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    phooey Posts: 40, Reputation: 1
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    Jul 8, 2009, 12:28 AM
    sudden, extremely random, recurring restarts.
    hell therees. My computer lately has been restarting at random points of time. Getting kind of annoying and luckily haven't lost anything important yet.
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    Jul 8, 2009, 03:57 AM

    It sounds like you may have a virus of sorts. Have you done a virus check on your computer lately? Whaty virus program do you use... if you have done a scan and its not saying there is a virus do you have a system reset option.. my laptop has a system reset which resets my system back to the last day it was known to be working proper and you can even choose the date
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    Jul 8, 2009, 07:26 AM

    Any changes that either happened or that you perhaps made to your computer around the time that the problem started; particularly any Software or Hardware that you installed or setup.

    What OS?
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    phooey Posts: 40, Reputation: 1
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    Aug 14, 2009, 09:36 AM

    I use avg, ill do one right now, I don't think anything came up in the last one. And I have windows xp.
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    Aug 14, 2009, 10:40 AM

    Any changes that either happened or that you perhaps made to your computer around the time that the problem started; particularly any Software or Hardware that you installed or setup.

    You can always do a system restore back to a point when this was not happening

    System Restore
    -Go down till you see
    How to use System Restore to restore Windows XP to a previous state
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084
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    binx44 Posts: 1,028, Reputation: 88
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    Aug 14, 2009, 11:35 AM

    I agree... system restore I've had to do before too...
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    Sep 6, 2009, 08:48 AM

    System restore didn't wrk, said no changes have been made since. Maybe I am too late? But a recent development is when it restarts it sez it is going to check my hard drive for consistency. Makes me think something isn't hooked right inside my computers organs?
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    Sep 12, 2009, 02:02 PM

    Even thought this post maybe old but
    It could be a virus
    A bad driver
    A hard drive becoming defective or last but not least a faulty PSU (power supply unit)
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