Spontaneous Reboots

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Kevin M

When I first installed Windows 2000 on two separate
machines (different hardware, different manufacturers,
some different installed applications), everything seemed
to go pretty well for several months. Then, sometime
within the past month or so, both of machines have started
acting up, spontaneously rebooting at various, apparantly
random times, including sometimes when I am not actively
running anything on the computer at all. Now I'm starting
to run into some corrupted files on my hard drives as a
result of restarts occuring right in the middle of files
being written to disk, for example. If this didn't start
happening on two different machines at approximately the
same time, I would have suspected intermittent hardware
problems.

The only changes that I can think of which have been made
to both of these machines within the relevant time period
are the installation of various patches from the Windows
Update web site, primarily critical updates.

Does anyone else suspect any of the recent updates (within
the past month or two) causing problems on their systems???

Thanks,
s/KAM
 
Sorry, I should have mentioned that of course I have
already heard about that virus, and it clearly is NOT the
problem. I run both a hardware firewall and Norton
Antivirus on my machines, and have also manually checked
them for the blaster virus by following instructions on
one of the anti-virus web sites. Also, my problems really
started *before* the blaster virus hit the web.

Also, my machines may run for many hours or even days at a
time before they reboot, or may instead reboot again
within a few minutes. I can't seem to find any pattern.

Never the less, I may check again one more time, but I am
99.99% certain that this is not the problem.

Thanks anyway. Any other ideas?

s/KAM
 
The only spontaneous reboots I have seen (other than with
infected PCs) relate to PCs that run WinVNC.
 
Kevin M. wrote in
Sorry, I should have mentioned that of course I have
already heard about that virus, and it clearly is NOT the
problem. I run both a hardware firewall and Norton
Antivirus on my machines, and have also manually checked
them for the blaster virus by following instructions on
one of the anti-virus web sites. Also, my problems really
started *before* the blaster virus hit the web.

Also, my machines may run for many hours or even days at a
time before they reboot, or may instead reboot again
within a few minutes. I can't seem to find any pattern.

Never the less, I may check again one more time, but I am
99.99% certain that this is not the problem.

Thanks anyway. Any other ideas?
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Failing RAM might. But 2 systems seems to indicate an environmental
issue. You did the RPC/DCOM patch I presume.
 
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