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My computer at work (Windows desktop running XP) has developed a cute little habit. About four times over the last two or three days, it's spontaneously restarted. No warning, no discenible pattern to when it does this that I can tell (so far.) I've run norton anti-virus, I've defragged my drives, I've run chkdsk and found no problems. I'm not kicking the restart button and I secured the power cord.

Any advice?

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Have you felt the case--any weird heat or vibrations? The power supply overheating idea is a good one-- open the case up? have you opened the case while it's running? What's it look like in there? Oh, any internal power cables not quite snug or maybe frayed?

Also, when you said you weren't "kicking the restart" do you mean on the machine itself or on the power strip? Have you tried a different power strip?

Get a mac mini. But run mac os on it. Then your problems are Really solved.