Rebooting

Can you boot into Safe Mode? If so, is it stable, or does it also BSOD?

Safe Mode, no problems. I have even disabled everything in startup using MSCONFIG. Still does it.

If you have ruled out virus/spyware/adware...etc. then it might be a driver/hardware issue. While in safe mode check device manager and make sure you dont have some "ghosted" devices. If you see duplicates or more, try removing all that you see and reinstall(make sure you have drivers to reinstall with). It could be the hardware itself going bad or may be bad already. If reloading drivers doesnt help, try swapping video card, sound card, NIC, to see if it could be that.

Typical trouble shooting...strip PC down to bare essentials such as the Video, memory, CPU, hard drive, mouse and keyboard. Take other non essentials out or disable them in BIOS if they are embedded to the motherboard.

hth

Jason

I should have told you that this is a laptop. I hove not total ruled out spyware.

Do you get any BIOS beeps when starting it? As fast as it is rebooting either the motherboard has sustained damage or your powersupply is/has gone bad.

Disable Restart on Error (F8, same as Safe Mode) and see if there is an error message displayed. If so, it should give you, and us, a clue as to what is causing problem.

Dalton

Have come accross this problem about 30+ times over the past 4-5 weeks. Hav'nt got an answer as yet but, if you press f2 or whatever to access the Bios, don,t alter anything just go to exit on the menu, let the system restart. A lot of feedback i have had is, peoples monitors seem to DEGAUSSE on start up when they incur this problem.

How old is the laptop? Is it crashing while connected to a power source or while on battery power? Do you have a spare battery to try? Beep sequences mentioned above is a good clue to hardware issues. Does the PC stay up if you boot from a diskette or CD?

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will give it another shot tomorrow. Had to get away from it for awhile.

If I don't connect it to the network, no problems. Same with safe mode, no problems. Is looks like some kind of spyware or adware has been installed. After I clean everything and connect it to the network, it is fine for awhile and then, like magic, here comes the pop ups. And then the BSOD. I disabled everything starting up using MSCONFIG.

Worked fine for awhile and then, here we go again.
Dang thing is about to drive me nuts.

There are no beep codes and the screen doesn't stay up long enough to see the error.

I have to be over looking something.

I am going to go ahead and close this and award the point. If anyone comes up with an idea, please contact me at raharr@scdjj.net.

Thanks a bunch.
Russell

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