Rebooting for no reason
Tue, 02/19/2008 - 16:39
Howdy!
Can anyone tell me why my laptop with Vista sometimes reboots for no reason when I've been away from it for awhile? I will take a break to make lunch or take a phone call, and at first the screen will go black (energy saver), then after a while it will reboot completely. I do get an error message, "Windows has recovered from a serious problem, click here to view a solution", which I do, but then when I click, it will take me to the Microsoft site which reads that there is no solution for my problem.
I've run antivirus software, antispyware software, and while I've had some tracking cookies on my computer that I routinely delete (think i'm getting these when i download free blog templates), I'm clean, so I do not understand why my computer is pooching like this.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Raven Maven
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whats your ram size ? have run any larger game ?
some times RAM which is attached loosely can cause this type of failures :)
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Raj
Raj
Definitely there should be some hardware problem. Less probable that there are some driver failures - try to find if there are some errors before restart in Event Viewer log. I don't know maybe there are any testing programs- that tests computer hardware performance throughly?
i believe that's a low memory related problem.. but you never know with vista... its sucks big time.. i downgraded from vista to xp too...
I find that rebooting sometimes after i've been on the computer for a few hours just helps improve the speed. Also closing some of the many programs I have open helps too!