COMPUTER AUTOMATICLY RESTTING (HELP!)

[Rapsoldier101]

MY COMPUTER CONTINUOUSLY RESETS ITSELF AT RANDOM TIMES...MAYBE AROUND EVERY 10-15 MINUTES AND I NEED HELP! AND ALSO CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH INSTALLING A HARDRIVE

[Darkblade44431]

Maybe somethin u did accidentally, made it so that it does that, look in your control panel, i used to have the problem of my computer shutting down instead of having a screen saver, but i just had to change that in the control panel.

[Rapsoldier101]

NO ITS BEEN LIKE THAT I BOUGHT IT USED OFF EBAY ITS A GOOD COMPUTER BUT IT JUS RESETS ITSELF AND I HAVE TO INSTALL THE HARD DRIVE MYSELF. LIKE THE HARD DRIVE TRAY OPENS BUT IT DOESNT READ DISCS

[Darkblade44431]

switch the disk changer thingy...
and...stop typing in caps, why r u pissed off at me! thats what it implies.
such as this example:

No caps:
Ok, god.

CAPS:
OK, GOD.

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no caps implies the comparison to the person ur talking to and god.
caps implies that ur pissed off at the person that ur talking to.
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lol..sorry, i was bored.

[Darkblade44431]

Open the computer up and check the fan.

My old computer fan got moved just a tad bit and then it started overheating and just shutting off all the time.

Just make sure it's not loose

i agree, i think that would work.

[Robbie G]

My first thought was a virus is doing it. I'd make sure to run a few scans. If you need some good programs I can point you in the right direction.

But yeah might be overheating like Chet said. I check your fans to see if they are working or possibly buy some more?

[shady6]

CAPS LOCK=CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

on-topic: In all honesty i've seen spyware infect a computer to the point of resetting it randomly.

And, as it's been stated, check the heat of it (eg. fans)

[DelinQuent]

i had this problem because i had an uneven amount of RAM sticks. for some reason i couldn't have 3 ram sticks. i could have 1,2, or 4.

i also had this problem when i didn't have the drivers for my dvd burner installed, it kept going to a blue screen and restarting.

and a virus also caused this problem for me another time.

sometimes my computer does this now when the cable for my hard drive gets nudged.

by the way, your cd/dvd drive isn't called a hard drive, the hard drive is what holds all the data on your computer

[Robbie G]

i had this problem because i had an uneven amount of RAM sticks. for some reason i couldn't have 3 ram sticks. i could have 1,2, or 4.

i also had this problem when i didn't have the drivers for my dvd burner installed, it kept going to a blue screen and restarting.

and a virus also caused this problem for me another time.

sometimes my computer does this now when the cable for my hard drive gets nudged.

by the way, your cd/dvd drive isn't called a hard drive, the hard drive is what holds all the data on your computer

Good Idea. You could try each ram stick individually?

When I was putting mine together into start with all 4 gigs..

[Rapsoldier101]

yea i only have two ram sticks, how do i put a third in cuz the guy who sold me the computer sent me a 3rd ram stick but i dunno how to install it, and ill open it up, look at the fan and run some virus scans. but i also need to kno how to install the cd drive so it can read c.d.'s