My system is a gaming system, and has been set to stay on constantly. But
within the last few days it has been cutting off, and restarting overnight,
prompting me for my password when I wake up. When I log back on, it says
windows has recovered from a serious error of some kind. Please help, thanks.

Please post a copy of the Stop Error message.

I suggest you Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should
help by allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click
on the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
StartUp and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.

Enable automatic restart on system failure after you have captured /
copied and pasted the message in a further post here.

There will also be Error Reports in Event Viewer. Please post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools,
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event
Viewer. Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
complete with links into the message. Make sure this is the first paste
after exiting from Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

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"Serious System Error" <Serious System Error@discussions.microsoft.com>
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> My system is a gaming system, and has been set to stay on constantly. But
> within the last few days it has been cutting off, and restarting
> overnight,
> prompting me for my password when I wake up. When I log back on, it says
> windows has recovered from a serious error of some kind. Please help,
> thanks.