Computer Restarts Itself - Comments Page 11

Thanks for addressing this issue & updating the article in such a timely fashion. I guess that's one reason why your site & newsletter are among the best computer help resources anywhere - I've enjoyed them both for years.

My problem is different: when I shut down the computer, it restarts itself. To completely turn it off, I need to catch it when it does the first beep at boot-up and hold the power button in until it turns itself off. I have been all over the settings in Win XP and the CMOS but can not find where this restart thing is specified.

Hi my toshiba laptop shuts doen by itself sometimes and restarts automatically. I have the error below. It seems that when take the power out it works normally.
PLEASE HELP

BCCode : 100000d1 BCP1 : 02F25000 BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 02F25000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1

As the rest of these folks my comp. restarts itself also. It has been doing it for around a month or 2. I have completly reformatted the computer complete wipe of the hard drive brand new win xp installed. So im pretty sure it's not software problems. I went and bought a brand new gig stick of ram to replace the old one so i don't think thats the problem. I have done the do not restart my system function. I have a Speed fan test and a DTemp program all of the speeds and temperatures are green checked. It has never given me a blue screen just automatically restarts. it mainly does it when i go to play WOW Conquer Online or Diablo 2. But it still does it when i go to watch a Video and sometimes when im just chatting on aim. I was thinking on trying a new power supply since it's cheap but if you think it is probally something else instead of the power supply i would love to hear it. Thanks for your help.

My comp is rebooting on its own after every 10-45 minutes WITHOUT the blue screen of death....It happens both on windows xp and 98 [i have dual boot] but it will doesnt happen on MS DOS Mode on windows 98....Plz help

EDITOR'S NOTE: What have you tried to diagnose the problem? There any many helpful suggestions above.

Hi, I've recently upgraded from 1 gig/1 stick single channel ddr2-533 to 2gig/2sticks dual channel ddr2-800 on a motherboard with dual channel ddr2-533. Now my computer restarts while running application that require heavy cpu usage (Usually hash-checking on a bittorrent client). I've noticed that my cpu temperature is high just before it restarts. After every subsequent boot-up, the automatic restart happens at shorter and short intervals even when no heavy applications are running.
I've run a standard memory diagnostic on the new sticks and it turned up nothing. I have yet to find time to run a full diagnostic and neither have I tested each stick individually (I assumed, before reading this article, that both were fine because of the diagnostic).
My question is this: Is it possible that upgrading to 2 gigs and 2 sticks is causing my cpu to overheat? My 3 ghz pentium D also seems to be naturally hot, running at just under 60 degrees when idle.

EDITOR'S NOTE: That's going to be hard to diagnose. Can you run with just ONE of the new RAM sticks?

i have the same problem do i have to download the thing that says speed fan . if i do how do you do it?????

EDITOR'S NOTE: No, you don't have to. It's just a diagnostic tool. Click the Speedfan link for more info on it.

I tryed to download world of warcraft the game and when i download it (it dosent complete the download)it restarts and i used every browser firefox at&t internet explorer need help

When I open the image or video files, the system will automatically restartig...

I also had random restarts, it turned out that problem was caused by bad capacitors in power supply unit. It's replaced now and system seems to be stable.