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computer restarts on its own
Name: louis hill Date: January 18, 2005 at 13:39:46 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: emachines 533 id
Comment:
I am having a serious problem with my pc. My computer runs extremely slow, even though I have 37.2GB of c drive space. Every time I try to run a system scan with spybot Search & destroy or F-Secure Anti-Virus 2005 my computer shuts down halfway through the scan. My computer reboots with the message (system has recovered from a serious error), and all of the desktop icons reappear. I am at a lose as to what the problem is. I cannot even scan my pc to find out what the problem is. Can someone assist me with this one? I greatly appreciate your support in advance.
Name: CrazyBass Date: January 18, 2005 at 14:01:09 Pacific
Reply:
Right click My Computer>Manage>Event Veiwer>System. Check there under the time it happened and see if it gives you any info.
Dell Dimension 4600i Windows XP Home v2002 SP2 Microsoft Office 2003 Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz 512MB DDR RAM 40GB HD
...If my computer's not happy, I'm not happy.
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Response Number 2
Name: ntengineer Date: January 18, 2005 at 14:01:30 Pacific
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Sounds like you might be having hard disk problems, not something software related.
If you go into My Computer, then check for errors by right-clicking on the drive, choose properties, then go to the tools tab, and choose "check now" under Error Checking.
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Response Number 3
Name: RobbieDickon Date: January 18, 2005 at 14:37:57 Pacific
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I would highly recommend going into safe mode from the f8 tap key on boot up.
Make sure logged on as adminstrator.
Run the antivirus test first then the spybot.
You could have an active virus or trojan running in the background that is causing those programs to freeze.
I would eliminate those problems first before looking at hardware as the culprit.
Good Luck
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Response Number 4
Name: per Date: January 18, 2005 at 14:58:59 Pacific
Reply:
Run CHKDSK /R from the recovery console. Note space between K and /.
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