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System rebooting - on its own
Lately, while online, my screen would suddenly go black and the system would reboot. A virus scan showed no viruses. There seems to be no pattern of this activity. I could be online for a couple of hours or minutes. There were no ''flags'' warning of coming trouble. And I've experienced sluggish, jerky mouse pointer movement. I have also experienced website sound files playing ''broken up'' a bit at times. I have plenty of ram. Using IE6 and DSL; the DSL speed is still good. Ideas on this? Thanks. Bob |
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System rebooting - on its own
You may need to prove whether its a heat/hardware issue rather than a WinMe
issue. If heat related then the inside of the box may need a good clearout. (A lot of dust gets sucked into box due to the fan(s) and can reduce the cooling efficiency) Boot using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and let it continue to the DOS Help page. Leave it running for several hours and see if it still reboots. If so, then it's a problem with your PC and not with WinMe. If not, then boot into Safe Mode (F8 or Ctrl keys at boot-up) and leave it running in that mode for a few hours and see if it reboots. If so, you may need to disconnect external items of hardware to see if you can isolate it. Mart "rdbr" wrote in message ... Lately, while online, my screen would suddenly go black and the system would reboot. A virus scan showed no viruses. There seems to be no pattern of this activity. I could be online for a couple of hours or minutes. There were no ''flags'' warning of coming trouble. And I've experienced sluggish, jerky mouse pointer movement. I have also experienced website sound files playing ''broken up'' a bit at times. I have plenty of ram. Using IE6 and DSL; the DSL speed is still good. Ideas on this? Thanks. Bob |
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