computer keeps rebooting

sautegod

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• Sep 30, 2003

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My friends computer keeps rebooting every time he turns it on.
It dosen't even get to windows before it restarts. I told him a few things to try but I have to admite I don't have any exspereance with this. So I was hopeing that every one here had some advice

 

srs

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• Oct 1, 2003

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has he been overclocking? We need more details about what was going on PRIOR to the problems.

 

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• Oct 1, 2003

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it isn't overclocked, he hasn't changed any thing since he bought the computer, and that was awhile ago considering it's only a 1GH pentium. he has a geforce 3 card (I'm not sure what one ) that is also not overclocked. he said he hasn't been on it in a few weeks and when he turned it on the other day it kept reboting on him

 

srs

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Sounds like the PSU to me. Try pulling all non-essentials and see if it boots.

 

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• Oct 3, 2003

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How far into the boot sequence does it get?

 

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• Oct 3, 2003

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he told me today that now it's starting, but when they try to go on the inter net it crashes and reboots

 

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• Oct 3, 2003

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Tell him to run a virus checker. Maybe he never cleaned off the Blaster worm. Happened to a friend of mine.

 

srs

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Sounds like blaster to me as well. A search for *blast* will find it.

 

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Y

 

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You know I bet he dosn't even have an antivirus because that was the first thing I told him to do. I'll probally have to go over there and force him to install nortons or something like that.

he probally opens email attchments all the time with out thinking

 

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• Oct 4, 2003

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You could install Norton for him and burn him a CD with the latest updates. That way he could run it and let Norton clean it up.

 

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• Oct 4, 2003

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I'll making him a disk over the weekend and give it to him monday. he was telling me that he never opens email attachments then when I told him what attachments were he was like O mabye i do

thanks for the help