Posted by guv on 10/03/06 15:48

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:32:40 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
<uknewsgroups@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Dr Zoidberg" <alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk>
>
>> Faulty PSU
>
>I was going to suggest similar. Could it be the CPU overheating too,
>possibly?

Yup, both of those would be my number one choices to check first.

I had something similar a few weeks ago. Turned out to be the hard
drive. I thought I'd lost it, but did actually manage to salvage the
drive. Luckily the system was on a seperate HD and unnafected.

>First thing I'd do is take the lid off and hoover out any dust that's built
>up. I'd not expect intermittent reboots like that are software related.

Yup, good advice, plus check the fans are working.

>Having said that, my XP install seems to be getting a blit flaky of late.
>I'm getting a few too many "windows must end this process" pop-ups, would do
>a clean install, but having had the PC for nearly 3 years I've so many
>utilities and things to reinstall I don't know what's worse, putting up with
>the crashes or putting the hours in reinstalling.

Funny you should say that. I just used XP repair pro on one of my
machines. I was staggered at the number of errors it found!


I could probably email this to you Kev. Maybe worth a try.

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