Intel Q9300 new with windows xp installed

[Guest Hopeful]

I have just purchased a new pc and added windows xp to it, upon updating sp3

was offered which I downloaded and installed.

Since installing the pc occasionally just shuts down and reboots for no

apparent reason, I'm seriously considering taking sp3 off.

I get no error message and no recovery message once it restarts, its really

strange it just crashed to a black screen and restarts, once restarted it can

be fine or crash out again almost immediately , there is no pattern or link

to any particular piece of software but there's barely anything installed.

[Guest Veerle]

Re: Intel Q9300 new with windows xp installed

 

On 10 jun, 08:54, Hopeful <Hope...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have just purchased a new pc and added windows xp to it, upon updating sp3

> was offered which I downloaded and installed.

> Since installing the pc occasionally just shuts down and reboots for no

> apparent reason, I'm seriously considering taking sp3 off.

> I get no error message and no recovery message once it restarts, its really

> strange it just crashed to a black screen and restarts, once restarted it can

> be fine or crash out again almost immediately , there is no pattern or link

> to any particular piece of software but there's barely anything installed.

 

Maybe a virus. Probably a hardware failure.

 

Do you have antivirus software installed? Try running a boot scan to

see if anything comes up.

If not, then it's probably a hardware failure. Your computer is still

in guarantee so take it back to the store...

[Guest Lisa]

Re: Intel Q9300 new with windows xp installed

 

Control Panel>System>Advanced, Under Startup and Recovery click Settings,

then under System failure uncheck Automatically restart. This will give the

BSOD which will have error codes for you to reference.

 

"Hopeful" <Hopeful@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:AC004FDE-6D34-4457-B873-4C8D0EAC38D0@microsoft.com...

>I have just purchased a new pc and added windows xp to it, upon updating

>sp3

> was offered which I downloaded and installed.

> Since installing the pc occasionally just shuts down and reboots for no

> apparent reason, I'm seriously considering taking sp3 off.

> I get no error message and no recovery message once it restarts, its

> really

> strange it just crashed to a black screen and restarts, once restarted it

> can

> be fine or crash out again almost immediately , there is no pattern or

> link

> to any particular piece of software but there's barely anything installed.