re: System randomly shuts down and restarts Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 10:13 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jacob6601 (2174 messages posted) Pleae do not go into the power supply. That can be dangerous. Check the manufacturers site for a bootable diagnostic cd. Run a complete system test. Go to the link to Disable the Automatic Restart on System Failure. Post back the error message (if any) verbatim. http://pcsupport.about.com/.../disautorestart.htm IMPORTANT: Test in safe mode whenever possible and keep the unit working -- Memtest, copy alot of files, play a large game, etc. Does it fail? Double click the error entries (after re-boot) in the log and then highlight and copy (CTRL-C) the description for posting here. Note the time of shut down and the time of the errors. Document what you are running whenever it happens and post back. Run Memtest over and over and over ... Written in response to: re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 1:46 pm) Responses to this message: re: System randomly shuts down and restarts (Lynn: Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 7:47 am) 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