[Gsaraco]

Hi, first-time poster here! I asked around an unrelated forum for a tech-support site, and they referred me to this place.

Here's my issue. I am running Windows XP Home Edition (Service Pack 2) on an AMD Athlon XP 2000, with 1.68 GHz and 768 MB RAM.

Starting a few months ago, my computer would occasionally reboot itself. But recently this started happening more frequently. Now I can barely keep the computer turned on... in fact I'm anticipating several random reboots before I successfully make this forum post.

Sometimes the computer will reboot DURING the boot process. Oftentimes it will reboot in a loop, several times, before successfully starting Windows.

Once in Windows, it seems like any given action can trigger a Blue Screen Of Death (which flashes by too quickly to read) and the computer reboots again. The BSOD's are pretty erratic. Sometimes I'll be using the computer for a half hour without any problems. Other times I'm barely on for a minute.

Things I've tried so far:

- reinstalled Windows XP
- formatted C: drive (I have a secondary drive that I use for storage, but the operating system and some other key programs are on C
- downloaded and installed the newest driver for my NVIDIA graphics card
- tried each of my three RAM sticks one at a time


I figure there are still too many variables to recommend a real "solution" at this point, but what are some ways for me to better diagnose the problem? If anyone could point me in the direction of some good diagnostic programs, or show me how to post error logs in this thread, I'd appreciate it!
Or if you just have any wild (or perhaps not so wild) theories as to why my computer might be constantly resetting itself, feel free to share those too!

[sammey19]

The following should do the trick! Go to start and click run, in the run box type sysdm.cpl go to the advanced tab and click settings under startup and recovery! Uncheck automatically restart, send administrative alert, and write the event to the system log. Then make sure that the Write debugging information is set to none! Then click ok and click apply

If you wish to also get rid of the microsoft error send in message things click the error reporting button and click disable error reporting then check but notify me when critical errors occure!

[Gsaraco]

ha, I actually just ended up taking an old system that was sitting around my parents house. Basically I replaced like 85% of the hardware in my setup and now everything seems to work fine. Thanks for your contribution!