PC Cycles off automatically

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Snowballsmom

Suddenly our PC has begun cycling off automatically. It seems to be in a
perpetual "restart" mode and it returns to the "welcome" screen each time.
This usually happens when we leave the PC idle just for a few short minutes
and rarely if we are actively on the internet. However, if we are using
non-internet applications, it will cycle off in the middle of whatever we are
doing. Anti-virus software does not seem to be finding any problems. Any
suggestions?
 
Suddenly our PC has begun cycling off automatically. It seems to be in a
perpetual "restart" mode and it returns to the "welcome" screen each time.
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Two points:

1. If your computer is restarting spontaneously, you are presumably
blue-screening, and you are set to the default of rebooting whenever
that happens. It's a poor default setting and you should change it.
Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. On the Advanced tab,
click Settings under Startup and Recovery. Under System failure,
uncheck the box "Automatically restart.

Now when the problem occurs again, instead of restarting, you will get
the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back with those
details for more help.


2. This is much more likely to be a hardware problem than a Windows
one.
 
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