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Can a hard drive cause a system to
Name: Eagle16Nam Date: July 7, 2005 at 01:27:25 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: 466 MHZ Thinkpad 1400 262
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can a hard drive cause a laptop to reboot automatically? because anytime I'm doing a lot of things on my laptop it automatically reboots
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: July 7, 2005 at 01:59:09 Pacific
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Eagle, anything's possible. IMHO, doubtful. A far more likely culprit in my view is some sort of nasty. There's one about in particular that causes continual reboots. Seems it can be cleaned in safe mode if I recall correctly? HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
Name: Eagle16Nam Date: July 7, 2005 at 03:11:46 Pacific
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nah it aint spam , I run spybot and ad-aware se pro a lot , and I always have AVG Anti Virus loaded also there is ticking coming from the hard drive when ever there is rapid drive access
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Response Number 3
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: July 7, 2005 at 05:22:59 Pacific
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if it isn't a bot or virus (you might want to do an online scan at trend versus assume your AV is working), then it is more likely RAM or your PSU than a HD. A HD would generally lock up but not restart.
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