I seem to be posting here a lot recently Well, anyways, new problem! So, i got my upgrades fitted at the weekend, and everything seemed to be going swimmingly until Monday, when i began to have troubles with my computer wanting to restart itself every 15 minutes or so. Today and yesterday it appears to be doing it every hour or so, but this is just a pain in the ass Anyone know what could be wrong with it? I can't run a virus scan because it will just restart, and it also restarted itself in safe mode so... Will i have to take it back into PCworld or something to get it sorted? Edit: Typo on thread name, should say Restarting Computer >_>
If you have admin on the computer, after the reboot, goto start>>control panel>>Administrative Tools>>Event viewer Look under the categories on the left through the entries on the right and look for red X entries around when the time the reboot happened. This is a good tool for singling out what's screwing up, if possible.
It just shuts down, no logging out, no 'Windows is shutting down', just goes blank and reboots The only red x's are on a few Service Control Manager and System Error, but there is a long list of these on the system before the problem began.
Yeah all kinds of errors happen all the time. I'd look into the 'system error' entries for more clues.
My guess is overheatting, or like the Duck guessed, a virus. What kind of upgrades? Possibly a driver problem.
OK, i have three possibilities in mind right now: overheating (mentioned), virus (unlikely) and dysfunctional RAM. The wireless card shouldn't be a problem, i guess. If you can, download memtest86 for free (link) and run it so you can see if there's a problem with the RAM. Even if it doesn't display any problems, the card could still be faulty so i suggest trying back the old card and see if the reboots continue. If not, the problem is the RAM. As far as overheating is concerned, well, maybe some tool that counts processor temperature etc. would be useful. And, yeah, a virus check would be ok. I hope that helps, i'm sure there are people with more knowledge on this stuff than me.
Cheers for the help guys I'm gonna try and get hold of the place who did the updates to see if they can fix whatever is wrong with it, as there doesn't appear to be anything i can do if it is a hardware issue, and i've tried everything else (no viruses, and it isn't overheating)
Could also be a power supply problem. Make sure the 1 GB RAM doesn't have conflicting timings with the old RAM stick you have. Also, for the wireless card, make sure you have updated all of the drivers, and get all of Windows updates. Did the guy put in a new CPU? Not sure how it would suddenly start overheating. How much is your Power supply? If you know how to open it up, open up your case and read the side label on the power supply.
*shakes head* If it was a good business, they should have tested your computer for stability before giving it back to you.
My friend bought some OCZ Performance RAM and got bad ram 3 times in a row. It was hilarious, he thought everything in his computer was broken because its VERY VERY VERY VERY unlikely you'll get bad ram that many times, but it happens.
That sucks. Very unlikely haha. Most of my problems [I build my own computers] are from motherboards.