[reiepl]

Anyone can help me out with this:

My pc auto reboots when I just switched it for a while....
I did not open any application so it's kinda funny.

[Vetritus03]

you're not giving us much to go on. random reboots... or reboots that just occur out of the blue make me think virus. of course it could be any number of things. bad power supply... bad motherboard. bad power management drivers. is this NT? if so, you can check the error logs. if it is 9x you can try running it in safe mode for a while and see if it occurs then. need more details.
how often does this happen.
how long after you turn your computer on does it reboot?
can you be working on it actively and it reboots?
is it only when you leave it alone for periods that it reboots?
what OS?
how long has this been going on?
what's the last hardware/software you installed no matter how petty?
can you reliably reproduce the problem or is it TOTALLY random?

stuff like that.

[iamcenz]

Vetritus03, on Mar 20 2003, 06:42 AM, said:

you're not giving us much to go on. random reboots... or reboots that just occur out of the blue make me think virus. of course it could be any number of things. bad power supply... bad motherboard. bad power management drivers. is this NT? if so, you can check the error logs. if it is 9x you can try running it in safe mode for a while and see if it occurs then. need more details.
how often does this happen.
how long after you turn your computer on does it reboot?
can you be working on it actively and it reboots?
is it only when you leave it alone for periods that it reboots?
what OS?
how long has this been going on?
what's the last hardware/software you installed no matter how petty?
can you reliably reproduce the problem or is it TOTALLY random?

stuff like that.

yes it right, that was the most vague question i think i have ever seen on this board. random reboots can also be cause by the machine over heating, if your board has mobo and cpu senors go into the bios and check the heat on it.

[Trakker]

i'm not giving a solution, but i once had those spontaneous reboots, but i just got a new mobo&CPU and it stopped.

(not saying that'll fix your problem, only do that if nothing else works)

[iamcenz]

oh it can also be bad ram

[Trakker]

i don't think your computer would boot off bad ram would it?

[iamcenz]

sure it will. i 512 chip on my machine was bad, it was causing BSOD and then restarted my machine.

[Cookie Mobster]

If you are using windows xp, go to control panel->system->error reporting (i think, on 98 now, I can check) and reinable the display of stop errors, it will just reboot automaticly without them enabled...

I would bet it is a driver issue, microsoft tech site is a good placxe to find out what the stop error means.

[Vetritus03]

actually the path is similar in 2k as well. from System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery (choose settings) -> under System Failure un-check Automatically Restart.

[Cookie Mobster]

Vetritus03, on Mar 21 2003, 01:01 AM, said:

actually the path is similar in 2k as well. from System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery (choose settings) -> under System Failure un-check Automatically Restart.

Thanks, that has to be the worst windows setting ever.

[Vetritus03]

of course if you have access to the error logs its not so bad. the most common fix to STOP errors is to simply reboot. it might be hard when really trying to t-shoot, but the auto reboot gets you back to work faster in general.