2004, 07:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
SuperSparks Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Friern Barnet, London, England Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP Pro & Windows 2000 Pro	Go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Startup & Recovery>Settings and uncheck "Automatically restart". The next time it happens you'll get a Stop error, which is much easier to troubleshoot. __________________ Nick. Microsoft MVP {Windows - Shell / User} I'm also here

11-15-2004, 12:39 PM	#4 (permalink)
big mike Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1 OS: win2000/	disk trouble does anybody in here have a ps2 with gta San andreas because I having problems with the disk

11-11-2004, 06:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
Laffctx Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 224 OS: Win2K & Win98SE	could be your power supply is starting to go...........power supplys are fairly cheap ...........try hooking another one up to it and see if that cures it. good luck, laffctx