sorry.. this will b short cos i dunno how long my pc will stay on...
recently my pc has been restartign alot... no virus.. and ne way i formated to see if that would solve it but it didnt, ne ideas

Unexpected lockup & reset are good signs of either "bad" RAM or overheating or PSU overload.

Have you added any hardware recently? Overloaded PSU can become overheated and may cause unexpected reset problems.

Have you added new RAM recently? It's not necessary that the RAM is bad but some boards are not as forgiving as others and they don't run perfectly with generic RAM.

Your case may not have good ventilation. Any changes in ambient temp recently? If the case doesn't have good cooling, recent changes in ambient temp (to the high side of the scale) will cause overheating.

Can you tell more about your system (CPU, motherboard...)?

agree with above,but would add try reseating graphics card.
although my first port of call would be power supply if u r using athlon sys with extras,especialy dvdr and ddr

no "new" hardware... i have reinstalled all the printers etc after i formatted but it was playing up b4 i formatted and i had not installed a new piece of harware for some time.

no new RAM

theres been no major changes in the room temperature, and the vents have room to breathe in the casing

specs: celron 1ghz (biggest mistake i ever made) 512 MB RAM, win XP, 60 GB HDD


thanks for ur help,

any more will b greatly appreciated

cheers
jeremy

EDIT

theres a 16*10*40 CDRW
and a DVD drive
and floppy

If none of the above have helped then go to msconfig and go to selective start up and uncheck a program restart and so on until it stops restaring.
If it doesent restart frequently then you could be in for a tedious time but your programs on startup are usually a cause of problems like this.

it hasent done it yet so far 2nite.. and ive been on an hour (touch wood)

but its likely to restart on me soon

no jo0y ^^^^^^

In Windows XP, the default setting is for the computer to reboot automatically when a fatal error occurs.
If you haven’t changed any of the system failure settings, you should be able to see the error by looking in the Event Log. But a better long-term solution is to turn off the automatic reboot so you can actually see the error when it happens—chances are it will tell you enough about itself to let you troubleshoot further. To change the recovery settings to disable automatic rebooting:

Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
Click the Advanced tab.
Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and Recovery dialog box.
Clear the Automatically restart check box, and click OK the necessary number of times.
Restart your computer for the settings to take effect.

then when it happens again you,ll proberly get bsod and you,ll see the error


HTH

ta :D

thanks 4 taking hte time to help me

ive done that
ill let u know what happens

it stopped for a few days, now its tarted again

the guitly file is

gisdnpnp.sys

its in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers

can ne one help?

try replaceing the file thats playing up with this one
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/partenaires/Mes%20documents/djinn/Disk1/

cheers, ill let u know what happens

I had the same problem, it was my hdd which was casueing the problem...hope that's helps :tup:

:( that didnt work

the file i changed ****ed up my modem, so i had to resinall the drivers

ant & dec b more specific plz

plz help... this is gettin beond annoying

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Jersey I understand the frustration, but no flaming please.
Darkman.

When XP finds a driver or software running that is causing problems, it will try to either disable the driver, or stop the application. It does this by shutting down and restarting.

The following programs should be removed or update.
Easy CD Creator
Direct CD
GO Back,
Norton Utilities
Zone Alarm
AOL6 or before tend not to work.

Once you have removed or update all of these things, run Scandisk and defrag go to My Computer/right click Local disk(C)/click properties/ Tools/ (Disable any anti virus you have running in auto protect mode i.e. NORTON, before you run defrag or scandisk)

Reboot.

Place XP cd in the CDROM drive and select "install XP" then select "upgrade" this will replace your system files with new versions but preserve your data.

Hope this helps.

apoligys Darkman but u know y i did it...


hothi- i did that... still the same prob :(

ne one got ne more ideas?

I agree with Van Nugent
Unexpected lockup & reset are good signs of either "bad" RAM or overheating or PSU overload.

If you're getting unexpected reboots at random times with different software running then bad RAM or an overheated system are a good bet.

If you have a lot of RAM try pulling one of the sticks out & swap them around, you may be able to narrow it down to a single stick.



As for the dummy (pacifier?) spit, no worries M8.

Might sound crazy but have you checked the reset/power switch ?

Make these modifications in BIOS:
Disable AGP Fast/Write
Set PGP OS installed to NO or False (depends on MB and BIOS)
Disable System Acceleration Mode.


Go to the System applet in Control Panel, select the advanced tab, and click the Settings button under the Startup and Recovery heading. Under System failure, un-check automatically restarts.

To check why your system had a failure, check the Event logs for any error messages. You can find the Event Viewer in the Administrative Tools, or by typing eventvwr in the Open box from the Run command.

The file gisdnpnp.sys you changed but modem stop working, so you had to resinall the drivers.

Now can it be the modem that the problem maybe update the drivers or pull it out of you computer and see if the computer work without it.

Replace power supply with a UL Listed 300-watt unit or get it changed with a different computer.

Hoping something will work.

Darkman- i have 2* 256.. if the others fail i will try (as it involves ripping the p apart)
john80y- yea but thanks 4 the suggestion
hothi- im about to try it

edit just did all of what u said hothi, it is the modem causing the probcos it only happens when i am on the net... ill let u know how i get on

rite... ive tried all of those, the prob is one of tedrivers for the modem