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Why did my computer do that and restart on it's own?

Postby Jaltus-bot » Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:53 am

Ok, I went to load AOL. It went to do it's little connection thing. The was a box like one that pops up when it has trouble connecting. It said something about TCP or TCIP or something. Quickly, the computer flashed a bright blue screen with white text written over most of it. When I hardly got the chance to glance at it, it shut down and restarted on itsown. What happened?
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Postby ThaKladd » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:12 am

You use win xp?

I have experienced the same thing. If it does not happend often, it is not a problem. probably something wrong with the network... because it said something about tcp ip, and then windows reacted in an overprotective way... Bil Gates is funny that way ;)
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Postby Jaltus-bot » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:24 am

Things like that almost never happen and I think I am on Windows XP.
Thanks. I wonder what would trigger it.
When I feel blue, I start breathing again.

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Postby ShiroiHikari » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:23 am

that's very strange....have you run a virus or spyware check lately?
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:40 am

im not sure that it may be spyware. Stuff like this happened to me a lot on ME, and sometimes on XP. Is it a possibility that it could be a driver issue? My computer has driver issues with it's wireless USB adapter.
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Postby ThaKladd » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:27 pm

more detailed analysis by me

When it has happen with me I think it's often a complication in the windows registry. The white text on the blue back says somthing like "failure in registry entry 0000035399003000XXX446XXXX"(and a lot more than that) kind of stuff... If the problem is only once I think windows fixed it, or it was only this one time the failure happened. but if it happend all the time, the program has written in some wrong values or something in the registry that makes windows alert *danger* - I think it can be fixed by 1. instaling the program again 2.updating windows 3. manually fix the registry or 4. use an alternative program :)

Maybe it can be something wrong with the hard drive surface, so you could try to run a defragmenting tool to check it. Viruses dont do thing like that, I think, neither do spyware.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:13 pm

regristry errors? I don't know if this will help but

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

this is regcleaner, to get rid of old registry keys
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Postby ClosetOtaku » Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:33 pm

I've been running XP on two different machines for a long time, and have never had this problem.

My immediate thought is "virus"; my second thought is indeed the registry. Without actually playing around a little with the particular machine, though, it's kind of hard to say.

Have you Googled the issue? If it is indeed common, there is probably some Internet commentary on it.
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Postby blkmage » Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:06 pm

Ever have the Blue Screen of Death on older versions of Windows?
Windows XPs version of the BSOD is simply automatically restarting.
If you don't like that, there's an option to turn it off in System Properties.
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