My mates got a Fujitsu siemens scalleo p, he has a problem with his pc it keeps rebooting its self sometimes after an hour sometimes after 10 mins, more often than not its when he is playing games, any advice welcome, ps he has done a full reinstall of windows xp, Thanks
Random Rebooting
- Thread starter Harry5
- Start date
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2002
- Messages
- 25,753
- Reaction score
- 1,211
If you haven't changed any of the system failure settings, you should be able to see the error by looking in the Event Log. But a better long-term solution is to turn off the automatic reboot so you can actually see the error when it happens ... chances are it will tell you/us enough about itself to let you/us troubleshoot further. To change the recovery settings to disable automatic rebooting ...
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and Recovery dialog box.
4. Clear the Automatically restart check box, and click OK the necessary number of times.
5. Restart your computer for the settings to take effect.
Now when a fatal error occurs, you'll at least see it and it shouldn't cause an automatic reboot. You still have to sort out what's causing the problem, but that will get us to the next question quite nicely.
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and Recovery dialog box.
4. Clear the Automatically restart check box, and click OK the necessary number of times.
5. Restart your computer for the settings to take effect.
Now when a fatal error occurs, you'll at least see it and it shouldn't cause an automatic reboot. You still have to sort out what's causing the problem, but that will get us to the next question quite nicely.
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2003
- Messages
- 8,044
- Reaction score
- 849
Defo sounds like overheating
Have you checked all fans are turning and are not intermittant?
I would say its the GFX card TBH as if it was the CPU you would most certainly get an error beep from the onboard BIOS.
Is the system overclocked? The CPU/Memory and/or graphics card?
A full system spec would be usefull as to determine if even the PSU is powerful enough. Maybe he has updated GFX card and not enough power is going to that even.
Let us know please
Have you checked all fans are turning and are not intermittant?
I would say its the GFX card TBH as if it was the CPU you would most certainly get an error beep from the onboard BIOS.
Is the system overclocked? The CPU/Memory and/or graphics card?
A full system spec would be usefull as to determine if even the PSU is powerful enough. Maybe he has updated GFX card and not enough power is going to that even.
Let us know please