My computer is... messing with my game, and everything
Gwill:
Any kind of random rebooting is a serious symptom of something very wrong.
If you're lucky it's just malware, and it can be removed.
KatEnigma:
It can be a symptom of anything from a weak power supply to overheating to a Bios needing updated to malware to hard drive failure to a bad stick of RAM to unstablle electric feed from the wall. Or a combination of any of those. Basically, all you can do is try to eliminate them one at a time. It took me 18 months to finally fix my occasional reboot problem- I'd changed: 2 PSU's, 2 UPS's, 1 video card,1 hard drive, updated the Bios, checked the RAM multiple times, watched all temperatures, etc. Finally, the last Bios update seems to have solved it. (As long as I don't go to the TS2 homepage via Firefox- if I do that, my (dual core) processor maxes out and I crash. Even via IETab, it's forcing me to use IE only. Apparently Maxis can't even code Flash)
kuronue:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 May 08, 17:16:57
This definitely sounds like some nasty malware. Try going to http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm and click on the big blue button that says "Scan your PC now". It will take a good long time to do, but that bugger catches almost everything...including some malware I had right after getting my current comp a couple years ago (which nothing else would diagnose).
Avast gave me a virus alert from their online antivirus scan.
Lorelei:
I have had numerous issues with my lappy.
Today, just for shits and giggles, I woke up to find my laptop mostly black-screened with an "Operating system not found" message. After having a mild heart attack, I shut it down, whipped out my 98 to try and websearch for the cause (it was only left alone, unconnected to the net, nothing running, for three hours while I passed out from fatigue...midterms suck), and, on a hunch, restarted it.
It has since been sweetness and light and sugar and spice all day.
I suppose it has to completely ruin my day at least once a month in order to make sure I properly appreciate it and back up my data. *ugh* >.< Stupid Windows machines. Gah.
The problem? Either something slipped in when Trend Micro's trial expired, my anti-shitware programs are fighting again, or a virtual drive program spazzed out. Apparently it decided to reboot or run a diagnostic or defrag automagically during the three hours it was not being babysat.
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