Computer restarting

[J T]

You aren't seeing the blue-screen at all?

Does windows restart normally or does it give you a prompt?

[Harrison]

Sounds like it could be faulty ram. If you have more than one stick of ram installed, try removing it all and putting on stick of ram into a currently unused slot and booting up, then running the applications that cause the reboots. Also try running memtest to test and stress the ram to see if it can find any errors.

[J T]

When I had bad RAM it would bluescreen and give error messages along the lines of

IRQ not less or equal (most common)
something about pagefile.sys
pfn list corrupt

[Harrison]

Those errors can also be caused by having the wrong ram settings in the BIOS. A system I used to have that used an Asus motherboard and Athlon 64 CPU had that issue, and when i looked in the bios settings it had somehow reset itself and lost the settings, so the ram speed and timings were completely wrong. Correcting them completely fixed the issue.

[Stephen Coates]

I am not getting any bluescreen. It just restarts immediatly.

I will take the RAM out and have a fiddle with it.

I haven't used the Windows very often. I normally used Linux which seems to run fine and hasn't reported any problems.

BTW, can someone deal with the spam?

[Stephen Coates]

I have tried each stick of RAM individually in each slot and it makes no difference.

I will post a photo of the BIOS settings when my camera's batteries have recharged.

[Bloodwych]

Have you tried running these executables in safe mode? To rule out driver issues?

You could also try an OS on a CD, like Ubuntu or BartPE to see if the stability issues are related to your hardware. Or image your current install using Driveimage XML (or ghost or similar) and do a quick re-install and see of the issue disappears. Then you can go back to your original install from the image. Problem is, if your hardware is playing up it might corrupt the drive image, so that would be a last resort.

If software is not the issue, things like this are usually either ram (test with memtest x86) or PSU related. Bad PSU's can cause strange problems.