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Posted: 12/18/2005 9:44:57 AM EDT
About a week ago my computer started acting funny.  It gets left on all day, and about every 2-3 hours the damn thing will reboot all by itself.  I run windows XP and use firefox for my browser 80% and IE 20% of the time.  Have spybot s&d installed.  Any suggestions?  It's kinda annoying surfing the net and then all of a sudden the damn thing reboots spontaniously.
Link Posted: 12/18/2005 10:26:40 AM EDT
[#1]
Have you watched it reboot? Does it have a blue screen with white writing and then reboot?

Nick
Link Posted: 12/18/2005 11:01:42 AM EDT
[#2]
doublecheck the power cables form the power supply to the mother board.
mine got slightly loose onse and it would randomly reboot
Link Posted: 12/18/2005 9:01:07 PM EDT
[#3]
Maybe it's overheating. When was the last time you cleaned out the heatsinks?
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