OT-strange comp thing

Randallw · #1 December 30th, 2005, 06:04 AM

The problem has continued occasionally and I wondered if my computer was overheating. I looked inside the case (my friend put in a glass screen when he last upgraded it) and it has huge piles of dust. I guess it would make sense to have it cleaned. I guess next week I'll have it taken care of. It always seems to me problems pop up on fridays when I can't have it looked at the next day.

Suicide Junkie · #2 December 30th, 2005, 12:36 PM

Those rebooting issues are probably just blue screens of death. The newer windowses like to pretend it never happened and reboot instead. You should be able to turn off that "feature" in the control panel, so you can have a chance to figure out what it is crashing over.

TurinTurambar · #3 December 30th, 2005, 01:54 PM

The last time I had "spontaneous rebooting" it was some faulty video driver installed with a game.

My $0.02

Fyron · #4 December 30th, 2005, 04:01 PM

You can also see the error message that would have been displayed by the blue screen in the Event Viewer administrative tool. You can make these appear in the start menu in the task bar properties dialogue.

Ed Kolis · #5 December 30th, 2005, 04:17 PM

Have you checked the fans inside the computer? Just the other day at work I had to replace a bad processor fan which was causing a computer to constantly shut itself off... good thing we figured it out in time before the processor burned out!

Randallw · #6 December 30th, 2005, 10:55 PM

The problem doesn't happen if I'm just using the internet or low powered stuff (well ok it did reboot once when I was looking at a website), mostly it's when I'm in the middle of Star Wars Battlefront 2, which makes me think it's a heat thing. Anyway I have another suspicion I'd like input on. After that spyware trouble I had a few weeks ago my computer has a whole lot of anti-spyware things. Stuff like my AV software, then Microsoft Anti spyware, then SPysubtract, you get the picture. I read somewhere that having more than 1 AV program means they conflict with each other, might that be it?. I'd like to fix the problem as I plan to play DDO when it comes out and I don't want to be dropped in the middle of a dungeon with everyone else.

Randallw · #7 January 5th, 2006, 04:56 AM

After a week free, it happened again. I looked at the event log but have no idea what to look for. It has a record of the check it does when the computer was restarted without preparation but nothing just before that to say why it went and restarted.