My friend has a Compaq 5000(i know that's his problem right there). But anyway, it randomly restarts (not the right way but the double-control+alt+delete way) during any environment. Ummm...don't really know what info to include but if you guys need any more, just ask for it and I shall post.
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Jump to PostHmm... sounds like a bad problem. We need more information to diagnose it though. Operating System, amount of ram, processor, software that runs in the background... etc...
Jump to PostHeres my suggestion... 97.1% (that was a random guess) of all "out of the blue" restarts are caused by software programs coliding. My sugestion would be going to start -> run, and typing "msconfig" (without the quotes), and going to the startup tab, and unchecking anything that you don't really …
Jump to PostMaybe they're running on an AOpen motherboard ant it can't supprot all the work....
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I bought an Aopen Mobo a while ago, and on the back of the box was printed "Supprots DDR SDRAM"...the mobo was horrible. It kept failing and randomly restarting until it …
Jump to PostYou say that it gives this problem under multiple environments? What do you mean by that? Has the system ever ran Linux? Win2000, WinXP, etc etc?
A lot of times problems with random restarts are either related to bad memory (RAM) or the video card drivers. (I've experienced this …
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