Blue screen error / computer restarting itself

December Flower · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:35 am

For quite a while my computer has been restarting itself at times, completely at random. Someone told me to uncheck 'Automatically restart", and now I get a blue screen instead, and then I have to restart the computer. This happens completely at random, but it seem to happen frequently when I'm playing games, which is annoying as fuck.

If someone here knows how to fix this problem I would be very grateful.

Ness · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:32 am

Eyesore is pretty good about this kind of stuff.

stuartn15ted · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:37 am

December Flower wrote:

For quite a while my computer has been restarting itself at times, completely at random. Someone told me to uncheck 'Automatically restart", and now I get a blue screen instead, and then I have to restart the computer. This happens completely at random, but it seem to happen frequently when I'm playing games, which is annoying as fuck.

If someone here knows how to fix this problem I would be very grateful.

I got that shit. I've writen down all the error messages but they're different everytime. Its not like its one programe or a piece of hardware thats doing it. really annoying.

PyroMan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:32 am

December Flower wrote:

For quite a while my computer has been restarting itself at times, completely at random. Someone told me to uncheck 'Automatically restart", and now I get a blue screen instead, and then I have to restart the computer. This happens completely at random, but it seem to happen frequently when I'm playing games, which is annoying as fuck.

If someone here knows how to fix this problem I would be very grateful.

You know your pc may be overheating. It happens if your case is small and everything is cramped in it and of course if your fan is a cheap junk like mine. When you play games the pc temperature rises much faster for some reason, I know because the same thing happens often to me too. But my knowledge of computers is that much so it's all a supposition. Good luck in fixing the problem or if you can't just stop playing games. :lol:

leee · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:13 pm

1. Virus, run a full virus scan first the entire drive.

2. Harddrive is corrupted. Run a chk disk on your drive and see if it fixes anything, maybe the first shut down did something to it. My computer, right click, properties, tools, error checking

3. Hard drive is bad

4. Bad memory module

5. Over heating......maybe but usually you get some kind of temp alarm. This is very rare unless your heat sink or fan cage is broken or something like that.

6. Back up everything, down load your drivers and wipe the drive and reload everything. If you bought a store rig you should have an autorecovery tool that can do this a lot of different ways.

You didn't say what OS this was? blue screen of death is usually Win2000.

Desolate Ever After · **Joined:** Sun May 14, 2006 8:12 pm **Posts:** 112

I had a problem similar to what you're describing some months ago. It kept restarting on it's own and eventually it just wouldn't go past the start up screen and the only way I could get into it was in safe mode. Turned out MSN 8.0 that I had just installed was causing the problems.

Have you installed any new programs lately? If so, uninstall them and see if that fixes the problem. And definitely run that virus scan like someone else suggested.

Metalhead_Bastard · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:23 pm

Desolate Ever After wrote:

I had a problem similar to what you're describing some months ago. It kept restarting on it's own and eventually it just wouldn't go past the start up screen and the only way I could get into it was in safe mode. Turned out MSN 8.0 that I had just installed was causing the problems.

Have you installed any new programs lately? If so, uninstall them and see if that fixes the problem. And definitely run that virus scan like someone else suggested.

MSN PWN

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:52 pm

PyroMan wrote:

December Flower wrote:

For quite a while my computer has been restarting itself at times, completely at random. Someone told me to uncheck 'Automatically restart", and now I get a blue screen instead, and then I have to restart the computer. This happens completely at random, but it seem to happen frequently when I'm playing games, which is annoying as fuck.

If someone here knows how to fix this problem I would be very grateful.

You know your pc may be overheating. It happens if your case is small and everything is cramped in it and of course if your fan is a cheap junk like mine. When you play games the pc temperature rises much faster for some reason, I know because the same thing happens often to me too. But my knowledge of computers is that much so it's all a supposition. Good luck in fixing the problem or if you can't just stop playing games. :lol:

Yep, if it happens while playing games the PC is shutting down because it's overheating.

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