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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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[(Anonymous)]

I seem to remember Windows having some option which causes automatic rebooting if there is a problem. You can turn this off and then you'll get a blue-screen-of-death which, in some cases, gives you a hint of what might be wrong.

(After googling)

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/russel_02may13.mspx

Another page mentioned this:

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Disabling the “restart on system failure” feature may permit the exact cause to be isolated: Right-click on My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab. Under “Startup & Recovery,” click Settings. Under “System Failure,” uncheck the box in front of “Automatically restart.”
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