Help identify reboots

Bossk128

Bossk128

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Hi. the inlaws PC is playing up, with spontaneous reboots on the odd occasion. PC soft reboots with no errors (desktop -> bios straight away), often with a "Windows has recovered from a serious error" message. After a while, it would not boot up- I assumed this confirmed my suspicions of a dodgy power supply. I replaced it.

Now with a new PS it boots up fine etc, but stil random reboots. Things I've tried to track problem:

Memtest is great for 4hrs plus, no errors.
Installed SP3 (I was kind of trying to get it proper broken here) all fine
Scandisk on reboot, all fine.
AV or Spyware run will trigger a reboot at random times, but no spyware/virus reported (of course, the scan doesn't finish though)

I think it may be a software issue- spyware/virus, or Windows system errors?

Or a HDD on the blink?


Any ideas please folks?


Thanks.
 
Check the event logs to see if there is anything obvious in there.

How old is the hardware?

Might need a spring clean if dusty inside and causing overheating.
 
Oh yeah, hardware would be useful: :)

It's an older Socket A platform- Athlon 2400+ (I think it's at 2.2.GHz), 1 Gb Ram, Asus A7n8x Deluxe.

All the heatsinks are clean, and temp on CPU is about 42C no matter what gets thrown at it (aftermarket Akasa HSF).

It's my old system, I'm a bit rusty.....

I'll have a look at the event logs when I get in tonight.
 
I did a windows repair and replaced the ATA cable, and it works fine now. I'm afraid I'm not sure which was the culprit :o

However, after patching back up to SP3, all is well!

Thanks for the ideas.
 
I've got the same mobo and this started happening to me after overclocking the cpu, installing new ati drivers and playing Warfighter for a period of 10 mins or so! :(
Going to have to revert back to old settings me thinks...
 
Have you unticked the Automatically Restart on System Failure option?

It's in the Startup and Recovery section of System Properies, might give you an error message rather than just rebooting.
 
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