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OK, I'll try it later.... Thanks moxnix...
Are working right now? The time now in Malaysia is 1.24 pm.....
Enjoy your surfing......
allenb1963, actually i'm using Norton utilities to maintain my PC.... almost every day i'm running this utilities... but this problems, i think this caused by hardware conflicts, but I already update all of my hardware driver...
?????Blank again...
u better scan for virus..........it may be W32 virus..........check.it ...out!
while yr system is running u press ctrl+alt+del and at the second tag....
u try to search W32................................try to find out.......otherwise the mother
****er will **** my account...............
Had a similar problem.....downloaded the latest drivers for my Video Card (Nvidia).
(Computer restarted when I exited HIGH graphic programs)
Windows drivers didn't work well. (what else is new ?)
Just my 2 cents worth
Oh come on GUY's..
WinXPee.. Restarting..!!? come on PLEASE..
Start with..
Opening System Properties from the controle panel..
Click on the Advanced Tab
in the Startup and Recovery, click on Settings..
If it hasn't already been done.. remove the bloody tick from "Automaticly Restart"
Ok
OK
Now our old friend BSOD will visit instead of giving you the "Restarts"
Now you will know if it is a overloaded PSU or a Driver/software problem..
besides updating the Video drivers, check that you don't have InCD and DirectCD installed and running as well..
Most of the other advice is sound.. but allowing BSOD to visit.. is a handy fault finding tool..
Also don't assume that every problem is a virus or worm.. just have it as a possability.
Cheers
firstly you should take und3ertak3rs advice and turn off the 'auto restart' and this will give you further information which you can use. However I suspect that your problem is similar to one commonly noted with VIA motherboards and nvidia cards... note that this problem is not restricted to this combo tho! If it is the same kind of thing there is no single fix all but you should try the following or a combination of all of them
1) update the graphics drivers - in many cases this is enough
2) check the BIOS and try opening the AGP aperture to either 128 or even 256MB - this sometime works
3) when in XP open up the video card properties and decrease the memory used for PCI texture for direct 3D as low as possible (5MB worked for me)
4) try reseating some of the RAM
5) if the above fails consider using a more powerful PSU as that seems to work almost all of the time (but of course it is an option that costs where the above 4 do not)
hope that helps
Z
I had the same problem till I replaced my CPU fan....
Orginial fan was to small!!!
YEs that right Highlander..
Especially true with the AMD XP CPU's those blighters can cook like ..like ahhh .....oh
like a nudists bum on the bonnet of a FJ holden on a summers Day.. (sry.. I'll clean it up... Like a nudists bum on steel Seat on a north North Queensland Summers Day.. now is that better)
the cpu will become very unstable at times..
Cheers
i had a problem similar to urs my computer would just restart when i opened, win in, or finished a program and sometimes when i logged in. im not sure if this is the problem but make sure u hav a cpu fan that can keep up with ur cpu, mine could but i had a virus rewrite my bios and it turned the cooling fan off so my processor would overheat wich inturn caused some damage to the cpu so that it will overheat even with a cooling fan (now i hav the side of my case and a box fan sitting there and it works great)
So go into ur bios and see if u hav a cooling fan setting and make it to default (just to make sure its not the fan) then run the games or programs that it messes up on if it restarts again then its not the fan im not entirely sure this is the reason it could be just about anything inside ur computer there powerfull tools but fragel as glass
I'm Using AMD Athlon XP.... but maybe next week i'm gonna change my systems to MSI KT4V-L, AMD Atlhon XP 2600+ , and Kingsmax 333DDR....
HAHA!! Open the side of the case and put a box fan next to it! That's great! I think I'll try that if I ever want to over-clock my comp. That's actually a really great idea, hexadecimal. Oh and a similar problem I've encountered/created was to make a shortcut to window's restart and configure it so it won't ask if you want to restart and I put it in the startup folder so 'doze would just keep restarting..... Don't think that'll help you though. I don't know if you mentioned this but have you tried upgrading your power source yet?