Internet Causing Comp Crash?

senordingdong

Sometimes, out of the blue, with no warning, my computer will just restart itself.
It does not give any notice, or any details about update installation or anything...it just shuts down and re-starts.

It doesn't seize or freeze, I don't get a blue screen either.
I've had a good feel of the computer after it happened one time and it doesn't seem to be related to over heating.
And upon re-starting, it doesn't run a sysyem recovery or scan or anything, and then works as normal, with no difficulties.
It just starts up as though I had turned it on for the first time that day.

Also, it only happens when I'm online, it never seems to happen when I'm working offline.

Anybody have any ideas why this is happening?

JonathanAnon

First thing to try is to try a different browser...

Google Chrome

Firefox

akamossie

well it seems that internet explorer is clashing with your OS, as suggested by JonathanAnon try different browser

senordingdong

Really?

The comp is running XP and I'm using IE?
Don't they go hand in hand?

JonathanAnon

It's generally best practice to ANY browser other than IE... I find it much more susceptible to spyware/malware/adware ... I recommend Firefox to all my clients, though I'm fast thinking of changing to Chrome...

Cuddlesworth

akamossie wrote: »

well it seems that internet explorer is clashing with your OS, as suggested by JonathanAnon try different browser

Since internet explorer is his OS this seems unlikely.

OP first figure out if you have actually been blue screening. If you machine is set to automatically restart then it will do just that, the blue screen being the barest of flashs to the eye.

Look in C:\windows\minidump. If it exists and files are there created roughly on the dates in which the machine restarted then they were in fact OS crashs.

senordingdong

Was about to download FF but I have to wait and scoure all my passwords and form etc...becasue I don't want to lose them when I change browser.

JonathanAnon

Download Firefox will not remove the passwords etc that you have "remembered" in IE..

senordingdong

cuddlesworth wrote:

If it exists and files are there created roughly on the dates in which the machine restarted then they were in fact OS crashs.

I checked and they are there, but now that we know this, what can I do?

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Download Firefox will not remove the passwords etc that you have "remembered" in IE..

Hmmm...I downloaded firefox and it asked me if I wanted to save all my forms etc... and I said I did.
But low and behold, they're gone!

Cuddlesworth

senordingdong wrote: »

I checked and they are there, but now that we know this, what can I do?

attach them here. I'll take a look at them.

senordingdong

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

attach them here. I'll take a look at them.

There are 22 of them. Do you need them all or just one or two?

Cuddlesworth

senordingdong wrote: »

There are 22 of them. Do you need them all or just one or two?

all would be handy. You can zip/rar them and then attach that here.

senordingdong

Don't know how to do that man.

akamossie

select all the files, right click mouse, and select add to zip or rar file

senordingdong

Thanks akamossie

Cuddlesworth

Your crash's are all over the place. Run a memory scan with Memtest and if that is clear update your bios to the latest version.

senordingdong

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Your crash's are all over the place. Run a memory scan with Memtest and if that is clear update your bios to the latest version.

I got the memtest and 'ran' it, but nothing seemed to happen.

How do I know if it has found anything?

Cuddlesworth

senordingdong wrote: »

I got the memtest and 'ran' it, but nothing seemed to happen.

How do I know if it has found anything?

Run tests 5 and eight continuously for about four hours. If errors come up you will see them.

senordingdong

Will do.

Thanks.