re: System randomly shuts down and restarts Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 12:52 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Primary reasons for shutdown and restart is heat build up, due to a build up of dust in the heatsinks, a fan that is not running at full speed or has failed, and/or a powersupply/hardware issue. Check the Event Viewer for errors or a message that Windows restarted due to an unknown cause which can be due to hardware or software issues. If you see no reference to why it shutdown and only see entries when Windows restarted, you have in all probability, a hardware issue that will require knowledgeable troubleshooting procedures and a check for a heat/PSU problem(s). Written in response to: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 12:00 pm) Responses to this message: re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 1:03 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Sat, May 16, 2009, 12:00 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (C K: Sat, May 16, 2009, 12:52 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Sat, May 16, 2009, 1:03 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (C K: Sat, May 16, 2009, 1:06 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Sat, May 16, 2009, 1:46 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:13 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Sun, May 24, 2009, 7:47 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Tue, May 26, 2009, 6:24 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Tue, May 26, 2009, 7:38 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Tue, May 26, 2009, 5:38 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Tue, May 26, 2009, 5:53 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Tue, May 26, 2009, 8:05 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Thu, May 28, 2009, 4:24 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Fri, May 29, 2009, 2:12 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Fri, May 29, 2009, 6:35 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Fri, May 29, 2009, 7:29 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Fri, May 29, 2009, 8:09 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 8:54 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Jacob6601: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 10:26 am) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (alex: Sat, May 16, 2009, 3:21 pm) re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Mozark: Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:22 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum