Computer Restarts Itself - Comments Page 10

I had to remove Sopcast which is a P2P download so I can watch football & baseball games. My computer kept resetting and the cpu got hot. After removing Sopcast I haven't had any problems.

Hi bob. My computer of 1yr, randomly restart itself. I alerady reformat the com, currently using win xp sp2. Added an additional ram of 512,total 1GB ram now. Com reboot mostly during my game play like CS, FIFA07, or even watching video online I could get reboot too. using geforce 5200.

When I start the computer it load 10 seconds and then a black screen appears for 5 seconds and then it restart it self . Please help me , reply to me on my e-mail , I really need some help . Thanks .

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like your boot record is damaged. If you can boot to SAFE MODE, you can try the FIXMBR or FIXBOOT commands. See http://askbobrankin.com/hard_drive_recovery.html

This is a new comp... Core2Duo 2.67GHz, Intel Mobo DG33FB, Kingston 1GB DDR2, Seagate 160GB SATA. Runs XP-SP2. Not used for any gaming. Just simple MSoffice/tally, email/chat/orkut and downloading movies using utorrent. No other download utilities. Web browser IE6. A/V Norton-no firewall.

First time it started restarting, it wud do it after exactly 1 hour! Continued this for 1 full day. Then worked fine for several weeks. No other paatern for restart. I could be doing anything. May or may not be connected to the internet. But nowadays, there isnt even that ONE-HOUR pattern. It has become totally random. I could work on it without any prb for days! And then suddenly it wud restart! Weird.

Synchronize time with internet is unchked. Prc temp & Mobo temp: avg 45C. SystemRestore/AutoUpdates/RemoteDesktop all OFF. Automatic restart is currently on coz I wanna try to figure out whts causing this. Event viewer log also doesnt gv any pattern at the times it restarts.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I agree these problems are frustrating, but you have to start swapping out components (RAM, HD, fans, etc.) until you find the cause.

Here's a weird one. I was running Windows 2000 and most of the time (~95%) I logged on to Windows Live Mail my computer would just restart. The old version of hotmail worked fine. It's the new version "Windows Live Mai" that was causing me fits.

It was annoying but I put up with it for a while. Recently I installed a new hard drive and upgraded to Windows XP hoping that the problem would go away. To my surprise the problem was still there...log on to Windows Live Mail...restart. Any other suggestions? I find it weird that it happens only when I am opening Windows Live Mail.

I'm gonna check what is going on with the PC temperature and see that the fan is working adequately and I will check that the RAM is okay but I don't know that either of these is the real issue. It only happens with Windows Live Mail!

EDITOR'S NOTE: One other person reported to me that something similar happened after upgrading from Hotmail to Windows Live Mail. Can you go back to Hotmail?

Hi Bob...Al again. I think the old version of hotmail no longer works. I think it has all gone to Live Mail.

Thanks for the help Bob. I think I may have made some headway into finding the cause of the problem and a solution that has worked so far! Really simple actually and I'm almost embarrassed to say that I never thought of it....I switched to Firefox....Logged on to Windows Live Mail about a dozen times so far and it hasn't restarted on me yet!

This leads me to conclude that the problem is not my PC but it was something in the Internet Explorer Browser. Incidentally this problem was occurring when I was running IE 6 and IE 7. I installed IE 7 hoping the problem would go away but it obviously didn't. So far Firefox is working out really well.

Have a problem with my new pc where it restarts itself randomly, if i try and play a 3d game it will restart almost immidiatly.

Tried the 3 suggestions on top with no success, tried a new power suplly, downloaded the latest drivers, to no avail.

Any suggestions?

HELP! my pc is driving me nuts! everytime i load up a disk in my dvd rom,my pc shut itself and i noticed that the green light on my pc is still lit...then i tried to remove the dvd rom my pc cant boot up,i tried replacing the dvd rom, it wont boot...now i connected again the old dvd rom my pc boots up again, but i cant use my dvd rom because every time it loads the pc shuts itself...ooohhh god.. i dont know what to do...pls help me!

I can't believe that the original article doesn't at least mention the infamous BAD CAPACITOR problem that plagued many motherboards manufactured a few years ago. see: http://badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=5

In my experience as a computer hardware technician, I've found that bad caps are BY FAR the most common culprit behind a random/spontaneous reboot problem. The second-most common reason is a faulty power supply - also not mentioned in the original article.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks for mentioning bad capacitors. They often get lumped in the "bad motherboard" category. I've updated the article with a summary of what people should look for when diagnosing the restart problem.