[Bucknub]

hmmm... well I haven't beed geting those blue screens anymore, however it is still randomly shutting down.

It just shuts down and reboots itself, anyone have any solutions, I've tried some of the things you guys have said, but I still havn't had any luck.

any ideas? oOo:

[PluginGuy]

I still think its on standby mode or has scheduled things, that's what happened to my moms pc after she got it back from the computer repair place.

[Arch]

did you scan for everything? backdoor trojans, hacking programs, etc. Kazaa has lots of those...

[Simo Häyhä]

Originally Posted by Arch

did you scan for everything? backdoor trojans, hacking programs, etc. Kazaa has lots of those...

he said his comp shuts down in the middle of them, i have heard of a virus called the bugbear virus that shuts down any virus scanning program automatically to keep itself alive.

[Unknown_Sniper]

if thats true. then well...Buckweed you etter be good at manual virus extermination. Search for bugbear and see if thats it

[redhawk_six]

Originally Posted by Gerard

Just try a reinstall instead of a format. Probably a driver or two thats fucked.

No, it's not a hardware problem, it's a flaw in XP, many XP users, including myself, are having similar problems. Prehaps do a google search for "Windows XP Troubleshooting" and see if any of the sites that come up have a solution.

[Bucknub]

I have searched google for solutions and cure.. and tried some stuff they said, but I still havent had any luck, and simo.. I have luckily scanned fully, without any shut down during a scanning. so I dont think it's that.

[Simo Häyhä]

EDIT: Simo, for fuck sakes, you should know better.

[quote="redhawk_six":4fe2f]

Originally Posted by BucKweEd

anyone know why my comp is radomly shutting down and rebooting... it did it once already whiel I was writing this post before.. its getting really annnoying.... im running WinXp Home if that helps... any help will be apprecaited..

Mine does that sometimes too, it comes up with this blue screen (like the one buck posted) saying "beginning dump of memory" or something like that, then restarts. It's completely random, not just when I'm using certain programs. I know it's not a virus, and I've heard of many XP users having this problem, yet no one seems to know how to stop it from doing this.[/quote:4fe2f]

the only time I ever saw a dumping of memory message was on a server at work, days before the hard drive died.

[Old Reliable]

why are you asking here? nothing but a bunch of faggots who dont know what they're talking about

http://www.motherboards.org

[Bucknub]

thanks old

and simo, I jsut read up on bugbear, and that has nothing to do with the problems im having

[Simo Häyhä]

heh...tried to help =]

[Bucknub]

ok, this is what happens when i try and format from start up

[img]http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/cannotformatcuzmycompsux.jpg[/img]

If you look really close... the words at the bottom are faded... cuz I had to hold down the "2" key so it would keep say what it was saying....

and it says


"Invalid file Specification"

and it wont format

what is a fella to do?

[Bucknub]

Anybody? cry:

[Simo Häyhä]

what do you want to do? install a new windows or partition your drive?