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Answer» My XP has taken to spontaneously rebooting. It would occur about once a week but is now happening about twice. There seems to be no correlation between what I'm doing and the reboots, some of which occur when I'm not present. My XP has taken to spontaneously rebooting. It would occur about once a week but is now happening about twice. There seems to be no correlation between what I'm doing and the reboots, some of which occur when I'm not present. Go into the control panel / administrative tools /EVENT viewer ....... have a look and see if there are any errors listed ...... let us know dl65 Wow! Lots to respond to here. Thanks, everyone. I'll address them all. I run Norton's Firewall and virus checker. After the first couple of reboots I went to Trend Micro Online and ran a check through the, after mine showed nothing. Nothing detected there either. No new hardware, but lots of new software - so much so that I doubt I could pin it to any one of them. None, however, are things I would expect to FIND adware in. Will go take a look at that event logger mentioned. Thanks loads. GlennControl Panel>System>Advanced>Startup & Recovery turn off Automatic Reboot.NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE I got sidetracked by the above I found in the event viewer. It seems that outfit was given SPECIAL LOGIN PRIVILEDGES. (I run a server). Does anyone know who those people are?NT AUTHORITY is a user account that runs many of the services on your computer, shutdown for one. This is nothing to worry about. The BLASTER worm was could be reponsible for your problem, but if you've run scans it should have turned up by now. If you FOLLOWED Fed's advice, when the system fails you should get a blue screen with a stop code. It may be easier to troubleshoot with that code. Hope this helps.Thanks to everyone. Haven't had a reboot since I posted the problem here(grin). I did shut the auto reboot off as suggested. |
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