well i just started having this problem today..... every like 20 min or so my computer would randomly restart...... now im on my friends hd for now.... anyone know what the problem is?
I have this problem also, at first I thought it was an overheating problem, so i put in a new fan, but it still restarts/freezes up.
I had it loads of times.. and all my exp's are its a virus lol Reformat =P Thats what I do when Im too lazy to scan -.-
i also reformat when i am too lazy to scan... could be PSU, or perhaps bad RAM or a bad board or a bad CPU or a bad GFX card... here is an idea run a few stability tests liek trthos and se what happens.
most likely its a virus, but I could be wrong it could be other things mentioned above ^ but when I had the problem my comp restarted every 5minutes with out a warning yea, I just reformatted
lol i figured out its a virus... because i found when i was visiting my friend in the hospital my 8 year old sister was on for a couple of hours......
never let little kids on a PC unless they know what the heck theyre doing or at least without a guard -.-"
yeA u hAD WORM , sometime the worm stays in even if you reformat and then u have to get rid of manually by getting a patch or an update.
umm eformatting effectively removes ALL DATA off a partition. it would have to be one hell of a worm for it to be able to mantain enough data through a reformat to resurect itself and then run a VERY COMPLICATED set of alrogithms to recover it's own lost data... if ti was that advanced, i don't think a patch would do too much...
Hmm... I suggest you check out the Power Supply Unit. Most likely since it just randomly happening every 20 minutes or so. But, before replacing you're PSU, you should check the RAM for any types of oxidation and also check the RAM through the BIOS. In the worse case scenario, it's your PSU!
could be a very very very very tiny virus that is capable of fitting in the mbr or it could create another partition, and then if the user doesnt check, then could leave the new partition alone whilest they reformat and it wouldnt solve anything