A mind of its own

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I get to fix all the PC in my family but this one really
stumps me. My daughter's new clone (I built) worked fine
for two days when I first had it going. But she took it
home and loaded wireless mouse and APC software and now
it just up and restarts whenever it decides to do it. No
messages, nada. Any ideas?
 
TominFL said:
I get to fix all the PC in my family but this one really
stumps me. My daughter's new clone (I built) worked fine
for two days when I first had it going. But she took it
home and loaded wireless mouse and APC software and now
it just up and restarts whenever it decides to do it. No
messages, nada. Any ideas?
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Could you please elaborate what you mean with this
sentence: "Now it just up and restarts whenever it decides
to do it"? Just up what? Decides to to what? The more
precise your problem description is, the more likely it is
that someone can help you.
 
/TominFL/ said:
I get to fix all the PC in my family but this one really
stumps me. My daughter's new clone (I built) worked fine
for two days when I first had it going. But she took it
home and loaded wireless mouse and APC software and now
it just up and restarts whenever it decides to do it. No
messages, nada. Any ideas?
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Open Control Panel|SYSTEM|ADVANCED tab|START UP & RECOVERY|SETTINGS and
UNcheck the "automatically restart" item. Then at least at error message
may give a clue to what's causing the problem.
 
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Could you please elaborate what you mean with this
sentence: "Now it just up and restarts whenever it decides
to do it"? Just up what? Decides to to what? The more
precise your problem description is, the more likely it is
that someone can help you.


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The computer restarts while any number of tasks are
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being done, ie... doing internet search on yahoo,
drafting a document on Word, reading e-mail on outlook.
Also, the wireless mouse occasionally stops working and a
regular mouse has to be used.
 
/[email protected]/ said:
No messages, nada. Any ideas?
The computer restarts while any number of tasks are
being done, ie... doing internet search on yahoo,
drafting a document on Word, reading e-mail on outlook.
Also, the wireless mouse occasionally stops working and a
regular mouse has to be used.
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To spot the error message open Control Panel|SYSTEM|ADVANCED tab|START UP
& RECOVERY|SETTINGS. Disable "automatically restart"...

Track down the error at the MS Knowledge Base, via the link below, of
perhaps here... http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
 
being done, ie... doing internet search on yahoo,
drafting a document on Word, reading e-mail on outlook.
Also, the wireless mouse occasionally stops working and a
regular mouse has to be used.
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Run msconfig.exe and use it to disable all non-essential
task until you find the one that causes your machine to
misbehave. In particular, uninstall the wireless mouse and
use an ordinary mouse fow a while. "Uninstall" means
"unistall its driver", not just unplug the receiver!
 
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