[Silence036]

As you might have guessed with the title, my other computer (I have 2) is having quite a time rebooting over and over again

(Both windows xp with service pack 2)

I didnt install any new software recently except the windows patches and xfire

But the very last thing I installed were those updates

this is what it looked like.

''Windows needs to shut down for the updates to be effective (...)
Computer will restart in (countdown from 5 minutes to 0)
Would you like to restart now ?

Yes restart now No restart later''

So I clicked restart later and didnt reboot. Then I turned off my computer about 2 hours later (not having installed anything new). So on the turn off button thingy there was the ''Updates available sign'' or something like that. I wasnt worried, since I knew there were updates that asked me the same thing a couple hours before this. I left it open for the night ( I clicked the shutdown with updates button) and went to bed.

This morning went I gt back to it to open it back to see if the updates were installed, Everything opens up as normal,

then ''bip'' the computer reboots on his own

So i turned it off and came back about 2 hours ago to turn it on again.
(it was about 3 o clock , if this matters)

same thing ''bip" (reboot) And I didnt even touch anything this time, I was going to get something to eat, came back, it was still on the initial screen wich you pick a session to log in from.

Then "bip" (reboot)

I wait for it to come back on, then about a minute after windows has started (after the loading screen) the thing reboots again.

I let it be for about 30 minutes while searching for answers on the machine located just 50 centimeters from it (the other computer).

I kept rebooting for all that time, and I just got the message it would work so I turned it off.

I came accross another forum (i dont know which) who said that rebooting without reason might be overheating or something else.

So i checked the Cpu temperature at start ( before windows loads)
21 degrees (celsius)

So my guess is it is not overheating

I tried something else which said to turn off auto-reboot ( so i can get the bluescreen which would give me answers)

So right click on my documents/ properties / advanced / Startup and recovery (settings) and unchecked automatically restart.

Then I click ok ("bip" reboots)

Alright so that didnt work.

(Wait for the computer to turn on again)
So I tried typing "shutdown -a" in the "run" box (alternate wayto do that)
I click ok, the command prompt appears for a second in the top of my screen , disapears, then "bip" reboot

Then at the next reboot, i saw that there was a password on my session (which isnt supposed to be I don't have a password)

"More rebooting" But no passwords this time
Then it rebooted again and i'm prety much stuck there.

Could anyone have spoofed a windows update thing and get it to trick windows into believing this is an update from microsoft ?

Any one has any idea what this might be?

[Silence036]

uhm teah nevermind i just installed service pack 3 and it seems to work fine...