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More info?)
thankyou all for your help.
One thing I have noticed is that the pc ram seems to be running at 50% at
idle.
The pc has 2 256 ram sticks.
All that is running is zonealarm security suite.
Is this normal or am I correct in thinking that this is high.
I am using xp home edition.
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Peter
"Maurice N ~ MVP" wrote:
> First thing you must do is disable automatic restart on system failure. Windows is having a serious problem and it has the default setting to restart on error. Change that setting and let's see if it will show the error exception and some text.
>
> Go to My Computer icon, do a right-click, then select Properties. Select the "Advanced" TAB and in the Startup and Recovery section (3rd block, near bottom) click the "Settings" button.
> At System Failure block, "Un-check" the "Automatically restart" line. Apply change, make clean exit.
>
> This will prevent a "reboot on error", and will also show (when you have Windows exception) the error code and its description.
>
> IF a STOP error occurs, write down its number and complete description and follow up on fixes.
>
> If Normal mode of Windows is still "re-booting" itself, reboot pc & tap the F8 Function key to select SAFE Mode, then do steps above.
>
> See Aumha.org's knowledge base on stop errors and keep it handy
>
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
>
>
> Next, take a look at the system's Event Log:
> Select Start button/ select Run , then type in
>
> eventvwr.msc<enter>
> -- or Go to Control Panel / Performance and Maintenance/Administrative Tools >Event Viewer.
>
> Review the sections and look for Errors or Warnings that match the time the event occurred. Double click---the information "may" give a clue.
>
>
> --
> Maurice N
> MVP Windows - Shell / User
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>
> Peter Venning wrote:
> > Can anyone help me. My pc reboots whenever the cpu is running at
> > capacity. The error report shows that there is a problem with a
> > driver. Problem is I dont know where to start looking.
>