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by ahughes

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Have Win XP Prof installed. Have two machines that will "Just reboot themself" while sitting at the Desktop or while on the internet. There is no amount of time system is being used or what software being used. The computer will just up and reboot. I have changed the power supply, still have same problem. This random rebooting seems to be happening with a lot of people running Win XP. Any solutions?

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by timwalsh

I had an almost identical problem on a brand new Dell.
One of the troubleshooting steps I had to go through with Dell Tech support involved Roxio CD-Creator 5.0. They had me uninstall and then re-install the software. Dell has somthing written inits Tech Support database that says there is a known issue between XP and CD-Creator.

Of course my problem did end up being a power supply problem.

If you are running CD-Creator, you might want to try uninstalling the software to see if the problem goeas away.

by thechas

Do you have the XP updates installed for the OS, hardware, and applications?

The next step would be to go through the XP shutdown trouble shooting steps outlined at www.aumha.org

I would also look into a hardware problem. As Tim suggested, you could have weak power supplies, or over-heating CPUs.

I had a MB that was giving me fits for weeks, turned out it had bad pins in the AGP port.

Make sure that all connectors, cards, and RAM modules are fully seated.

Chas

by ahughes

I have tried just about everything that was suggested. I will, however, use the trouble shooting steps in Aumha.org. Thanks

by jfjester

is the cooling fan working properly and up to the correct speed for the processor that you have on the board.
Sometimes if a system get to warm it will shut down.

You may want to check the output of the fan-

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