My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:00 -0700, msbock
wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

Just ONE: post your question to an XP group. This is for Vista.

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

"Nonny" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:00 -0700, msbock
wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

Just ONE: post your question to an XP group. This is for Vista.

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sorry, thought there may be a windows (professional expert) in the group
with enough knowledge to help in all windows. (Guess Not) I am on a vista
and when search for help I found this community.

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:14:01 -0700, msbock
wrote:



"Nonny" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:00 -0700, msbock
wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

Just ONE: post your question to an XP group. This is for Vista.

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sorry, thought there may be a windows (professional expert) in the group
with enough knowledge to help in all windows. (Guess Not) I am on a vista
and when search for help I found this community.

There are probably some doctors and lawyers in this group as well.

That doesn't make it OK to ask for medical or legal help here.

You don't know XP or vista!
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Nonny" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:00 -0700, msbock
wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

Just ONE: post your question to an XP group. This is for Vista.

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

"Nonny" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:14:01 -0700, msbock
wrote:



"Nonny" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:00 -0700, msbock
wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

Just ONE: post your question to an XP group. This is for Vista.

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sorry, thought there may be a windows (professional expert) in the group
with enough knowledge to help in all windows. (Guess Not) I am on a vista
and when search for help I found this community.

There are probably some doctors and lawyers in this group as well.

That doesn't make it OK to ask for medical or legal help here.

I thought we were talking about windows and computers, but hey if you need a
doctor, go for it !!!. Its a free cyber world & I can see you need help. . As
far as a lawyer you probably should ask for one of them too. Idiot

Disregard that fool!
Right at Power on tap F8, and go into Safe Mode.
Use the UP arrow to select SM from lst of options, then hit ENTER.

Once there, save your Data, using Nero Express, or copy to a Flash Drive.
Then look for problems!
Startright-click My computerHardwareDevice Manager see what has a ?
beside it
Then, startProgramsAccessoriesSystem Tools system restorePut back in
time before problem

If nothing works, time to see a comp Tech in real time!
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"msbock" wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

msbock wrote:

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?
Just ONE: post your question to an XP group. This is for Vista.


I thought we were talking about windows and computers, but hey if you need a
doctor, go for it !!!. Its a free cyber world & I can see you need help. . As
far as a lawyer you probably should ask for one of them too. Idiot

Accurate diagnosis, maybe you should be a doctor

Anyway, Mick is right. We had this with an XP machine at work that also
by chance happens to run our payroll. The Pros could not fix it so they
bought a new machine. I did manage to fix it but only by installing a
new drive and and a retail copy of XP (The OEM CD was of course
missing). However the drive is also working fine so something must have
damaged the original install. IOW there seems to have been nothing wrong
with the machine or the drive, at first we suspected hardware, obviously
it wasn't.

I don't know what else to tell you except to expect the worst and hope
for the best, we did get a BSOD but it went by too fast to really see
much. If you can reinstall XP on another drive and then put this one
back as "Slave" or whatever you probably can get your data back.

Also, clean out the heatsinks / fans etc but if you use compressed air
do not let the fans spin, they will be damaged and may damage other
components electronically.

Personally I think an auto update may have clashed with something in our
case, the machine has a UPS so power outage not likely the cause.

It goes without saying that everybody here "Used" to have XP and many
still do, so disregard the initial rude reply.

If you get absolutely stuck for something to read the drive with you can
use a Linux Live CD (Doesn't install anything or damage what is there)
so you could transfer data to another networked machine if you have one.
I have used Ubuntu for this a few times.

msbock wrote:
My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?


Repair or replace the defective hardware causing the issue. Without
more details from you, it's nearly impossible to determine which
component is failing or over-heating.


--

Bruce Chambers

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did you think to clean out the insides of the computer. using canned air is the usual way.








"msbock" wrote in message ...
My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down
and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down,
Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I
do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk
top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried
everything I can think of. Any suggestions?