at the most randomly times, my computer will just out of no-where restart and i believe it could be a software issue or something and i have researched it over the internet a lot but i still have not been able to find a good answer on how to solve it. I get a blue screen when i uncheck the "Automatically Restart" option in the Startup and Recorvery Option of the Advanced tab in the My Computer's Properties. \n\nDoes anybody have any ideas on how to work with this problem or how to fix it? The computer seems to be working fine for the most part, the only issue is the inconvenience of the random restarting that occurs.
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You have to specify the OS you are using and its exact version
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After you unchecked the programmes in the startup configuration utilty & rebooted, the window you saw appear stating that you have changed the start up configuration is normal.\nYou should have put a tick/check in a small box in that window which you pressed OK to, to confirm that you do not want to see that window again. Regardless of this the programmes you unticked will not start up again (unless you re-enable them by putting back the check in the future).
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After you have tried the last suggestion you might want to try this:\n\nRemove any CD/DVD's and floppies also any USB devices then re-boot, if you are still getting the same problem re-boot again but when the PC is starting up (after the initial beep at the BIOS check at start) just keep tapping the F8 function key about once per second you will then be presented with a menu, one of its options will be to start in Safe Mode, select this and see if the PC will start into XP for you, if it does then it most likely means that you have an updated or corrupt driver that is causing the problem and you will need to do some detective work to find out what it is.\nIf you still can't get in to Windows then things are more severe, if you have a Boot Floppy and have an Anti-Virus scanner then check for infections.\n\nThere is a WARNING! I should give you here before you do anything else, if your PC has data that you have not backed up and is important to you or other users of the PC, then DO NOT do anything more, as without proper knowledge of what to do next you can LOSE ALL data, get the PC to someone qualified to repair it.
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This problem is known as Blue Screen Of Dead.\n====================\nYour error message define that you may have problem either with\nany driver/software.\n++ 1st )Do you install anything just before getting this message than pls reboot ur pc press F8 during boot\n  You will get the boot menu --select safe mode --press enter.\nNow remove the driver/software u install.\n2)  If ur computer not start in safe mode than pls open the cpu box & reconnect the RAM.\n3) If u still got the problem try reinstalling XP from ur cd
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Should start automatically but if you know when it stopped doing it roughly then you could do a system restore to a point just before you had problems.
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First off, open the program that's causing the problem and go to it's preferences and look for the option that says start with windows, or something similar.  This is the best way to do it.\n\nIf that doesnt work, goto the start menu, run, and type msconfig.  On the last tab is startup, uncheck the programs that are giving you the problems.
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unindstall reboot then reinstall, if it still fails could be virus checker or a conflict with the os ..\n\ndid it say what kind of error and/or a error number?
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turn on your computer when the blue screen appears press the f10 key several times. this will cause it to start in safe mode and take you to a restore site . first try restore settings and start "DO NOT HIT THE ADVANCED KEY" if you do it will restore your system to new settings and you will lose everything on your hard drive. \nAt times this may be your only choice . So before your do anything if possible save as much to disk as possible.
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A BSOD (Blue screen of Death) usually means that there is a hardware issue,though this can occur with a corrupt OS. Since you have already done a reinstall of the OS and the problem reoccurs chances are its a hardware Problem or a corrupt Bios.\n\nWith out knowing the manufacturer of your Laptop I can only hazard a guess that the Disk you have is a recovery disk. It should reconfigure your Laptop with its original (when you purchased it) settings and install the necessary drivers. In some cases there is a small partition at the front of the hard drive that has info stored from the manufacturer, also known as a Config Partition.\n\nRunning FDISK in DOS will show you if there is one there. If you ran a complete reformat of the entire HD you will wipe that as well. All is not lost, in most cases the Recovery disk will replace it.\n\nI would get the latest Bios from the manufacturer and reflash it. They should have instructions as how you can do it online.\n\n If that doesn't work then I would suspect a hardware issue. In some cases BSODs can be caused by overheating, a bad power supply, bad RAM or a bad Video card.
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heat may be the factor and is the most common causes for pc to restart if it is only when the game is running it will be eaither the ram or the heat if you pc restarts on its own without the game running and not many programs open sounds like you have a virus you may get a blue screen say dumping memory\n\nhope this helps
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I have recently gotten and old ibm and installed win Me and had really bad shutdown issues as well .These were caused by antivirus programs. I could not install any AV at all without problems.It may have been a virus in the computer itself since the hard disk was overwritten 7 times.There is a built in antivirus that you can turn on or off through the bios setup menu .To access press and hold F1 right when you see the ibm screen and hold until you see the setup menu .In the startup options you will see "Virus detection" if it is disabled turn it on,save your settings and exit and  your computer should boot normally if that was the problem.If not turn it off and reboot this time holding down the control key this will give you the boot menu options choose 'safe mode'and enter.This will prevent startup items from loading try a shutdown from safe mode if it works one of your startup items is causing your trouble.Start>Run>type msconfig,enter>choose selective startup.Click the startup tab then disable all entries there except one restart and repeat process until one of these makes your computer misbehave on startup or shutdown when it does you found your culprit.Currently using F-prot antivirus . It dosen't seem to be giving me any problems like the other ones did. Did you upgrade your video card software recently ? Sometimes the upgrade is worse than the old driver.Good luck!!!
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Sometimes you can get your windows to restart by re-installing windows again. I've seen this kind of freeze up before and by re-installing windows I managed to get the computer to fully load so I could back up my information before formatting and re-installing windows from the beginning. You could try continuing after getting it to fully load but if there's a virus or something your AV can't find it will just happen again.
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t could be several things that cause your computer to reboot on its own. Here's a few to check out....\n\n1. It could be a virus. Do you have updated anti-virus software running on your computer? Do you notice anything unusual running on your PC?\n\n2. Your PC could be overheating. Does your PC have adequate ventilation? Does it have very little dust on the inside? Is the Processor getting too warm?\n\n3. It could be misconfigurations. Meaning your PC may be blue screening (without you seeing it). Windows XP is notorious for blue screening and rebooting right away before you even know what happened. Did you install something recently that could be uninstalled? Did you add a new hardware component that's not functioning properly?\n\nHope this helps out a little....
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It can be on of the following reasons:\n1--if the restart happened only when connect to the Internet \nthat means ur computer is infected by a virus called blust.worm or sasar these type of virus connect ur system services to avoid restarting open the control panel ->Administrative Tools -->Services and find out the service call RPC then open the properties window in tab recovery  change the value first fail and second fail and subsequent fail to restart service ,now u can connect the Internet without restart then connect Microsoft website to get the virus fix \n2-- that may a hardware conflict that make ur computer restart check ur hardware drive\n3-- the CPU temperature may be over then u must check the it and check the fan and ur cooler efficient  \n4-- you may have a program which have an error that make restart
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I too was facing the same problem a month earlier. I tried many ways to solve it. Later I was completely bugged with the blue screen so I repartioned the entire disk and now things are back to normal.
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Uo oh...Sounds like a virus to me. If you don't have anti-virus, get it. Two good freeware programs are Avast & AVG. Your anti-virus must be up to date too, new viruses as created every day, your software has to know how to recognize these viruses. I agree with the last fellow too, it could be an overheat issue, but I've never seen a PC recover from an overheat lock-up.
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That all depends on what is causing the error.  Blue screens are not specific to one problem.  It could be one or more of many things.  As the above answerer stated, copying down the stop error code and using a search engine will usually generate good results.