Mystic LLama's computer keeps self-soft-rebooting on its own as Windows XP starts. It wasn't properly hooked up to the internet, at first, but for some reason about 1 minute after the desktop appears, it restarts.

Does anyone have any idea why it would do this?

Try using a bootdisk.

Is it doing it itself, or is there an error message that says it will shut you down in so many seconds and starts counting down? If the second, then it's one of those worms that were out and about in the summer of '03. At least some version of it

i pushed disable auto restart on system failure and that fixed it... should i be concerned now?

well, as far as I know, that feature restarts the computer instead of giving you a blue screen of death. So technically, Windows should be giving you a ton of BSODs instead of rebooting, but if its working fine, well, then thats strange.

*shrug* Nobody's put a batch file with the restart command in your start-up file have they?

no one else touches my computer

How do I do that? I want to start a task so that my computer restarts every morning at 3:00, that way I don't have to do it. The only problem is getting the tasks to work, and some sort of command to initiate it.

Hmm. Maybe in Task Manager, there's some way to have it auto-restart. There are tags you can put in a shortcut, let's say, that will do just that. I can't remember how, but there are ways

There's usually an auto start function in the bios.

Mine kept doing that too, this week, but I found a fix.

The problem was a windows XP "cricitcal update". Did he update windows lately? I did, and then afterwards my computer wouldn't come back on. Did the update three times, and I am sure that was what caused the crash.

Boot up in safe-mode, and restore for a saved restore point. That was the only way to get mine working again.

Did you try the task scheduler?


As for the problem, it's a virus, I had it a few summers back. The Windows updates will fix it.

And just what would I schedule?

As far as I know, it only schedules programs, not command lines, and even if it fif, the whole point of my question was to find out what it was..