Windows 7 Ultimate:reboots automatically!!!

[srinathtk]

Hi All,

Thanks for all your support previously.

Recently I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my system.

I generally use this for some gaming and more for the movie downloads. Due to this the system will be running almost for 20 hours a day. I leave the system on during the nights while it is downloading.

I noticed that without any action from my side, the system restarts automatically. This happens even though I am not doing anything but some downloads are happening in the background.

I had the same set of hardware earlier also with Windows XP SP3 (which is still there in the other partition as dual boot) but I did not see this problem with XP. I guess this should be some issue with the OS itself.

Can any one kindly help me resolving this please?

With regards,

Srinath
India

[glc]

First, determine if it's rebooting due to an error. Control panel, system, advanced, startup and recovery, uncheck restart on error (my exact terminology may not be right, I'm going by what you do in XP). This way, instead of rebooting it will freeze on the BSOD which you can read for clues.

[jdeb]

follow glc's suggestion and clues may be found in event viewer.

you can also go into the event viewer and see if there are any critical errors.

the event viewer can be found in the administrative tools snap-in.
Start/ control panel/ security/administrative tools/ event viewer

Just thought of another thing. You could check the reliability monitor as well.
Start/ control panel/ security/action center/
click on drop down arrow next to maintenance, click on view reliability history and you view by days or weeks. If you know the last day this happened then you should have a red x in there. Click on the red x and look down a little further to see the source. I have used this feature when I do a repair and the user can't describe the problem clearly.