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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?

Comments

[magicmarmot.livejournal.com]

Could be power-supply overheating issues. You could try cleaning out teh fans of dust and stuff, or a new power supply.

[lio.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[soylentmean.livejournal.com]

Or CPU overheating - I've seen quite a few dead CPU fans cause computers to do the random reboot thing.

Also, try installing Ad-Aware or its ilk to check for spyware - it can often wreak havok upon a poor computer system.

Good luck!

[yaaren.livejournal.com]

doubly agreed.