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December 7, 2001 at 6:36 pm #2130795

WinXP self reboot

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by big nath · about 20 years, 12 months ago

I’ve been running WinXP Pro for about 2 weeks now, and usually once at day, for no particular reason, the pc will reboot itself, usually when i click on something (i.e hyperlink, OK box) then works fine. Sometimes movement of the mouse has caused a reboot. Any ideas as to why this would be happening? All drivers are XP certified.

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- December 7, 2001 at 11:15 pm #3546632
  
  WinXP self reboot
  
  by dklippert · about 20 years, 12 months ago
  
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  Removing Direct CD has been known to fix this problem.
  
  If you right click My Computer/Properties/Advanced Tab/Startup and Recovery Settings and then uncheck Restart on failure(Automatically Restart on 2600), a screen will come up with error messages.
  Here is a site that has more information:
  
  http://66.39.115.252/a/shtdwnxp.htm
  
  (There are no spaces in the URL)
  - December 9, 2001 at 4:52 pm #3548518
    
    WinXP self reboot
    
    by big nath · about 20 years, 12 months ago
    
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    Thanks for the help, the pc now doesn’t reboot unexpectedly, although I am still having problems. It now brings up the details of what happened on new look BSOD, but still renders the pc useless, with me needing to physically press the reset button for it to do anything.
    
    *sigh* I smell a format…
- December 9, 2001 at 4:52 pm #3548517
  
  WinXP self reboot
  
  by big nath · about 20 years, 12 months ago
  
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